Thisisfine
Active Member
I'm going to acknowledge now that yes, we can't talk to fish and ask them why but anyone have some good thoughts on why fish would begin to jump after a decent residency in your tank?
I had, as of yesterday, a pair of engineer gobies for roughly 8, 10, 12 months, can't remember, but they've grown from a couple of inches to roughly 6-7 inches. Both jumped early this morning and with one jumping when I was up to hear it. I was able to save him but the first jumper was too far gone.
The remaining one has been out a little more today than usual and started to spaz when I turned to wavemakers down to feed mode. He kept swimming up and down and against the side of the glass. I decided to put the oddly misshapen DIY net cover on and in the process he jumped again, this time behind the tank. Luckily I was able to get him from behind the tank and back in though not quickly, looked rough, assuming that was slime coat sloughing off but he swam back down to one of his caves.
What can/should I check for beyond stray voltage?
I check parameters this morning after it happened to confirm there were no oddities in the standard testing. Ammonia, Nitrites 0ppm, nitrate 10ppm, salinity 1.025, pH 8.4.
Inhabitants: 1 oscellaris clown, 1 mandarin, 1 lawnmower blenny. No other fish displaying odd behavior though I did lose (literally cannot find) an oscellaris that had been in there roughly 12 months.
Tank: Prostar 60 - 42g DT, 13g Sump
Recent changes: Aiptasia population increasing, drainpipe developed a strange gurgle. I did a thorough cleaning of glass, what I could of top of drain pipe, moved some sand due to a couple of cyano patches yesterday, cleaned filter sock.
I had, as of yesterday, a pair of engineer gobies for roughly 8, 10, 12 months, can't remember, but they've grown from a couple of inches to roughly 6-7 inches. Both jumped early this morning and with one jumping when I was up to hear it. I was able to save him but the first jumper was too far gone.
The remaining one has been out a little more today than usual and started to spaz when I turned to wavemakers down to feed mode. He kept swimming up and down and against the side of the glass. I decided to put the oddly misshapen DIY net cover on and in the process he jumped again, this time behind the tank. Luckily I was able to get him from behind the tank and back in though not quickly, looked rough, assuming that was slime coat sloughing off but he swam back down to one of his caves.
What can/should I check for beyond stray voltage?
I check parameters this morning after it happened to confirm there were no oddities in the standard testing. Ammonia, Nitrites 0ppm, nitrate 10ppm, salinity 1.025, pH 8.4.
Inhabitants: 1 oscellaris clown, 1 mandarin, 1 lawnmower blenny. No other fish displaying odd behavior though I did lose (literally cannot find) an oscellaris that had been in there roughly 12 months.
Tank: Prostar 60 - 42g DT, 13g Sump
Recent changes: Aiptasia population increasing, drainpipe developed a strange gurgle. I did a thorough cleaning of glass, what I could of top of drain pipe, moved some sand due to a couple of cyano patches yesterday, cleaned filter sock.
