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I was tearing down my 20 gallon, and moved all my fish first. I then took my HOB filter to the sink to give it a good cleaning,and after removing the biofilter and impeller, ran pretty hot tapwater inside to clean out the slime. I looked first to see if any snails were still inside. Nothing visible.
I then put my hand down inside to rub off the slime while the hot water was running, and felt something there...and it moved!
I looked inside again, dumped the water out, and there was my BBN that had gone awol about 4 days earlier!
I figured he had died and been consumed by the other fish in the tank. He must have been hanging on to the input tube way up; when I take it out to feed the fish their flake he must have jumped inside without my noticing...I freaked.
I took him over to my 55 like the Flash and put him in...he sorta floated slowly to the bottom and laid there upside down and then...he slowly turned over, flicked his tail, and moved away.
He is busily cleaning the sides of the tank as we speak, absolutely no worse for the wear...I thought I had poisoned and boiled him, and it seems all I did was annoy him.
I have had 2 seemingly happy healthy ABNs just die after 3 days in my 55...I thought BNs were a bit delicate.
This sucker is obviously Rambo BN...I wish I had more like him!
I then put my hand down inside to rub off the slime while the hot water was running, and felt something there...and it moved!
I looked inside again, dumped the water out, and there was my BBN that had gone awol about 4 days earlier!
I figured he had died and been consumed by the other fish in the tank. He must have been hanging on to the input tube way up; when I take it out to feed the fish their flake he must have jumped inside without my noticing...I freaked.
I took him over to my 55 like the Flash and put him in...he sorta floated slowly to the bottom and laid there upside down and then...he slowly turned over, flicked his tail, and moved away.
He is busily cleaning the sides of the tank as we speak, absolutely no worse for the wear...I thought I had poisoned and boiled him, and it seems all I did was annoy him.
I have had 2 seemingly happy healthy ABNs just die after 3 days in my 55...I thought BNs were a bit delicate.
This sucker is obviously Rambo BN...I wish I had more like him!
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