Check this out guy when I first got him:
I have never seen a fish recover from anything like this before in over a decade of fishkeeping. It has always been some irreversible damage of some kind due to water parameters and death occurred within 12 hours.
I knew something was wrong and I couldn't wait for him to acclimate normally, so I immediately started adding my tank water to give him something to cling to, and then released him within about 5 minutes.
He fluttered to the bottom like a typical dying fish, and flopped around while gasping and breathing fast, then wedged up into some rock where my tiny yellow watchman goby hangs out, then disappeared.
Now here he is...seemingly normal!
You guys ever seen anything like this?
I figure he's got a solid 60% of survival at this point...maybe even higher..thoughts?
Jawfish nearly DOA
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I have never seen a fish recover from anything like this before in over a decade of fishkeeping. It has always been some irreversible damage of some kind due to water parameters and death occurred within 12 hours.
I knew something was wrong and I couldn't wait for him to acclimate normally, so I immediately started adding my tank water to give him something to cling to, and then released him within about 5 minutes.
He fluttered to the bottom like a typical dying fish, and flopped around while gasping and breathing fast, then wedged up into some rock where my tiny yellow watchman goby hangs out, then disappeared.
Now here he is...seemingly normal!
You guys ever seen anything like this?
Jawfish full recovery?
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I figure he's got a solid 60% of survival at this point...maybe even higher..thoughts?