Rcunning8
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Hey Guys,
So I came to check on my potters wrasse this afternoon to make sure he was looking healthy, found him immediately and everything looked good. However I couldn't for the life of me locate my 4.5 inch blue throat trigger steve! I looked frantically on the floor and in the tank and couldn't find him anywhere! I thought maybe he was dead for some crazy reason in the tank and still could not find him. I pretty much had given up but when I sat down I saw my worst case scenario, there was Steve laying lifeless and dried out like fish jerky on the carpet. I sat there for about 15 minutes with my head in my hand thinking of how I was going to break the news to my roommate Aaron that his fish had died. He is back in NY right now visiting family so Thought I would bag and freeze him until he came home so we could have a ceremony when he got back. I picked up Steve and I swear this thing was a dried black stick of death. All of a sudden I saw his gill twitch.
Yesterday I coincidentally read a post from a good friend here on CR [MENTION=814]tinman[/MENTION] who had posted that fish can live up to three hours out of water. I am not sure on the amount of time steve was vacationing on my carpet but it had to be at least 2-3 hours. I thought to myself, no way is this going to work but I might as well try. So I held steve underwater for 15 minutes and it didn't look good but all of a sudden he started to burp up air!!! After that I saw his fins start to twitch!! I started scrubbing all the dirt and hair off of his sides and thats when he tried to pull away from me! Anyways I put him on the sanded to let him ride it out. Well steve laid there for about 30 minutes and then started zombie swimming into the rocks and walls!!! he is still not fully recovered but I am completely blown away that this fish is still alive. When I say that he was a dried out black stick of fish jerky, I mean it, no moisture was present whatsoever. Thats my story, STEVE IS ALIVE TO SWIM ANOTHER DAY!!! now time to make a DIY top 
So I came to check on my potters wrasse this afternoon to make sure he was looking healthy, found him immediately and everything looked good. However I couldn't for the life of me locate my 4.5 inch blue throat trigger steve! I looked frantically on the floor and in the tank and couldn't find him anywhere! I thought maybe he was dead for some crazy reason in the tank and still could not find him. I pretty much had given up but when I sat down I saw my worst case scenario, there was Steve laying lifeless and dried out like fish jerky on the carpet. I sat there for about 15 minutes with my head in my hand thinking of how I was going to break the news to my roommate Aaron that his fish had died. He is back in NY right now visiting family so Thought I would bag and freeze him until he came home so we could have a ceremony when he got back. I picked up Steve and I swear this thing was a dried black stick of death. All of a sudden I saw his gill twitch.
Yesterday I coincidentally read a post from a good friend here on CR [MENTION=814]tinman[/MENTION] who had posted that fish can live up to three hours out of water. I am not sure on the amount of time steve was vacationing on my carpet but it had to be at least 2-3 hours. I thought to myself, no way is this going to work but I might as well try. So I held steve underwater for 15 minutes and it didn't look good but all of a sudden he started to burp up air!!! After that I saw his fins start to twitch!! I started scrubbing all the dirt and hair off of his sides and thats when he tried to pull away from me! Anyways I put him on the sanded to let him ride it out. Well steve laid there for about 30 minutes and then started zombie swimming into the rocks and walls!!! he is still not fully recovered but I am completely blown away that this fish is still alive. When I say that he was a dried out black stick of fish jerky, I mean it, no moisture was present whatsoever. Thats my story, STEVE IS ALIVE TO SWIM ANOTHER DAY!!! now time to make a DIY top
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