I hate carpet surfers!!!

[bobssecrtsn]

As title says, I also have a screen top around my entire tank and this little lyretail anthia manage to jump from the feeder hole where my apex feeder goes into! Out of all the places :mad:


anyone else hate how fish manage to escape the smallest holes possible?!

 

[Rick.45cal]

My Carpenter's wrasse recently made "the big leap". He landed on the cold wood floor, I was busy and by the time I came back, I was just a bit too late. It sucks losing fish and corals no matter how it happens!

 

[CoralNerd]

I lost my Blue Flasher Wrasse today [emoji30]
He landed on my coast to coast overflow and I had a wire for my Gyre that kind of blocked him from flopping back in.

Also just about to loose a Copperband Butterflyfish that never ate. Bummer day.

 

[bobssecrtsn]

I lost my Blue Flasher Wrasse today [emoji30]
He landed on my coast to coast overflow and I had a wire for my Gyre that kind of blocked him from flopping back in.

Also just about to loose a Copperband Butterflyfish that never ate. Bummer day.

I feel your pain. After QTing the fishes with no lid for 3 weeks and feeding them like kings they go flying with a screen top installed!!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Hate it! Sorry!

 

[morpheas]

My midas blenny jumped out after I performed a water change. I didn't notice for quite some time and when I saw him I thought he was dead. Then when I went to pick him up he started moving so I put him back in. He survived for months and I thought he learned his lesson but one day I came back home and found him on the floor dried up....


Somewhat irrelevant, but funny story. I have fresh water tanks as well and one of my favorite creatures are crayfish. I purchased a red small one one day and put him in the tank and a couple of days later I lost him. Never found him or his carcass. One day over six months later, I was cleaning my washer/dryer room and there he was, behind the dryer all dried up, a mummy. That room is like 30 feet from the tank across the living room and dining room so he definitely went for a walk, poor guy!

 

[Tahoe61]

My BJF jumped through a hole the size of a nickle, boy that made me mad. Some fish are for whatever reason driven to jump out. There is no way my fish just got lucky, or unlucky.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Bdog4u2]

If it wasn't for jumpers I'd never lose a fish.

 

[sneub]

Its amazing how these fish find the smallest holes and shoot themselves right through out onto the floor, I had a fire fish perform the same stunt through a slight opening on my screen top that was not perfectly seated on top of the tank correctly.

 

[cracker]

Why are they wanting to jump out?

 

[CoralNerd]

How about trash can lurkers

Going to be mulch for the city now.