Chance Of Survival?

[Dizfunkshunal]

I have several fish list not really important my rainbow shark has been real aggressive the last 2 days, so i decided to put him in solitary confinement, i took water from the tank put into a clear bowl and transferred him into, its a big bowl just for him by himself. The shark jumped out of the bowl hit the top of the table and then bounced to the floor. I don't know how long he was on the floor but as soon as i noticed i put him back into the bowl. watched for a few minutes he did not seem to be doing so well other then a few breaths so put him back into the main tank where there is a current water movement to help him breath. He seems to have mostly recovered, he laid still just breathing for awhile about 5 minutes, its been about 20 now and he is starting to move around. He is now in is normal cave under the rock. With all the stress and the fall 4 feet to the floor, whats the chance he will live?

 

[joyboy]

I have several fish list not really important my rainbow shark has been real aggressive the last 2 days, so i decided to put him in solitary confinement, i took water from the tank put into a clear bowl and transferred him into, its a big bowl just for him by himself. The shark jumped out of the bowl hit the top of the table and then bounced to the floor. I don't know how long he was on the floor but as soon as i noticed i put him back into the bowl. watched for a few minutes he did not seem to be doing so well other then a few breaths so put him back into the main tank where there is a current water movement to help him breath. He seems to have mostly recovered, he laid still just breathing for awhile about 5 minutes, its been about 20 now and he is starting to move around. He is now in is normal cave under the rock. With all the stress and the fall 4 feet to the floor, whats the chance he will live?

He should be ok if he wasn't on the floor for too long, just keep an eye on him and give him some time.
Good Luck!

 

[ZoddyZod]

Only time will tell really.

 

[Dizfunkshunal]

Thanks i will keep an eye on him but i dont want to run him out of his cave to often i know stress factor at this point is threw the roof. lol

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I got up to make a trip to the bathroom and when I returned it was to a 8 inch SAE flopping on the carpet. I got a net, got him into it and returned him to the tank. I had done maint. on the tank last night and had hung a H.O.T Magnum on the front to polish the water over night. That meant the lid was left ajar. It have to leap about 4 ft. to land where it did.

It was returned to the tank, none the worse for wear. Unless yout guy was out of the water a long time, it will probably be fine.

Many of the torpedo shaped fish can be champion jumpers. Red line barbs have been known to leap straight up out of a bucket 5ft or more.

 

[Dizfunkshunal]

SO far it doing good, lol it runs and hides when it sees me. who could blame it. it back to normal being aggressive towards the other fish more then normal. so ill have to figure out something to quarantine him until he decides to be social.



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[tomtomtom1230]

I wouldn't worry about his temperament at the moment, I think he should calm down once the stress dies off completely.

 

[Dizfunkshunal]

I wouldn't worry about his temperament at the moment, I think he should calm down once the stress dies off completely.

ok thanks

 

[HAMBONE]

clearly the only logical question is, what are your stats? sharks don't jump out of large bowls of water for no reason.

any adwice I give will depend on what your stats are..

 

[TwoTankAmin]

sharks don't jump out of large bowls of water for no reason.

They most certainly do, they do not like being in bowels and buckets, they prefer to jump out of them rather than stay. I have had to use floating plants to keep some from jumping up and hitting the lid on a 5 gal. bucket. Swurdtails are the same way- found that out after finding a few crispy critters beside the bucket.

 

[JohnDyer]

My shark survived out of water for an hour once. I've read about one being out of water for over 8 hours. You should be fine.
How old is the shark?
If he suddenly becomes very aggressive, but hasn't been for some time, you should check on your water quality, and make sure none of the other fish are invading his cave. Those are the only reasons my rainbow shark would chase the other fish.

 

[Dizfunkshunal]

My shark survived out of water for an hour once. I've read about one being out of water for over 8 hours. You should be fine.
How old is the shark?
If he suddenly becomes very aggressive, but hasn't been for some time, you should check on your water quality, and make sure none of the other fish are invading his cave. Those are the only reasons my rainbow shark would chase the other fish.

water test fine i use test strips with a color chart, the water is a little hard 7.6 but other then that it tests good the water that was in the bowl was taken from the tank, he acts fine in the tank does not try to jump out at all and he was only in the bowl for maybe 5 minutes before he decided to escape. All the other fish stay at the top of the tank in one corner when the shark is not in his cave, when he comes out they run to the back top corner except the babies they do what ever they want to.

 

[ZoddyZod]

does that strip test include one for ammonia?

 

[Dizfunkshunal]

does that strip test include one for ammonia?

no

it does Nitrate, Nitrite, total Hardness, total alkalinity/ buffering capacity, and pH

btw update shark is fine a little fat, i think he been eating the guppy babies which is good and bad, now he is fat but i have less guppies to get rid of.