Survival.

[Joviella]

We had a big change round of our tanks the other day.My malawis have moved from a tank in the living room to a tank on the stairs.
When we were moving the fish to another tank,while their rocks were being moved,we couldn't find one of our 3 petricolas.After a long old search,we decided that we now only had 2 petricolas.
The rocks were placed outside my front door,while we did a water change and clean of the "new"malawi tank.We then placed the rocks in the tank and added more water.
Suddenly,out of a rock swam the missing petricola.He had been out of the water for at least two hours.....amazing.He is absolutely fine.I would have felt awful if he hadn't been though.
Does anyone else have any survival tales about their fish?

 

[moray]

You looked after the arrowana and it's fine, therre's survival for you.

 

[laurasmithuk]

in my old tank i took my log out and washed it under tap to clean it out. when doing so one of my clown loach fell out onto the bath......... he lived

 

[colen]

One time while cleaning my tank I removed a large peace of drift wood. A few minutes later I found my small pleco flopping around the floor.

I had a RTBS jump out of a tank before and land in a bucket full of water for the water change.


I am amazed that after 2 hours he was still alive. For the most part I think african cichlids are pretty hard fish to kill, from my experience anyhow. Although that is a long time out of the tank.

 

[Joviella]

@ Moray. Only just clued it was you!!!!!!