Jumping fish

[Silly me]

My elephant nose fish jumped out of the water onto the bottom plate of the light on the tank, and was stuck there for about 3min, it was kind of hard to find him, after I heard the splash and then longer to get him out.

Now it looks like the most of the tail is dried and red at the base.
All seems fine so I when to the LFS to get something for sore fins or fighting scars,
so the lady gave me ment&$##@ blue. (long name bottle at home)

as any good and new to the hobby person will do I read the instructions only after I added the 2 drops per gallon to the tank.
"Harmfull to plant and most scaleless fish , like some catfish, bla bla bla"

Isnt my elephant nose scaleless?? running up and down. 2 hours later I took the fish out and now its in my wife's biggest salad bowl?

Did I now make thing worse, anything else I could treat the fish with, other than fish tonic or fin rot?

 

[Nina7777]

Hey there,

You can do a 50% water change in you tank, t try and remove all the medicine you already put in, plus if you have newer carbon in your filter than it will take it out.
Then you could try MELAFIX.....its all natural and completely harmless to scalessfish!

Let us know how he's doing.

 

[drobbins27]

Im sorry to hear about it Good luck, keep us posted

 

[Carolinesugar]

hiya hmmmm im not sure abt the fish being scaleless. but woteva u do, u have 2 get that water change of 50% as nina sed, as that stuff will do all sorts 2 ur filters bacteria.

if hes in the salad bowl still, try adding a tiny drop of melafix to it, just so he wnt get 2 stressed while u sort the main tank out.

the melafix is the best medicine i can think of to help ur fish. as its all natural, and fairly easy to find at the shops, and can also be used with all fish!

the melafix is a 7 day course of treatment ideally. u do a big water change b4 using it. add the rite amount 2 ur tank 4 7 days, on the 8th day no melafix or water change, on the 9th day do a water change.

i hope that this helps him. nasty as it may seem, but i hope that ur silly fish learns his lesson, and stays in the water nxt time! however, if he does it again i'd suggest getting a condensation tray that goes on the top of the tank, under the hood.

GUD LUCK!!!!