One of my panda cory decided to take a 45 minute break, from the tank!

One of my 4 julii cories jumped out of a small container while I was acclimating them. I set up the acclimation container w/ a drip method, came back 1 hour later and saw only 3. I found that guy on the floor, half dried. I put him in a 5g hospital tank and immediately added mela- and pima-fix. That guy has been doing great so far!
 
Turbosaurus said:
Keep an eye on her. Stay up on your w/c, add some stresscoat or some melafix if its handy. As someone else mentioned and I experienced, she's probably got a good deal of damage to her skin and fins that may not be apparant right away.

I hope it doesn't happen to you- but when I was in a similar situation... After about a day or so being back in the tank he deteriorated rapidly. Aparantly a good deal of his slime coat, skin and fins had dried up. It rehydrated when he was put back in the tank so initially it looked fine. I thought everything was goign to be great- but the dried up tissue was already dead, rehydrated or not. That dead/dried tissue begain to slough off about a day later and I realized the true damage that had been done. It was probably the worst thing I've seen in over 20 years of fishkeeping and I ended up euthanizing him. Like a really bad burn victim.

I really hope it doesn't happen the same way to your little fish, and I hate to lay a bad trip on you- but I want to warn you it could get worse before it gets better, so keep a close eye on her. You may not be out of the woods yet. I hope you are, but better safe than sorry.
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Well, this is pretty much how it turned out. Several days later lesions formed and she just pretty much started 'falling apart'. I actually put a container of water in the freezer to put her out of her misery, she died before the water froze over. Well, you do what you can do.

I also had the female killi bail out of the other tank 2 days ago(again through a TINY opening), she was a goner when I found her. The male has been sulking in the corner for two days. Not a great fish week :(
 
One of my 4 julii cories jumped out of a small container while I was acclimating them. I set up the acclimation container w/ a drip method, came back 1 hour later and saw only 3. I found that guy on the floor, half dried. I put him in a 5g hospital tank and immediately added mela- and pima-fix. That guy has been doing great so far!
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Lesions formed on the guy's body and that little guy has passed away.
 
Sorry to hear that, same exact as mine. Looked good for a couple days then went completely downhill very fast.
 
Sorry to hear about your panda. I have lost a baby dragon goby that way. I found it in the middle of the room one morning and still alive but the damage was done and it died before the end of the day. I have all but 2 tanks with full covers now. I like to have open top tanks but I have discovered that even swords will jump out.
 
Jeeze Kevin, I was hoping you didn't go through the same experience I did, but maybe I helped you put her out of her misery sooner rather than later. I know how you feel, and you did the right thing.
 
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