My fish has a piece of the filter stuck in his mouth. His mouth is stuck open. The piece is almost an inch open. He doesn't seem to be choking on it. It just looks stuck. What do I do?
if your fish is big enough then take it out and lay it on a wet towel and put the other half of wet towel over the top, use a pair of small long nose pliers and gently remove it from its mouth, once you have done that return it to its tank and ensure that it is swimming o.k, ensure you have enough oxygen going into your tank and add some tonic salts - then turn off the tank light and keep an eye on it.
Your fish is choking, beleive it or not, I lost a fish like that a few months ago. However, I did have a success story. Here is what you do. Take a pair of tweezers and pull the piece out of his mouth gently. Don't wait to do this or you'll lose him!!!!!
you need to get tweezers and try and catch hold of the bit of filter-it's easier if you put the fish in a small container first. or if its a big fish, wrap it in a wet towel first. this happened to one of my guppies and I eventually managed to get the foreign object unstuck-good luck it might take a while!
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if your fish is big enough then take it out and lay it on a wet towel and put the other half of wet towel over the top, use a pair of small long nose pliers and gently remove it from its mouth, once you have done that return it to its tank and ensure that it is swimming o.k, ensure you have enough oxygen going into your tank and add some tonic salts - then turn off the tank light and keep an eye on it.
Your fish is choking, beleive it or not, I lost a fish like that a few months ago. However, I did have a success story. Here is what you do. Take a pair of tweezers and pull the piece out of his mouth gently. Don't wait to do this or you'll lose him!!!!!
you need to get tweezers and try and catch hold of the bit of filter-it's easier if you put the fish in a small container first. or if its a big fish, wrap it in a wet towel first. this happened to one of my guppies and I eventually managed to get the foreign object unstuck-good luck it might take a while!