Well this moring when the wife came in from work she stopped to look
at her new Red and White Comets and her shubunkin. I had watched them
last night for over 2 hours in her 1/2 barrel planter. None made any
attempt at jumping. They were relatively very very friendly. They ate
great, and then this moring the wife could only see a shubunkin andone
comet in the tub. I went outside and found the other comet on the
ground, still breathing. I placed it in the tub, and it swam off and
dropped to the bottom like a rock, and rolled over on its side and
there it stayed..

Figured its history now........went into tell the wife I found the
other fish, and decided since it appears to have made one final
attempt to swim and failed, I had better remove it from the water as
it more than likely is dead. So back out I went reached in (fish was
still in same spot) got ahold of it, and then just started to move the
fish back and forth in the water, and next thing off it went from
between my fingers and started to swim naturally. It made a few laps
around the container, and then joined up with the other two fish, and
seemed to be doing ok. What is the chances it will survive? I have no
idea how long it was out of the water to begin with. When it jumped
out it hit mulch so it was not a hard surface, and it did eventually
flop around enough outside to get to the carpeted area, where I found
it.

So is it reasonable to assume it may survive? How far from the lip of
the container should I keep the water. It was approx 2" from top of
water to the lip on the container.
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