Squirmy Dodges a Bullet
Coral has a fish tank. In her tank she has a bunch of inbred guppies all descendant from the same 3-4 original fish. She also has a now fairly large pleco. The other resident of her tank is a loach. I guess it’s a weather loach - although it’s of the golden variety. His name is Squirmy.
The other evening I went to feed the fish before bedtime. We have a small canvas box next to the tank and in that box we keep various fish foods and other tank supplies. As I reached for the food I noticed something odd in a plastic cup in the box. It was Squirmy! Ahhhh! I had no idea how long he had been there but my first thought was that he was dead.
But, as a kid I once had a similar loach and I think on more than one case he jumped out of the tank and was returned later and survived. So, I quickly dipped the cup in the water. Squirmy didn’t move. I let the cup of water sit there in the tank for a minute and slowly squirmy started to move. We put him back in the tank and Coral went to bed not knowing if Squirmy would be okay or not.
Well, several days later Squirmy seems to be back to normal so I guess he’s fine. I’ve covered up the small holes in the tank cover (I’m amazed that he got out in the first place).
Mimi said,
September 28, 2008 @ 8:32 pm
Hooray for Saquirmy! I stepped on yours in the dark one night. Loaches must be able to survive out of water much longer than normal fish.
adena said,
October 21, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
I can’t even begin to comprehend how much therapy I would require had I experienced a loach loose in my home. I am weak. You are strong.