Dead clownfish came back to life? What are the chances of making it?

[BoBoSkater]

Today I got home from work and walked past my tank and noticed I didn't see my clownfish but just figured he was hiding or something. So I am out back just watering my garden, smoking and cig and things. About 10-15 minutes I came back in the house and noticed he was still not it sight(it is super rare for him to be hiding for over a minute) anyways so I am looking in the tank for a couple more minutes and figure he must be dead. So I start cheking the power heads/ overflow/etc and his body is nowhere. Anyways once I get the bucket out to start taking rocks out (to find he body, because he must surly be dead in there) I notice him all dryed up all the floor not moving:( I picked him up and looked closer at him. He was dead.... Like dead eyes sunk in, dry, stuff. So I stare at him in my hand for a minute and wake into the bathroom to flush him. Right when I was about to say goodbye it's fin moved????$$@@ I was like wtf? So I ran to the tank and moved him back in forth for about 15 minutes. After five or so he moved both fins. Then at around 10-15 mintes and felt pretty strong in my hand. I let him go and him swam to the bottom running into rocks. Swam retard like???? Hard to explain. So I turned the lights off and about an hour later I saw him swimming across the tank. Sorry this is such a long read but I wanted all the facts. So long story short a clownfish out of water for atleast 30 plus minutes. Will he make it? I kid you not he was DEAD dead. Anyone else have one come back to live like this??? Thank you-bo

[gulfsurfer101]

My advice to you is, next time your outside just stick to cigarettes and stay away from other, things!

[Pinner Reef]

When I worked at the LFS we'd give all the nightly jumpers that revived a 50/50 chance. We hypothesized it damages the gills when they are dried up as many fish gasp regularly thereafter. But yes, we had a pleco with sunken eyes and dry skin live for months after and eventually sold him to a pond. Hope he pulls thru for ya!

[Bingo1213]

I have seen it happen too. I had a similar experience with my purple firefish a year or so ago. I was doing a water change and must have no realized he had jumped ship until about 20 minutes later. He too was hardly moving but i put him back in the tank with all the pumps off and it took a little bit but he came back. I still have the fish a year later so he is now a total of 3 years old and still going strong! Good luck!

[ndrobey]

Put a lid on the tank to keep the prisoners inside and prevent jailbreaks. The prisoners are suicidal.

[Anden]

Sad that ppl dont close the tanks, your all murders the fish is not suicidal wink wink hope it lives.

[BoBoSkater]

He was died this morning. RIP tomato clown.

[gulfsurfer101]

See, I knew he would get died! I'm sorry to hear that though.

[ClownGobyDood]

At my LFS a customer came in and told me his zebra moray jumped and he came home to find a shriveled eel of the floor but he's a veteran aquarist and just in case he plopped him back in his tank and sure enough a couple minutes later he was swimming around like nothing ever happened...fish are weird haha

and sorry for ur loss one of my fire gobies jumped into my overflow but somehow he broke something in his back so there was no use trying to revive him

[Murphs_Reef]

In my freshwater days, I had a red tailed shark, while doing a water change I lifted the hood off, put it back on and proceeded to beer... Must have been at least 6 hours later came back to find what looked like crispy black chicken skin.. With flys on it... Dead forever

[amphipod]

I had a crayfish, like all crayfish it wanted to explore the outside world, as it anything outside the tank. Somehow retards gets out of its container, crawled behind the filing cabnet while I was gone for the day, crayfish is tangled in at least ¼ inch of cobwebs. Of course it was dead, you thought this would have a good ending?

Sorry to hear all your fishes deaths.

[ajmckay]

Haha all these stories sound like they're going to have a better ending but nope - dead.

 

About the longest I've had a fish out of water survive is like maybe 5 minutes or so... Put a lid on.

 

Somehow a while later, maybe a year or so, the same fish jumped, landed in an empty 5g bucket and found it x days later crispified.

[amphipod]

We need to make water bear aquariums so if our tanks dry up or the bears get out they don't die so easily lol.

[Tamberav]

Makes me wonder if I ever flushed a "live" jerky fish.

 

I have tops but fish sometimes find ways to get out... I took the top off to feed once and a midas blenny came rocketing out of the tank... almost hit me in the head on the way out. He had a long ride down but... the plushy carpet gave him a good landing pad.

[gulfsurfer101]

I once thought there was a break in downstairs at like 4am, so I quickly checked and found nothing had been tampered with and the alarm looked good so I went back to bed. About 7am I heard this scream from downstairs where my ex said there was a snake. I found my morray eel looking all shriveled on the hardwood flooring by my refrigerator. The temps had plumeted that night and I didn't have the heater plugged in, so he escaped, crawled across a den and then into the kitchen where he found a hear source and survived several hours of being out of the tank. I was amazed at how quickly it came around 5 minutes after putting him back in the tank.

[Santino]

I have a yellow watchman goby that jumped out of my tank overnight. I found in the morning dead on the floor.  Then 2 hours later I picked him and he gasped so I put him back in the water and he’s breathing again. So far he’s just laying on the bottom breathing but he occasionally moves than goes still again. How is this possible? Could he actually recover? 

[LucasYes]

Try not to flush your fish, because if it was alive, (which it was) it would die a painful death in a water treatment facility, or in the sewers. If it does make it, it will likely just be dumped in a non-saltwater source. Overall not a humane way to die. Maybe after lying on the floor for so long, the water shocked him. They chances that he’ll recover I’ll say, about 20-50 percent. 50 percent if your a great fish-keeper, 20 if your a novice. I hope he recovers, clownfish one of my favorite saltwater species. If he doesn’t, Rest In Peace (insert clownfish name)

[Jakesaw]

now I'm feeling bad about flushing my Royal Gramma that was stuck to side of Circulation pump lifeless. 

 

Maybe he was recoverable if I picked up smoking!