My 4" Bichir decided to take a leap out the tank, not sure how he did it. When I was doing a routine scan of the tank, something was off, I didn't see him anywhere and as I was continuing to scan, a thought ran through my head, why waste time looking in the tank when I could be scanning the floor instead. Sure enough, he was directly underneath the tank on the floor. I just happen to have a tub of water next to me so I proceeded to pick him up and he felt sort of clamy/dry and I dropped him into the tub of water. He wasn't moving so I kicked the tub and in a few seconds he moved. I left him in for a while, hitting the tub every now and again just to see he was alive. I then put him back into the tank and he's back to normal. Not sure how long he was out of the tank.
Time wasting on search for missing fish in aquarium
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i had owned one of these guys he was 16" and jumped out and was out for 2 hours and hes still alive
Awile ago when i had a silver aro about 12 inch or so, it jumped out while i went to the lfs real quick for some crickets for him and my archers, any way came home and he was GONE...... But i quickly noticed wiggling on my floor, he was still kicking, scooped him up and droped um in the tank, i did have to help him swim for a min, and pick hair off of him, but he lived like a champ only got a little infection looked like a pimple on his lip. Glad i got home at the time i did lol.