Yesterday night was scary and stressful because silly Nemo and Khubbie (my 2 pet Goldfish) swallowed one of the fish tank gravel. Earlier that morning, we noticed that Nemo was looking sick, would not swim and stayed in one corner of the tank. So, we cleaned the tank and started looking online for some information on types of goldfish illnesses. Then in the evening, while having diner my friend Mandar (from California) and Gina (roommate), I saw Khubbie chocking with a gravel stone stuck in its mouth. We immediately started looking for an appropriate tool that would help us remove the gravel stone off Khubbie’s mouth. We had to be extra careful, as we couldn’t keep fish out of the water for a long time. Luckily we had Mandar, who had fish tank at home and is used to handling fish and so he could handle them efficiently. Finally with the help of nail clippers he pulled out the gravel from Khubbie’s mouth.
It didn’t take us too long to figure out that maybe Nemo has also swallowed one of the fish tank gravel. And, to our surprise Nemo’s condition was even worse as rock had slipped deep down Nemo’s throat. Now, we needed some really effective tool that could slip in Nemo’s mouth to extract the rock. At this time, all we knew was, we have to save our fish from chocking. We researched online and found that Goldfish being scavengers have a habit of digging into rocks in search of food, may be in the process both Nemo and Khubbie inadvertently swallowed the tank rocks. Both my fish were terrified and so were we! We took the pitcher in the bathroom as it had bright lights; we also set the table lamp as focus light to see through Nemo’s mouth, and used a tweezers to pull the rock out. In between the rock extraction process, Mandar had to take excessive care of putting the fish back into the water frequently, so that they could breathe. Eventually, with all the stressful, but diligent efforts we successfully extracted the rock from Nemo’s throat as well. Phew!
We all couldn’t believe that we actually saved our fish. We were happy to see our fish back into the tank, safe and alive! We removed all the gravels out of the tank. I would never be able to forget this eventful night, spent in struggling to remove the rock off my pet fish’s mouth/throat.
It didn’t take us too long to figure out that maybe Nemo has also swallowed one of the fish tank gravel. And, to our surprise Nemo’s condition was even worse as rock had slipped deep down Nemo’s throat. Now, we needed some really effective tool that could slip in Nemo’s mouth to extract the rock. At this time, all we knew was, we have to save our fish from chocking. We researched online and found that Goldfish being scavengers have a habit of digging into rocks in search of food, may be in the process both Nemo and Khubbie inadvertently swallowed the tank rocks. Both my fish were terrified and so were we! We took the pitcher in the bathroom as it had bright lights; we also set the table lamp as focus light to see through Nemo’s mouth, and used a tweezers to pull the rock out. In between the rock extraction process, Mandar had to take excessive care of putting the fish back into the water frequently, so that they could breathe. Eventually, with all the stressful, but diligent efforts we successfully extracted the rock from Nemo’s throat as well. Phew!
We all couldn’t believe that we actually saved our fish. We were happy to see our fish back into the tank, safe and alive! We removed all the gravels out of the tank. I would never be able to forget this eventful night, spent in struggling to remove the rock off my pet fish’s mouth/throat.
:) :) :)
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