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Jumped out of tank..

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christine

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Hi everyone. I'm not a member of the forum yet (I tried but something went wrong with my password).

Today I went over to my tank and couldn't see one of my axies. Then I looked in an empty bucket that was next to the tank and he was in there! I was horrified and thought he was dead but we put him back in the tank and he is alive!

I have no idea how long he was out of the tank for. Will he be okay? It must have been quite a fall as well as being out of the water. His gills were all curled up but now they are uncurling.

How terrible.
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I usually have two glass lids on the tank but I smashed one by accident a while ago and didn't bother to get a new one cos I thought it wouldn't matter... I'm getting a new one now. The water is probably about 5cm from the top of the tank and he must have really jumped to get out.

Why would he have done that? I just cleaned the tank yesterday with the syphon...perhaps he didn't like me doing that or something...

Anyway...thanks for your help in advance
 
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christine

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Thanks Joao,

I used the stress coat and he seems to be doing okay. His skin has gone back to a normal colour (went very orange) and has stopped peeling. His gills are totally uncurled now.

It must be the week for axies jumping out of tanks because I just noticed Shane's post as well!

Strange.

Hopefully he'll be okay now, as long as he doesn't have any internal injuries from the fall.

Thanks for your help.
 
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