All right, this morning I woke up and went to go feed my fish like any other morning. I go over to the tank and I notice my big fat goldfish, Koehler, swimming oddly with his mouth open and something sticking out of it. Then I realize that that thing has a tail and that he's swallowed one of the smaller fish in the tank. At first, while I was getting a bowl to put him in so I could extract the dang creature from his mouth, I thought it was a guppy he'd eaten but then I realized that the tail was a oto tail.
Not good.
When I got him out and into the bowl, I found that the oto was suctioned on to the inside of him. We managed to pull the oto out of Koehler sans mouth part. The mouth part is still inside him but he seems to be all right...for the most part. I don't know what's going to happen but Koehler is a suicidal homicidal fish. (But I love him anyway...dumb fish...)
He's always getting gravel and algae wafer pieces stuck in his mouth and I end up having to get them out with a pair of tweezers. And then recently, he tore one of my male guppies in half trying to eat it, I guess.
Someone please tell me that their gold fish has done something similar to this... :wall: :wall: :wall:
Not good.
When I got him out and into the bowl, I found that the oto was suctioned on to the inside of him. We managed to pull the oto out of Koehler sans mouth part. The mouth part is still inside him but he seems to be all right...for the most part. I don't know what's going to happen but Koehler is a suicidal homicidal fish. (But I love him anyway...dumb fish...)
He's always getting gravel and algae wafer pieces stuck in his mouth and I end up having to get them out with a pair of tweezers. And then recently, he tore one of my male guppies in half trying to eat it, I guess.
Someone please tell me that their gold fish has done something similar to this... :wall: :wall: :wall: