Angelfish With Thread In His Mouth

[nessy123]

I came home today and noticed my angelfish seems to have a piece of thread coming out of his mouth. I have had him for about a week now and he is in a 40 gallon bow-front tank with a red tailed black shark, one platy, one sword-tail and a golden wonder killifish. He seems to be swimming fine but keeps moving his mouth. I tried to get it out of his mouth but its stuck pretty good. What should I do? Do I leave it and see what happens, or try to get it out again? I haven't fed him yet today so I don't know if he is still eating.

 

[Caprichoso]

I had a similar thing happen to me years ago. I caught the fish in a net and slowly pulled the object out. Note: I didn't raise the net out of the water, just high enough so that I could remove the object. After that, the fish was fine. It is a bit of a risk and will stress out the fish but I was desperate and didn't know what else to do.

Good luck

 

[AllAboutSwords]

I personally wouldn't mess with it yet. Go ahead and feed the fish and watch it to see if it can eat. I'd worry about pulling on it because you don't know how long the piece of thread (or whatever it is) is - it's possible that the fish has the rest of it digested. If it is still there tomorrow, and the fish isn't eating, intervene.

 

[nessy123]

I had a similar thing happen to me years ago. I caught the fish in a net and slowly pulled the object out. Note: I didn't raise the net out of the water, just high enough so that I could remove the object. After that, the fish was fine. It is a bit of a risk and will stress out the fish but I was desperate and didn't know what else to do.

Good luck

I netted him and used some tweezers and pulled it out I thought I was going to hurt him at first but I gave it a go and he is much better now.

 

[Caprichoso]

I had a similar thing happen to me years ago. I caught the fish in a net and slowly pulled the object out. Note: I didn't raise the net out of the water, just high enough so that I could remove the object. After that, the fish was fine. It is a bit of a risk and will stress out the fish but I was desperate and didn't know what else to do.

Good luck

I netted him and used some tweezers and pulled it out I thought I was going to hurt him at first but I gave it a go and he is much better now.

Awesome, good to hear it! That's a very stressful thing for both fish and you, so glad it worked out!