Well this morning my Oscar wanted to become a bird and flew out of his tank... First before I get to the story let me begin by saying I love this Oscar more now than I did before. I posted here before about this Oscar and his hard life...
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72887&highlight=oscar . I rescued this Oscar from very horrible conditions. He was living in a ten-gallon tank. He now has a new home in a 55 gal. Before I rescued him, he was going to die...... Ok now here is the story... This morning I was awaken by my hubby running into the room and said that the fish was on the living room floor. I screamed and told him to put him back into the water. For the life of me, I do not know why he just did not put the fish back in first, before he woke me. I guess he panicked. Well after I screamed, he ran into the living room and put the fish back into the tank. Hubby said the fish had to have been out of the water for over 10 minutes, because his alarm clock went off and he heard a noise coming from the living room where the tank was, also my little dog was barking and licking hubby to wake up. He did not go investigate the noise because he thought it was something else, and he thought the dog was barking at maintenance that was working outside our window. Therefore, he hit his snooze button. The clock alarm went off again 10 minutes later and he got up for work. He was putting his clothes on in the living room when he saw the fish give one last hopeless little flop. That is when he woke me up. When he put the Oscar back in, the fish sank to the bottom of the tank. He was covered in carpet fibers, lint, hair and trash all over his body. He was taking little breathes and then breathing very hard. He just laid there in shock. There were so many scratches and laceration all over his body. Parts of his fins were torn and a huge chunk of flesh was missing from his head. Both his eyes were very cloudy. He had flopped about ten feet away from his tank and flopped on and around the stuff that we had on the floor. About an hour later after being back in his tank, he began to hover in one spot. He was not swimming around, just hovering and his eyes were still cloudy. Then a couple of hours later his eyes began to clear up a little and he started to swim more. 12 hours later, he is now swimming and eating like nothing happened.
I really thought my oscar was going to die. I went out of my way to try to save this oscar in the beginning and for him to die now would have been a tragedy. I spent alot of money trying to save this fish. I guess I should have spent more money to buy a lid. I bought the tank used and it did not have a lid, just the lights. That was my bad. :duh: But I never thought the fish would try to jump out. He never jumped out when he was in a 10 gal. tank.....and that tank didnt have a lid........ Go figure......... I tested the water after he jumped out to see if there was something in the water parameters that made him crazy, but all of the parameters were very good. So, it was not the water. I guess I just have a crazy fish....... WELL I LOVE this fish more now because of his will to live.
Anyone ever have there fish jump out of the water and stay out for that long???? :dive:
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72887&highlight=oscar . I rescued this Oscar from very horrible conditions. He was living in a ten-gallon tank. He now has a new home in a 55 gal. Before I rescued him, he was going to die...... Ok now here is the story... This morning I was awaken by my hubby running into the room and said that the fish was on the living room floor. I screamed and told him to put him back into the water. For the life of me, I do not know why he just did not put the fish back in first, before he woke me. I guess he panicked. Well after I screamed, he ran into the living room and put the fish back into the tank. Hubby said the fish had to have been out of the water for over 10 minutes, because his alarm clock went off and he heard a noise coming from the living room where the tank was, also my little dog was barking and licking hubby to wake up. He did not go investigate the noise because he thought it was something else, and he thought the dog was barking at maintenance that was working outside our window. Therefore, he hit his snooze button. The clock alarm went off again 10 minutes later and he got up for work. He was putting his clothes on in the living room when he saw the fish give one last hopeless little flop. That is when he woke me up. When he put the Oscar back in, the fish sank to the bottom of the tank. He was covered in carpet fibers, lint, hair and trash all over his body. He was taking little breathes and then breathing very hard. He just laid there in shock. There were so many scratches and laceration all over his body. Parts of his fins were torn and a huge chunk of flesh was missing from his head. Both his eyes were very cloudy. He had flopped about ten feet away from his tank and flopped on and around the stuff that we had on the floor. About an hour later after being back in his tank, he began to hover in one spot. He was not swimming around, just hovering and his eyes were still cloudy. Then a couple of hours later his eyes began to clear up a little and he started to swim more. 12 hours later, he is now swimming and eating like nothing happened.
I really thought my oscar was going to die. I went out of my way to try to save this oscar in the beginning and for him to die now would have been a tragedy. I spent alot of money trying to save this fish. I guess I should have spent more money to buy a lid. I bought the tank used and it did not have a lid, just the lights. That was my bad. :duh: But I never thought the fish would try to jump out. He never jumped out when he was in a 10 gal. tank.....and that tank didnt have a lid........ Go figure......... I tested the water after he jumped out to see if there was something in the water parameters that made him crazy, but all of the parameters were very good. So, it was not the water. I guess I just have a crazy fish....... WELL I LOVE this fish more now because of his will to live.
Anyone ever have there fish jump out of the water and stay out for that long???? :dive:
