View Full Version : OMG OMG!!!!! My grandpa albino cory!
cdawson
07-06-2003, 10:51 PM
My girlfriend walked into my fishroom to find our oldest albino cory on the floor. He was still breathing but a little dried out w/ red streaks on him. I added stress coat to the q-tine tank. Should he be ok.
NJ Devils Fan
07-06-2003, 11:12 PM
It depends on how long he has been out and if that lack of water has greatly effected it. Only time will tell.
thom336
07-07-2003, 4:05 AM
Im not sure the exact figures, but I read somewhere the amount of time that a goldfish could spend out of water without causing themselves too much harm. I was quite amazed...
cdawson
07-07-2003, 11:40 AM
it's ok, he seems to be doing fine now. I'll leave him in the Q-tine tank for a few days and monitor him.
NJ Devils Fan
07-07-2003, 12:31 PM
If he isn't showing any odd behaviour, he should be fine.
Just curious: how did the cory get out of the tank?
I never thought of them as jumpers.
NJ Devils Fan
07-07-2003, 4:53 PM
Well, maybe he misjudged the top of the water. I mean, sometimes I see my cories dart to the top and back down. So, maybe he just kept going. ;)
Pootspete
07-08-2003, 8:11 AM
I mean, sometimes I see my cories dart to the top and back down. So, maybe he just kept going. Happened to me one day, but fortunatly I was in the room when it happened. I just had a small space for an opening, and that one cory found it when he darted up for a gulp of air, and went into orbit.
mrbigisbudgood
07-08-2003, 8:16 AM
Originally posted by NJ Devils Fan
Well, maybe he misjudged the top of the water. I mean, sometimes I see my cories dart to the top and back down. So, maybe he just kept going. ;)
Mine do the same thing but they've never ejected themselves from the tank. Y'all got me worried now.
thom336
07-08-2003, 9:25 AM
Cories annoy me when Im do maintenance - Splashing me with water! lol
cdawson
07-08-2003, 11:48 AM
He mis-judged the top of the water, he darts up to the top all the time (I've got 8 corys and he's the only one). He lept through an opening of about 1" if that. I was lucky one of my golden retrievers didn't pick it up. Come to think of it the cory was probably the only thing on the floor at that time that HADN'T been in one of my golden retrievers mouths. They eat EVERYTHING.
Originally posted by NJ Devils Fan
Well, maybe he misjudged the top of the water. I mean, sometimes I see my cories dart to the top and back down. So, maybe he just kept going. ;)
Yeah, now that you mention it, it's likely that that's what happened. Another possibility is when it was going up to get a gulp of air, another fish started to chase it, causing the cory to go into its "turbo" mode, and going up a little higher than it wanted. I've seen my other fish chase my cory (and otto) when they go up for the gulp of air. Good thing I always keep the cover closed.
cdawson
07-09-2003, 11:00 AM
I just awoke this morning to find "grandpa" dead as a doornail in the quarantine tank. My girlfriend is gonna be so mad.
NJ Devils Fan
07-09-2003, 11:09 AM
Wow man, sorry about that. I would have thought that if everything was fine for a few days, it would live. Well, I was wrong.
cdawson
07-14-2003, 10:58 AM
That's what I thought, I think he may have gone blind because he only sat in each corner face first into the corner.His eyes looked blank....this chokes me because he was a proven male and 3 of his children have grown to full size in our large planted tank =(
fishdude
07-15-2003, 7:27 PM
originaly posted by NJ devils fan
Well, maybe he misjudged the top of the water. I mean, sometimes I see my cories dart to the top and back down. So, maybe he just kept going
mine go up to the surface too, guess ill be keeping the lid on more