Any chance my sixline will live??

[BCT182]

Some how, my sixline made it over the overflow, through the grate, down the spa-flex and into my sump.

From there he was sucked into the sicce pump on my skimmer (which is mesh modded) and into the body of the skimmer.

I pulled him out and he's beat up pretty bad. He's swimming and behaving normally but he has some flesh wounds. Any chance a healthy fish in a stable enviroment can shake being baeat up like that?

 

[matts125]

I have had that happen with my clownfish before and it made it, it sounds like yours may need a little medication in a QT to help it pull through with no infection. if it is swimming, eating and acting ok My guess is that it is very possible to pull through granted you can keep it fron getting an infection...

Matt

 

[seawandrr]

My fang blenny took a similar ride, and during attempts to get her out of the sump, she jumped a baffle and made it into the (running) return pump.

(left running because she was two screened baffles away from the return at the start of the chase... dumb move on our part)

She had a small flesh wound on her back, and looked like heck... we watched her closely to see if there would be a follow on bacterial infection to the wounds, but they healed without medical intervention, and she's been perfectly normal for the last year since the incident.

I'd watch closely, and if you start to see additional white showing, or fuzzy white on the wounds, get it into a hospital tank with Furan-2 and/or triple sulfa.

~K

 

[james734]

Hard to say.. If he's swimming around that's a good sign.
Hope for the best..

 

[Scooterman]

last night my sixline jumped into my overflow trough I wouldn't know how else he wold get there, so maybe it was a world wide thing with sixlines yesterday?

 

[mfinn]

Some how, my sixline made it over the overflow, through the grate, down the spa-flex and into my sump.

From there he was sucked into the sicce pump on my skimmer (which is mesh modded) and into the body of the skimmer.

That has to be called "Fish Hell"

 

[dnjan]

last night my sixline jumped into my overflow trough I wouldn't know how else he wold get there, so maybe it was a world wide thing with sixlines yesterday?

Shhh! My sixline didn't jump, so please keep this quiet.
Perhaps a smaller font?

 

[NC2WA]

BCT182,

For flesh wounds, I use MelaFlix. Some people don't think it is worth anything, but I had a red coris wrasse's jaw broken and eye sock torn out by a snowflake eel. I was able to catch the wrasse and place it in a 12g QT tank. I treated the tank for 5 days, but didnt see the wrasse for 10 days; though he was dead, but low and behold, he surfaced and the jaw and eye socket were cleared up. He was able to eat, but had to circle around to see the food with his one good eye. I had this wrasse for a total of 5 years and gave him to a LFS that I knew would take good care of it when I moved from NC to WA.

So for flesh wounds, fin rot, popeye, I wouldn't hesitate to use MelaFlix again. However, this MUST be used in a QT do NOT use it in your main display tank.

Note: It will make a room smell like peppermint.

Kirk