Resurrection

While fishing out the four F1s for brother Jungle last Friday night, I unknowingly hurt Leo, my 3" kapampa. While chatting with Jungle, we saw to our horror Leo upside down at the bottom of the tank, gasping for air. I quickly transferred my 2 recuperating brichadis and 1 pulcher into my malaywi tank, do a 50% water change and transferred Leo to the hospital tank. Added 1 table spoon of marine salt and 2 table spoon of epson salt. Leo looked bad. I was 90% sure it would die. She was bellying up to the surface with dazed eyes and gaping mouth, flowing around lifelessly. I added melafix 1/2 hour later. Situation didn't improve much, it was still lying on its back...den...lo and behold..it slowly balanced itself and swam to one corner...slowly but surely it recovered. I checked the fish for visible sign of disease but found nothing, but the caudal fin was torn almost into half. I suspect the fish went into deep shock when i moved the rocks and may have accidentally hurt it.

It's been 5 days since, have added melafix daily and the fin is always fully back to normal. The fish is still alittle skittish, probably cos it is in am empty tank on the floor. Will be transferring it back to the main tank tonight.

However, I have noticed that Kinked Tail, one of my favourite has gone into hiding since that fateful night. It has not come out during the daily feed, and I am starting to worry. It looked pretty lethargic. Could it be holding ? not sure, will check tonight, hopefully she is fine.

btw, the two recuperating brichardis didn't make it. One died the next day, the other got eaten up completely by my hungry mbunas.