Injured eel!

[BadAngel14]

Yes - sorry, but that's a very significant wound. Eels have great healing powers, but if the wound goes down into the peritoneal area (the gut, if you will) the chance for recovery is much less. For now, you just want to give it a safe place to try to recover. Antibiotics would be the next step - to ward off infection.

He died 10 minutes ago. Thanks though

 

[Dom]

Yes - sorry, but that's a very significant wound. Eels have great healing powers, but if the wound goes down into the peritoneal area (the gut, if you will) the chance for recovery is much less. For now, you just want to give it a safe place to try to recover. Antibiotics would be the next step - to ward off infection.

Care to speculate on the mechanism of injury?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Care to speculate on the mechanism of injury?

Sorry - I can't say. It might have been due to its travel into the sump, since there were no tankmates that could have caused this.

 

[BryanM]

Sorry to hear, I was hoping for a better outcome.

 

[BadAngel14]

Care to speculate on the mechanism of injury?

Yeah. On the overflow there is a slot where the pipe for the return is supposed to be. On the bottom of that slot is a little piece of sharp plastic. My guess is he went over that and cut himself and then went down into the sump

 

[BadAngel14]

Sorry to hear, I was hoping for a better outcome.

Me too. Thanks

 

[vetteguy53081]

He died 10 minutes ago. Thanks though

Sorry to hear and was likely deep into vital organ area

 

[MnFish1]

He died 10 minutes ago. Thanks though

So sorry to hear. I'm not sure you could have done much differently

 

[BadAngel14]

So sorry to hear. I'm not sure you could have done much differently

Thanks. It really sucks because I had been wanting one for so long and finally got him

 

[MnFish1]

Can we back up - and can you think of things that might have happened?

 

[BadAngel14]

Can we back up - and can you think of things that might have happened?

In regards to what exactly?

 

[MnFish1]

In regards to what exactly?

In other words history - step by step - that wound was not there when you bought the fish - I was just asking what did you see in between then and today

 

[BadAngel14]

In other words history - step by step - that wound was not there when you bought the fish - I was just asking what did you see in between then and today

Gotcha. Nothing before today. I woke up

 

[BadAngel14]

In other words history - step by step - that wound was not there when you bought the fish - I was just asking what did you see in between then and today

Last night he was fine. This morning when I woke up he was in the bottom instead of being in the display tank up top where I usually was. I scooped them out with a net and realized that he was moving very slow when I went to scoop him. Which is why I called him so easily when I finally got him and then that I realized that he had the injury. So it happens sometime between last night and this morning. Before today he was fine. He was moving around the tank trying new holes and rocks and moving in and out of stuff.