Will my goatfish survive?

[fishguy777]

I spooked him when adding a new fish. He jumped out the back (lid was off), fell over 60” to a hard tile ground.

Because he went out the back it took me like 2 minutes to grab him and put him in my sump.

I had to revive him by holding him and manually force water through his gills, after that he was swimming and spiraling. No control over himself.

I then did the same manually forcing him to breathe thing again, to which he was then able to sit upright.

This was yesterday. As of today he’s able to sit upright, and swim but not for long distances.

I haven’t seen him eat, and he isn’t very aware of when I’m near him.

Does anyone have experience with this sorta thing?

 

[smitten with ocean life]

#reefsquad

 

[Rocks reef]

I would observe it and let it recover. It should recover just fine.

 

[Staghorn]

Same thing happened to me with a Midas blenny just recently, took me forever to get him from behind the tank and he looked like mouse from all the dust on him. Unfortunately he didn’t make it , the next day he was dead. Wishing your goatfish much health and luck.

 

[fishguy777]

Same thing happened to me with a Midas blenny just recently, took me forever to get him from behind the tank and he looked like mouse from all the dust on him. Unfortunately he didn’t make it , the next day he was dead. Wishing your goatfish much health and luck.

Yep. Found him dead last night, even from the outside, there looked like an indent in his back, tons of scales missing etc.

 

[JumboShrimp]

Spinal cord type injury? Sorry for your loss.

 

[fishguy777]

Spinal cord type injury? Sorry for your loss.

Thankyou. I believe it was spinal cord. As well as brain damage from the fall, and possibly from oxygen loss.