lil lisas bad day

Jager · Post by **Jager** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:47 pm

well i thought i was having a bad day, sick as a dog, and get up to turn on the tank lights, and find my porc stuck to a powerhead, i turn the powerhead off and she has a huge bruised/ damaged area behind her fin. ive lost two porc to stuff like this, so im watching her closely, the thing that amazes me is that the powerhead is hidden behind a wall of rock, that she couldnt get into at all i watched her try over and ovevr. somehow not only did she get in but she got hurt.

im hoping she will pull through, it seems like a skin outer layer issue rather than internal, she swims as well as can be, is alert and tracking me, and i will be feeding her tongiht to check on appetite.

if i lose her im probably going to go porcless for a bit, itll be too rough.

Meander · Post by **Meander** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:54 pm

I'm sorry, I hope she's okay.

It's so easy to get attached to them. Porcs are so much like little water puppies.

Hang in there!

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:06 pm

Sorry to hear that. J, why not put one of those prefilters on the PH? If its a AC they have those prefilter canisters.

Jager · Post by **Jager** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:06 pm

these are the powersweep powerheads, and they come with prefilter blocks, which gunk up way to fast to be a smart thign to add, im gonna add pvc pipe to them and drill holes to lessen the pull of the inlets, so far shes holdign up, looks like a mess on one side, but is swimming and breathing normally, clear eyes etc.

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:13 pm

I think you could attatch AC prefilters without the prefilter media. Easier?

TAN · Post by **TAN** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:57 am

My first porc one year earlier it had the same fate with one maxi-jetâ€¦.
Unfortunately when I found him it was very late..
I hope she's okay now Jager.....

Woland · Post by **Woland** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:54 am

Thinking about you guys...
Fingers crossed.

lisalisa · Post by **lisalisa** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:31 pm

SaltwaterPufferGirl · Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:28 pm

How is your little guy doing? I had a dogface puff get stuck to a powerhead as well back in feb of this year. He still has a scar on his tummy, but he is fat and happy now, he looked really bad there for a long time, for 2 months, the first month it looked like his skin was falling off in sheets like when you get a sunburn. then there is white fluffy fatty skin under that, that eventually turned to a lighter shade of his normal skin color, mine actually had a small hole in the middle of his stomach when he would breath you could see his insides move around. You can look up the nightmare that I went through with him. Might want to try what I did. My guy pulled though. I pray that yours does also, they are so sweet looking making puppy dog eyes at you.

Jager · Post by **Jager** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:56 pm

she is recovering fine, still has very white spines in that area as the outer skin was pulled off, but shes eating fine and quite happy. she took a week to get rolling again, and only stopped eating for a 2 day period.

SaltwaterPufferGirl · Post by **SaltwaterPufferGirl** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:08 pm

That is great, I think mine stopped eating for like 2 weeks, I was on pins and needles. Just watch out for secondary infection.

lisalisa · Post by **lisalisa** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:27 pm

hehe I think J's got it covered.

I'm glad to know my namesake is well again!

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