WOW my RB Peacock just freaked while i was doing a water change, Jumped out of the water hit the glass landed back in the water.

Started spaziming, then stopeed moving oh no i got a floater, left it for a minute came back to minor ventral fin twitches, put her in a bucket.

One minute later no change opened an air line on a gang valve and held it under the gills for 3 minutes.

Fish is breathing with no motor controll, two minutes later fins are working but no station keeping one more minute of air and she is station keeping.

Seems fine but ill leave her in the bucket for a good half hour.

Ben

Just ried pushing her with the airline good visual and good motor response

Seen that a few times. Joys of cichlids & active species. :roll: I knock to the head is a knock to the head too, no matter what the animal.

It will either pull through or it won't. Not much you do except seperate from the others. {like you have done}

Frenchy

Hey ben,

Close call, can you explain what u did with the airline?

Jeff

Just placed the bubbles under the gills for several minutes to provide as much o2 as possible

Female swimming around seems sweet as, the tank dynamics have changed over night, the electra male very dark very dominant

thats good.

:bounce:

Glad your Peacock is doing fine... I had one of Jurapari do that once, he was one KOed fish, luckily he was ok

Mekhaela

I had a large silver shark do this but it ended up going to a "toilet surf"

My big silver shark did that last week.... thought he (it ?) might pull thru but after a coupe of days i noticed he was still swimming aimlessly, and eyes going all cloudy and bulging out I decided to put it down on saturday...

Couldnt work out how to do it at first ( since my freezer isnt big enough to put such a big load of water in...) so i ended up putting him in a bucket of water and adding a whole tray of ice... but from the lack of fight i got when i netted him, he was a gonner....

So my tank is looking a wee bit empty @ the mo - time to get my butt moving and get my 5footer sorted....