New Rescue Sun Cat

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thefredpit

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Today while at my LFS the manager gave me a Sun Cat that had come in with a lot of damage to all his fins since I work with the local fish rescue I put him in a 20 Long hospital tank with a seeded sponge filter I wanted to know if there was anything special to do other than pristine water?


Oh this video was taken right after he was added to the tank before I put in a place for him to hide and the sponge filter
 
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Awesome.I think I read your mention of that fish rescue in another thread,any chance of talking more about it and a few photos?
 
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I would keep the tank's light off or make them subdued, at least until it gets healthy. Bright lighting induces stress, particularly in newly introduced fish. Also, try to keep a good distance from the tank, most of the time. People hovering close to the tank will induce stress.
 
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Well the rescue is DFW Fish Rescue It was started by a friend of mine last September. She had just gotten into fish and had a betta in a small tank well she started doing research on bettas and realized how her small setup was wholly inadequate and corrected it. Well while doing her research she realized there was a big need for fish rescue so within weeks of getting into fish she started the rescue. She had tanks at her house and one of the local shelters, well fast forward to February and a friend of mine got a commercial space and offered to let me put tanks in there for my bristlenose and mystery snail breeding, well he showed me where I could put tanks and realized it would take me forever to get enough tanks to fill the space so I offered to share the space with the rescue and within weeks she had filled the space. Any fish we take in is made healthy then is adopted out for free unless there is any cost in getting the fish healthy, in that case the fish is usually adopted out at whatever we had to spend to make the fish healthy.

This photo is a couple weeks old and we have set up several more tanks since then
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here is a news story done shortly after the rescue was set up
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Woman-Starts-DFW-Fish-Rescue-450732033.html
 
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xraycer said:
I would keep the tank's light off or make them subdued, at least until it gets healthy. Bright lighting induces stress, particularly in newly introduced fish. Also, try to keep a good distance from the tank, most of the time. People hovering close to the tank will induce stress.
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I'll turn the lights above him off also then corner this tank is in doesn't have a lot of traffic
 
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thefredpit said:
Well the rescue is DFW Fish Rescue It was started by a friend of mine last September. She had just gotten into fish and had a betta in a small tank well she started doing research on bettas and realized how her small setup was wholly inadequate and corrected it. Well while doing her research she realized there was a big need for fish rescue so within weeks of getting into fish she started the rescue. She had tanks at her house and one of the local shelters, well fast forward to February and a friend of mine got a commercial space and offered to let me put tanks in there for my bristlenose and mystery snail breeding, well he showed me where I could put tanks and realized it would take me forever to get enough tanks to fill the space so I offered to share the space with the rescue and within weeks she had filled the space. Any fish we take in is made healthy then is adopted out for free unless there is any cost in getting the fish healthy, in that case the fish is usually adopted out at whatever we had to spend to make the fish healthy.

This photo is a couple weeks old and we have set up several more tanks since then
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here is a news story done shortly after the rescue was set up
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Woman-Starts-DFW-Fish-Rescue-450732033.html
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Awesome sauce! If such a place was near me I would offer to help out with anything that I could.Thanks for sharing.
 
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I see no inflammation on the sun cat, hence, I think for sure clean and aerated water is enough at this point.

I am happy to see rescuing colleagues at work!
 
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