Jumping Percula

[Jay]

Has anyone ever had a Percula jump out the tank? Seems kind of odd to me but I found mine on the floor stiff as a board. He was like the OG :help: (this smile looks like a hood to me) of the tank to. Always got along with everyone so I found it Odd to find him on the floor. Had him since the days of the 2.5 gallon Picotope. Just wondering if anyone has had this experience.

 

[nahtanoj]

i've only lost a chromis to the jump. i'm pretty sure a damsel i had was chasing him and he escaped, but not in a good way.

 

[Jay]

I have had a couple jumpers to, also from a damnsel punk. Had a wrasse chase another wrasse out the tank to, I was bummed about that as it was a really cool Christmas wrasse, :dontknow: but it was just odd to me that the perc. jumped. He lived threw everything and got alon fine. Just odd.

 

[EyeReef]

i had a ocellaris jump out of a qt tank..he was on the lid when I found him..I went to my room and cried..my first causality:bawling:

 

[Onesaltydawg]

They jump out if they are overly stressed

 

[seabanshee]

Overly stressed... or something.

I lost a mandarin gobi on Thursday as a result of a slight miscalculation of tank height (who knew mandarins were jumpers???!!!).

Shay

 

[Onesaltydawg]

My Mandarin stays at the bottom of the tank most of the time

 

[seabanshee]

My mandarin stayed at the bottom of the tank too, and although it would occasionally swim up at the top with the seahorses, I never expected it to jump.

And the kicker is, 95% of the tank is covered with an acrylic strip - I just left a few inches open for ventilation & feeding.

Murphy's Laws and fishes.

Shay

 

[Onesaltydawg]

thanks for the info...now to buy new egg crate to cover entire tank top

 

[coachfraley]

My O. Clown jumped into the back chambers of my cube, and I had to fish him out. I now have them covered with gutter guard, so hopefully he will flip himself back into the water if he jumps out.

 

[Onesaltydawg]

Mine did that one day...I could not find him and I searched the floor...then I looked in the overflow and found him...I did the same about covering it

 

[Mark82]

I hope it works.

 

[Onesaltydawg]

egg crate works great since it allows the light to still go through