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This morning, I heard a splash come from the lounge just before I got out of bed. I figured it was the Clowns saying "Come and feed us!".

Later, I'm cooking my breakfast and I look across at the Sewellia tank because the light just came on. There's a Botia kubotai doing the loachy-dance up and down the glass!

How the hell.?...........



Now the 6 foot tank (left) is basically open. Never lost anything but one Danio. You can see the distance to the Sewellia tank is slightly more than the width of a CD box. The fish jumped out of the 6 foot and of all the places it could have gone it dropped through a 5" x 5" open area in the left front corner of the Sewellia tank.

Here's the little booger having fun in the current.



So now I'm going to have to rip half the decor out of the tank in order to remove the stupid (lucky) fish.

I guess trick or treating started early today

Martin.

What a lucky little loachie! I bet he's having a field day in the river tank! I wonder what the Sewellia thought when the intruder 'dropped in' on them?! Best of luck in catching him out of there.

Emma

And he's fine?

Strange that when you bring a new one home you have to float the bag to equalise temps but when they do it themselves they are fine...

It was only a 1.5 degree F difference. This Sewellia tank runs warm without any heater.

Martin.

lucky bugger...
I have lost two large modesta's due to jumping and then getting eaten by my cat. I think that is what happened to the two. My cat does not leave any evidence. Not even the fins.
I don't know if I have my old horseface as I haven't seen it for over two months but it was shy.
The cats know that the tanks drop fishy snacks everyonce in a while so I really never know what happens to missing fish. It is amazing just how small a hole a fish can make it threw.
Getting back to your fish Martin it is really cool how the guy jumped out the side not the front or the back that both seem to be open. The sides look part blocked from the light.

To me, it is just not worth the risk in having an uncovered loach tank. We've heard lots of stories from customers over the years who have lost fish in this way.

Emma

Martin, before you move it "back", ya might want to make sure it's not just a Hilly in costume

Lucky, Lucky, Lucky!!

Martin

I feel for ya. I had to catch around 100 fish from 4 tanks on Saturday. You know how hard it is to catch 18 cory hastatus and 9 pygmays. My wife and I were netting in shifts. Now Friday I will be moving all of my hillstreams, I am stocking up on fortitude as I type. Can you ask the Kubotai if he did the tripple lindy? Mabey you should set up a video camera.

Amazing diving skills. I wonder if he will try it again?

Emma Turner wrote:To me, it is just not worth the risk in having an uncovered loach tank. We've heard lots of stories from customers over the years who have lost fish in this way.

The risk seems to be related to the tank depth. If the tank is sufficiently deep , the fish will go down if spooked, if the tank is small/shallow, it may jump. I had rasboras and kuhlis(?!) jumping out of 10g, but even Danios in 65g show no intention to jump, so I don't bother covering it. I use 29g with lowered water levels for rivertanks rather than 20g in part to suppress jumping ideas.

All things considered he only had like a 6x6" square to land in that other tank.. you have to wonder if he knew what was going on and just had to know what was up in the apartment next door

That was my thinking...spent the last few days staring out the window of his tank at the other one...decided to go 'test the waters'. Apparently it was worth the trip...

it looks like its having fun but i have the feeling you wont good luck Martin. just hope he doesnt decide to go play in the current again

When my first fish called Zippy (some Veiltail Goldfish variation - never did quite find out what he was) lived at my nan's he lived in a round Goldfish bowl for a few years.
*I know they are the worst of the worst, but at the time we didn't know, actually he survived for 11 years despite not being kept in the best of conditions*

Anyway, she was terrified he would jump out, so she put a hairnet over the tank top.

Eventually he graduated to better tanks and actual filters and filtration systems and tanks with lids but unfortunately developed a problem where he was upside down and could not stay upright. We thought it was a swimbladder problem. He was also rather large and possibly had an internal problem too. : (