sooooo true. One side was all F'd up. I have no idea if he was on the ground 10 minutes or 30. I was upstairs working ( network engineer) and came down to feed the tank. I picked him up thinking, definitely already dead, but he gasped. It felt wrong euthanizing him so I put him in the tank held him swam him around he perked up and put him in an egg crate in good flow from the return. That night he swam around looked healthy, then next day took a turn and died. Poor fella. He had a cool personality. Whelp, now the mesh is on, hopefully nobody escapes. Couples of small gaps, but nothing major.Once the skin, eyes and gills start to dry, its a low percentage of survival Unfortunately. Sorry this happened. We buy a certain fish for a reason and the last thing one wants is this.