Close Call Last Night

While doing a water change and filter sock change last night, I got the water change done and was just taking the dirty filter sock to go spray it down, I glanced in the filter sock and noticed a black slug/leach looking thing in the bottom of the the sock. Upon closer inspection I realized it was one of my saltwater black mollies. I resigned myself to chalking it up as a loss as the sock had been sitting out of the water for nearly 20 minutes and didn't appear to be moving. As I was getting ready to flush it I noticed that the fish was still gasping for air, so I took it out and quickly placed it back into the tank. It went down to the rock and lay there for a few minutes. Today it was swimming around with it's counterpart as if nothing had ever happened.

 

Wow, that is one hardy molly. I once had a guppy Jump out of a small hole in the tank lid, and I don't know how long he was on the carpet, but he is to this day swimming around just fine

 

While doing a water change and filter sock change last night, I got the water change done and was just taking the dirty filter sock to go spray it down, I glanced in the filter sock and noticed a black slug/leach looking thing in the bottom of the the sock. Upon closer inspection I realized it was one of my saltwater black mollies. I resigned myself to chalking it up as a loss as the sock had been sitting out of the water for nearly 20 minutes and didn't appear to be moving. As I was getting ready to flush it I noticed that the fish was still gasping for air, so I took it out and quickly placed it back into the tank. It went down to the rock and lay there for a few minutes. Today it was swimming around with it's counterpart as if nothing had ever happened.

Wow close call indeed! That is one fighter of a fish! It happened to me once with an adf. He jumped out while doing a pwc and went behind a a big heavy cabinet where my tank was housed. Took me what seemed to be forever to try and get him out. Luckily he survived.

 

That's a fish that I would treasure alright. Tough little guy.

 

No kidding. The ride that fish took can't have been fun. Ended up in my overflow and then sucked up the drain pipe and down into my filter sock getting pounded by fast flowing water with no means of escape and then sitting outside of the water in a drying sock for 20 minutes before being discovered. Hopefully he learned to stay out of the overflow from here on out.

 

I spoke too soon. He ended up in my filter sock again and this time he was so thin that he didn't do well with the re-introduction. The other molly is still doing well. I am going to say that this saltwater molly algae eater is a Myth. The one that is still around eats some of the extra bits of food that would otherwise go to waste in the tank, but that's about the only benefit I have ever gotten out of either of them. Had to flush the other one.