Hope my blue flasher wrasse survives

[Virginia Reef]

I bought a mystery wrasse and blue flasher wrasse at Roozens (DC area) 6 weeks ago. The flasher has just gotten fully acclimated to its tankmates in the last few days...no more retreating under the LR when another fish approached. I have 1/2" eggcrate on the top of the tank since I have lost wrasses to suicide leaps in the past.


While feeding tonight the flasher was feeding just fine on the first couple doses of food. Then I noticed that it had disappeared and did not reappear after a couple more doses of food. I checked behind the tank in the fish room and found the wrasse on the plywood shelf that the tank sits on. It was pretty dry and appeared lifeless. It was about 10 +/- minutes since I had last seen it in the tank. :sad2:

I put it in a floating fish container (livebearer type box with slits for water flow) in the sump and got the turkey baster out for some mouth to mouth. Gradually noticed an occasional gill movement. These got more frequent accompanied by mouth breathing. Then occasional pectoral fin movement and finally some eye movement. It is able to hold itself upright now and appears to breathing consistently. This happened about 30 minutes ago. :celeb1: :celeb2: :celeb3:

I hope that it can survive the 30" fall onto plywood (try landing on your head after a fall of 10 body lengths) and the subsequent drying out.:worried:

 

[Saboral]

Well I wish you the best, I had this happen to an arrowana in my old fw system. It was a sad day for me.

 

[manderx]

had the same thing with a 6-line once. thought i had fish jerky, but tossed him back in and he made a full recovery.

 

[Virginia Reef]

Morning update...Wrasse is still alive but laying on its side with labored breathing.

 

[NbMaxx13]

Keep us updated Paul... Good luck my friend... Allways hate to hear about these things... It's funny how attatched we get to our fish isn't it?

 

[ade]

Wrasses do that when they come in on shipments kind of playing dead. I hope that he has a full recovery, that is one of my wife fav fish. After my 120 was moved and I done some cleaning up I found a few of the fish that I thought had died in the tank. They are now going to be Christmas tree ornaments.;-)

 

[Virginia Reef]

Flasher wrasse has expired. :sad1: :sad1: :sad2: :thumbdown

It's on to the great Septic Tank in the ground.

 

[JStorey]

Egg crate will not keep wrasses in the tank. You need something that is 1/4" mesh. I use 1/4" pond netting fitted in to a window screen frame the size of the openings in my tank. works great, was cheap and doesn't block light.

 

[Doc's69]

Sorry to hear about your loss Paul, and I'm still interested in the lights and canopy but not sure how much you would want and the bigger aspect of how much I can afford.

 

[cayenne]

Paul,

Sorry to hear about that man. Like Eric said, it's amazing how attached we get to a fish in such a short time.

I lost two beautiful blue line Clowns about a month and a half ago due to them not shipping well, and I took it hard even though they were only in the house for a couple of hours.

 

[Virginia Reef]

Thanks guys. My wife names all the fish. The flasher wrasse was named Patty Lou After a friend of ours who REALLY got into the spirit of things in New Orleans. I'm sure that you can get the "flasher" thing straight. I won't mention any names but her initials are Patty Lou. This is the second "Patty Lou" that has leaped to her death. This one was through the egg crate. Might be the end of the line for flasher wrasses in my tank.

 

[cayenne]

Paul,

Apparently our wrasses were on the same wavelength this week. Only a couple of hours after I posted in this thread yesterday, Melanie called my cell while I was waiting in the Atlanta airport and said she had just found our Filamented Wrasse on the floor. He made it through egg crate and a canopy.

 

[Virginia Reef]

Too bad to hear that. I don't know how they through these small places. They have to have perfect aim to make it out.

 

[J. Montgomery]

When fish jump out of the water they have a lot of momentum going into the jump. Maybe the impact pushes up the eggcrate and they keep on sailing?

 

[ktnjer]

Sorry to hear about that Paul....I hope this 6 line I just got on Friday doesn't decide to take the Nestea plunge!

 

[ade]

Strange, how and why they decide to make the leap of faith. I have a six line in my 33 with an open top and he has been in there a good year. I also had a yellow corris in that same tank before the six line for about two years before his/her name was called.