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Yanbbrox

Monster hole digger
MFK Member
I'm not sure if this is in the right place but GAD isn't so here it is.

To the people who know me here's what happen yesterday to one of the sturgeon.

For people who don't, I've recently completed a 4800 usg koi pond project but I've also got 4 sturgeon in there. A week or so back I put a net over it to stop herons and cats getting at the fish.

Now I thought about this a lot, the net over the pond theoretically at the perfect angle, could allow a cat to get a paw through, but to do this and get a fish out has got to be one of those million to one chances.


Sunday, nice and warm nothing much happening, the wife is watching a film downstairs and I'm relaxing MFKing upstairs and then I here a cry from the wife shouting 'quickly'. I go downstairs to find one of our cats laying one of our diamond sturgeons
dead on the living room floor.



Anyway, I've learned so much over the years from this site I immediately grabbed a bucket, filled it with pond water and placed the fish in. After asking the wife to get me a powerhead off any tank I held the fish up in the water the right way as she did this. Nothing happened it just remained limp in the water but I was not giving up. I've read so many threads about running powerheads through the gills on here I thought it was worth a shot.

She brought a powerhead over and plugged it in and I held the fish up so the water could flow through and after 5 or so minutes it moved and was starting to show signs of life so I moved my hand away and it went back to the dead position floating around in the flow. So again I moved the fish righted back into the flow and it again it moved. I held it there for a good 15 minutes and tried it again, this time it did swim after going into the dead position. Swim for a few seconds, die, swim again, at this point I was thinking it might recover.

To cut a very long story short, after doing 15 minute shifts of holding it up right for about an hour, it was almost free swimming. Out came the powerhead and in went a airstone. We added a myxazin
treatment at double dose and left the fish for another 3 hours checking on it every 15 minutes or so. The first hour it was floating and then swimming after that it was back as normal.

Back into the pond it went, swimming nicely the treament has sealed any wounds and I'm hoping it should recover fully. There was a nasty pucture wound near the tail and some under belly damage but I think it was mostly down to shock.

This fish would be dead now if it was not for MFK and I thank the site and memebers for the info I've gained over the years.

Some snaps of the recovery. thanks for reading:
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zennzzo;3159873; said:
Sturgeon CPR great save Brother...

mkman;3159884; said:
woohooo! Good save and quick thinking

Lucky Toman;3159886; said:
Nice save

basslover34;3159896; said:
:thumbsup: Nice save... literally!
Thanks guys, I've just been out watching the fish and have seen it, a bit skittish about coming to the surface for long but alive all the same, this pond balance stuff is doing nothing for clarity or I'd be able to see it at all times. I must have spent 2 hours looking for it today:irked:
 
Shweet mate!
 
good job
 
Nice!
 
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