View Full Version : Carpet surfing survivor! What to do?
Gordonious
04/22/2007, 09:50 AM
I woke up this morning after finally transferring a snow flake moray eel to a preventative qt tank. It was in a tank when a sick and diseased fish died and it was recommended I kept it in a fishless system for a while. As you can tell from the title I found it on the floor. It wasn't moving or breathing at all and didn't move when I first started to try to pick it up.(behind a cabinet with my glove. As I finally got a grip on it and started to slide it it moved.
I put it back in the tank, put a better lid on it and it is alive. What should I do now? Should I keep the tank at normal conditions? Lower temp? I am definitely leaving the lights off for a while. Perhaps put some kind of stress coat in there?(is there a type that is safe for this type of eel?)
Tang Salad
04/22/2007, 10:01 AM
Just let it rest. Morays have a special ability to dry off and then come back to life. Assuming your QT tank is clean, it has a decent chance.
pagojoe
04/22/2007, 03:01 PM
Tang is probably right. I've had a bunch of different morays and other eels, and all but the Pseudechidna brummeri were caught out of the water at low tide, hiding under and among rocks. (They can "swim" along the ground pretty well.) I don't know if they normally get as dry as yours did, but snowflake eels can definitely live out of the water for quite a while.
Good luck,
Don
Not an eel, but my Midas Blenny jumped from QT landed in a pile'o slat creep for I have no idea how long and that was two years ago, still doing fine.
... and yes, my tank is pretty much surf resistant.
Gordonious
04/22/2007, 08:50 PM
Thanks guys, it appears to be doing fine so far. I am going to try to feed it before I go to sleep. If it doesn't eat I will know something is wrong because this thing bites at everything. Thanks again.
Jon
RedEyeElf
04/22/2007, 08:59 PM
I had an eel out of water for like 10hours or more, still fine, weeks later, just don't stress them more
alan214
04/22/2007, 09:09 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9789251#post9789251 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RedEyeElf
I had an eel out of water for like 10hours or more, still fine, weeks later, just don't stress them more
RedEye, just out of curiosity, how do you know your eel was out of the water for 10 hours?
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