Help My Blue Congo Tetra got stuck in a hole

On Sunday I bought 2 Blue Congo Tetras when I came home from work last night one of them had tried to swim threw a hole in the ornamental castle which was too small for it and proceeded to get stuck. I managed to get it out but it has some slight damage just behind it's head and has now gone into hiding. is their anything I can do to prevent it becoming infected? Or do I just need to keep my fingures crossed and hope it's okay?

Try some melafix its good for cuts and scrapes

As alison suggested John, a dose of Melafix & Pimafix (both natural remedies) for anti-bacterial and anti-fungal purposes will help in the healing process.

The most important thing though is to make sure your water is pristine so do a water change before you add any treatment, dose for a week and then do another water change afterwards. That should give the fish a good head start in healing any injury.

Thanks for that. I have a bottle of Interpet general tonic will that do the same job?

Probably won't hurt but is less natural than melafix.

Thanks again.

as mentioned Melafix will help.

hope its ok

Fish have a habit of doing this sort of thing. One of my goldfish swam into an ornament and couldnt turn round to swim out again. Fortunately I was able to get it out ok, but I am now really careful about the size of the openings in any ornaments.

I think I remember reading about a fish that got stuck in an ornament and the only way to get it out was with a jig saw

Surprisingly the fish survived

Poor fish, hope he recovers. Maybe leave the lights off so he can chill in the dark a bit

Unfortunatly found it dead this afternoon .

Oh thats a shame john. Perhaps its time for a rethink of the interior design. Ive had to do that a few times because of similar things too

Sorry to hear that John.

Don't know if it was one of my fish Diana heard about? One of my spiney eels got stuck in a rock and my other half had to use a jigsaw to get him out. He's still going strong a year or so later.

indigoj wrote:

Sorry to hear that John.

Don't know if it was one of my fish Diana heard about? One of my spiney eels got stuck in a rock and my other half had to use a jigsaw to get him out. He's still going strong a year or so later.

Thanks.
That sounds like a bit of a delicate operation.
Can't decide whether to replace the castle with something else or not, it's been in their for years and this is the 1st time something like this has happened.

You could just put a lock on the door :lol:

Aw, sorry to hear that John. It could've been the shock and stress of the experience rather than the actual injury that killed it. I lost a fish in a similar way when it got stuck inside an ornament and I didn't notice until too late. To avoid it happening again, I plugged up the hole with a stone - maybe you could do something similar.

Diana wrote:

You could just put a lock on the door :lol:

You don't happen to know a good locksmith do you :lol: ?

I think i'll go with marys suggestion and put stones over the holes, sounds like the cheaper option