Do picasso clowns jump out of tanks??
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All my fish have all been pretty calm as far as trying to jump out and carpet surf for quite some time now...but the other night I was watching my Midas and Starry Blennies going at it and then all of a sudden, like lightening striking "THUMP"... the stinking Starry was chasing the Midas so hard and that the Midas hit my lid X2 (acrylic tank). Actually hit it so hard that the lid moved! If that lid wasn't on he would have hit my front entry door! lol... you never know when it's going to happen.
I've had the same thing happen with my wrasses, scares the bejesus out of me every time.
I hate removing the lid because they get frightened every time I do, lost my yellow canary wrasse that way, and my exquisite jumped out last time I floated a bag to add new additions. And unfortunately my tank is on tile, so that 4 foot drop usually cripples them beyond recovery...
I hate removing the lid because they get frightened every time I do, lost my yellow canary wrasse that way, and my exquisite jumped out last time I floated a bag to add new additions. And unfortunately my tank is on tile, so that 4 foot drop usually cripples them beyond recovery...
i do miss my nice b&w pair too. I was a dumb mistake on my part. Introduced them the first time into my DT with a pair of existing tomato clowns. Things looked good so I left for a bit and came back not seeing them. Looked down and found the first one, semi-dried. I tossed him into the fuge and he sunk to the bottom. Then I couldn't find the second one til I looked behind my tank. There, I found her half dried too, covered in dust/lint. I toss her into the fuge too and she sank. But after a couple of minutes, both revived and the next morning acted like nothing happend. I suspect this first time, they were out of the water for only like 5-7minutes.
Unfortunately, I still didn't learn and reintroduced the B&W clowns into the tank a couple of months later. Things looked good to for the first 3-4 hours. I stepped away a couple of hours and came back home with two dried fish jerky this time.
Since then, I lost one fire fish, one nice fat six-line, and a nice looking blue-throat trigger to carpet surfing. The trigger was the one that got me into orderng and building a lid to cover my tank :-(.
Lesson for me was that fishes will jump due to evironemental stress or just because...
Unfortunately, I still didn't learn and reintroduced the B&W clowns into the tank a couple of months later. Things looked good to for the first 3-4 hours. I stepped away a couple of hours and came back home with two dried fish jerky this time.
Since then, I lost one fire fish, one nice fat six-line, and a nice looking blue-throat trigger to carpet surfing. The trigger was the one that got me into orderng and building a lid to cover my tank :-(.
Lesson for me was that fishes will jump due to evironemental stress or just because...
