Stuck raphael catfish

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calichai said:
This has happened a few times with my Rafael and driftwood. I usually place the wood in a bucket/tub with a inch or so of water and the hole facing downward but bit submerged. They will usually free them self after a few minutes. I tried to remove one by hand along time ago and received a nasty cut. Lesson learned.
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?? If he could do it in the bucket, then it wasn't "all that stuck". It would come out when really needed in the tank too.

IME (and it is my impression from reading around) is that fish get stuck extremely rarely. Next to never. I mean stuck so that they will die not being able to free themselves.

In the vast majority of cases, like 99.9%, they should have been left alone. I've been wrong more than once before but such is my current conviction.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
?? If he could do it in the bucket, then it wasn't "all that stuck". It would come out when really needed in the tank too.

IME (and it is my impression from reading around) is that fish get stuck extremely rarely. Next to never. I mean stuck so that they will die not being able to free themselves.

In the vast majority of cases, like 99.9%, they should have been left alone. I've been wrong more than once before but such is my current conviction.
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Hopefully your right, but when i tryed to pull it out, push it out from the front, it didnt move at all. Earlier today it starting trying to swimming, but got nowhere. However another one swam into the rock, and was right next to the stuck one, and when i got closer to the tank, it swam away. However the one thats stuck is bigger than the other one.
 
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