R.I.P. Lil Flame Back Angel Buddy

[Subliminal]

Man.

I was looking at my tank after work yesterday, and everything looked great.

I come back in the room about 20 minutes later and everything looks great, but somethings missing.

Finally I realize my flame back is nowhere to be seen...and he's not bashful.

So, I keep looking, and I think my anemone is so friggin big now, maybe he got himself a good meal...but he doesn't look all retracted like he would if he ate a fish the size of a silver dollar.

So I look, I look, and I find him....


On the floor under the back of the tank.

DAMNIT!

That lil fella had to jump up and go out through a 3/8 inch slot between my tank and my HOB fuge.

Couldn't have jumped in the fuge, eh, lil buddy?

And I bought this fish specifically because I didn't think it'd be a jumper.

 

[Phyl]

Aww. Sorry to hear about your loss. Nothing worse than a jumper making a point of getting out of the SMALLEST of holes.

I had an angel jump up onto a cross brace once. :'( It made it 90% across the brace and stopped. What a sad sight.

 

[AnDom1]

Sorry Sub...It's no fun when that happens...I had a beautiful Neon Pseudo jump out of a similarly small opening when I stepped away from the tank for a minute. Didn't notice he was gone 'til the next day.

Dom

 

[Jcurry@wesketch]

I had the same problem with a few wrasses, though my cat used to finish off any of the carpet surfers. On the plus side his coat was always nice and shiney.

 

[Subliminal]

That's specifically why I didn't get a wrasse. Stupid angelfish...stay in the WATER.

 

[Brian]

Sorry to hear that, I just recently had my Lineatus Wrasse jump out of a 1" x 1" hole I had in my egg crate...I don't understand fish sometimes!

 

[MikeNapoli]

Sorry to hear that Damon. That's one of the things I'm most afraid of happening in my tank.

 

[Hawkeye]

A little off topic but my daughter was in the car with us and we drove by our neighbor's Halloween tombstone decorations and she asks...

"Who's RIP"?



Yeah - nothing like talking about life/death with a 5 yr old...