View Full Version : I just found a mouse floating
meegwell
01/14/2014, 06:13 PM
Silly mouse cant swim in a fuge! Looks to be a few days old maybe...bloated but not decaying. Scooped him out and flushed him. Anything I need to be concerned with? Ill test and i just did a scheduled 15% wc...thats when i spotted him....
choirboy
01/14/2014, 06:18 PM
that's probably mostly what you can do. you might want to prepare more water for wc's if a problem remains
albano
01/14/2014, 06:24 PM
Silly mouse cant swim in a fuge!...
That's why I keep a cat fish in sump!
Deberber
01/14/2014, 06:36 PM
That's why I keep a cat fish in sump!
Good one
syrinx
01/14/2014, 06:38 PM
Just a bit of ammonia is all I would imagine- and likely absorbed by your system already. They always pee when they die- but its not that much.
brad_G
01/14/2014, 06:44 PM
Unless you had mouse poison out! I'm not real sure what's in that stuff but it ain't good I promise.
MSreefdoc
01/14/2014, 07:09 PM
I would think most of the microbes that live on a rodent would not fair well in a high salinity environment(or live through the rapid environment change!). You should have nothing to worry about other than an insignificant amount of added ammonia.
meegwell
01/14/2014, 09:01 PM
thanks for the input.
rlm2005
01/14/2014, 09:08 PM
Just when you think you have heard everything. :D I think you should be fine, keep an eye on things and have more water ready to change out.
PirateToast
01/14/2014, 10:21 PM
I'd want to figure out how the mouse got there though... and if he was eyeing up anything for a meal or chewing on any cords.
I would think most of the microbes that live on a rodent would not fair well in a high salinity environment(or live through the rapid environment change!). You should have nothing to worry about other than an insignificant amount of added ammonia.
Not so sure about that. I saw a rat on a South Carolina beach last summer, and he was very well adapted to salt-water ... Now, mouse to rat extrapolation is another story.
disc1
01/14/2014, 11:24 PM
I don't even know what to say. Run some carbon, keep water ready to change, and keep a close eye on the tank for any signs of distress. If you see a problem start changing water. Hopefully nothing will happen.
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