I came home this evening and looked in my tank, as I always do. Noticed that my 24" RTC/TSN looked full. I asked my wife if she had fed him, and she said no. I passed it off as nothing and went on with my evening. I was sitting here just now and glanced over at the tank and noticed that the outlet nozzle for the Fluval 405 that I installed on the tank yesterday was missing. I rapidly scanned the tank to see if it had got sucked up against either the one of the FX5 intakes or one of the power heads in the tank. Nope. Put two and two together and realized that the reason the fish looked full was he had eaten the outlet nozzle. Not sure exactly how he got it. I know it was attached securely, but I am sure that it is my fault, somehow. The next question, how do I get him to spit it out? I know that cats will "purge" if they eat to much. Or am just SOL with a dying fish on my hands? Stupid canister filters. Please help me! Oh yeah, this is my first post, but I have been trolling for a while, and have to say there are alot of good help and ideas!
TSN/RTC X ate filter outlet nozzle
- Thread starter woffman5
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wow thats pretty crazy.... im not sure how but this is how i see it
1. leave him 95-100% die (unless he finds out he cant digest it and throws it back up so leave this to the cat experts)
2) push his stomache like you see on those snake chanels and try to make him regurgitate
1. leave him 95-100% die (unless he finds out he cant digest it and throws it back up so leave this to the cat experts)
2) push his stomache like you see on those snake chanels and try to make him regurgitate
Nine times out of ten they will just regurgitate stuff they swallow that they shouldnt, be aware though that as soon as he does to do a good water change as the stomache acids can cause problems if left.
I wouldnt try and force it out like suggested above I can see that doing more harm than good.
Hopefully someone else will comment, but if it was me I would just leave it.
My friends RTC swallowed a very large algae magnet, one of the big ones, you could see the square of it in his belly, couple of days later he just regurgitated it, have read/heard/seen this happen with other things as well, its a pretty common thing tbh.
I wouldnt try and force it out like suggested above I can see that doing more harm than good.
Hopefully someone else will comment, but if it was me I would just leave it.
My friends RTC swallowed a very large algae magnet, one of the big ones, you could see the square of it in his belly, couple of days later he just regurgitated it, have read/heard/seen this happen with other things as well, its a pretty common thing tbh.
oops,,, i hope it comes out ,, i would leave it to come out naturally ,,
it would be interesting to see anyone that has had strange objects swallowed to post the out come in this thread
it would be interesting to see anyone that has had strange objects swallowed to post the out come in this thread
stevenrox;3142908; said:
where are you getting your figures from? I really hate it when some one does that, there is no way you can back up your claim since Most of the people with Big cats on here have had them swallow SOMETHING that they shouldn't and the advice is always the same (Because it works) Do nothing!!!! Cats do this sometimes... they are egar eatters and somes times they get ahead of themselfs... you might if you pushed the number have 5% that will need some sort of "help" dealing with getting some thing that they swallowed up and that help is more of a surgery than anything else (speaking from personal experience)Never try to push something out of your fish... simply not going to be a good situation as you'll do far more harm than good
he will... good advice!Columbian Shark Catfish;3143202; said:
Hayabusa;3144662; said:
another one thats an the ball, good advice 
My personal issues have been with Plastic plants and other things (but they never have been a problem for my cats to bring up again).jasoncambs;3144886; said:
The plastic plants seem to be hell however since they are able to be put down in one direction easy but spread when coming back up which causes your cats to basically go nuts trying to "choke" these up, which with mine eventually there was far to much weight loss and I had allowed him to try on his own for almost a month ( first couple of weeks I didn't know what the problem was till I noticed some head shaking and something down in his gullet, pulled him out to see a plastic "leaf" down there).
Once I saw it wasn't coming out any more than he could get it out I had to use some needlenose with another "tool" that I made to go in after it and he pulled through fine... over a foot later and growing like a weed
i have had a good look at the my tank and removed the stones ,thermometer,small bits of wood, arowana lol etc that are small enough to swallow,,
however , i am left with the ehiem clips that sit beteen 16mm tube and the sucker pads,, any ideas on keeping these secure would be good ,sucker pads wont come off the glass easy but the pipe pulls out the clip easy and then the clip can be pulled from the sucker pad ,
so maybe cable tie the clip to the tube or something ? why dont eheim do a clip that latches together behind the pipe in a nice click action ,
however , i am left with the ehiem clips that sit beteen 16mm tube and the sucker pads,, any ideas on keeping these secure would be good ,sucker pads wont come off the glass easy but the pipe pulls out the clip easy and then the clip can be pulled from the sucker pad ,
so maybe cable tie the clip to the tube or something ? why dont eheim do a clip that latches together behind the pipe in a nice click action ,