stupid fish

[miggi]

one of my opaline gourami keeps on jumping out the water, I have a glass sliding cover on it so it keeps banging against it. I was dozing on the settee today and heard a bang so looked and saw the water surface swishing around but fish seemed ok. i looked this evening when i fed them and this gourami has damaged a patch of scales. there was blood on him, but he seems to be ok. sorry it lol dont know if he or she lol, anyway, its a full grown opaline gourami and the damaged patch is directly above his gills, it is approx 1 or 1 and a half inches, so a fair bit but as i say he seems fine, is swimming around - it was a bit pale but colour is coming back now.
I wondered if there is anything i can do to help him. And any way to prevent it happening again! I also noticed that there is a small outbreak of ich in my tank so have dosed them up for that. Will he be more suseptable to it? Hope hes going to be ok, he may be daft but hes a lovely fish. Keep your fingers crossed.
Thanks, Miggi

 

[Skylar]

Im not an expert or anything but aquarium salt would be a good thing to add, if there isn't any scaleless fish in the tank. I would get a piece of foam and put it onto the top of the tank so that he would jump but not hurt himself.

 

[dead_slade]

opline grouramis get bigger then 1 and a half inches....

 

[miggi]

lol - the wound is 1 to 1 and a half inches not the fish lol - not sure bout foam might get in the water? - would a plastic drip tray be better do you think? replace the glass?

 

[FighterFishy]

i don't see that a plastic drip tray would do any less damage then the glass one.

i would give the foam a try first maybe you can drop the water line by a few cm's not too much obviously but maybe enough to stop him hitting the glass when he jumps.

Just an idea

FF xx

 

[Barday]

Jumping fish can sometimes be an indicator of poor water quality, Do a couple of water tests and post the results plz

 

[miggi]

i'm pleased to announce my nitrites r a resounding zero lol
I have no idea about anything else as i have only that test kit at present but i'm doing 25% water changes weekly at present.

 

[Danno]

what you could do about the foam is use the fine canister filter pads. But get the solfest find possable.

 

[Dwarfs]

Most gouramis are naturally jumpy, IME, my opaline sometimes freaks out if I approach too fast. I would reccomend doing some water changes and maybe adding some melafix Good luck