how many have had fish jump from tank?

[bob_purdue]

I go away for a weekend and when i come back i look into my tank and i'm like... hmm i wonder where my other maroon clown is? look all around even put some food in to get them out... nothing. step back a bit from my tank and hear a crunch. i figure its just dog biscuit on the floor. i reach down to pick it up and there is my year and half old maroon clown shriveled up . i leave my tank lid open during the day usually and close it at night and i've had him for over a year and he's never even moved fast let alone jumped.
its been an all around bad month for me and fish. just AFTER i lost my purple square anthias. i bought a psychedelic to replace those to buts he's just not the same.

 

[stupid_naso]

Sorry to hear your loss. I just lost a sixline not so long ago. Well they're not the same, but at least they're there when you look at the tank right? Nothing can replace the old one.
stupid_naso

 

[aquarius 1]

I had a niger trigger jump out of my tank for know apparent reason because if anything he was the king of the tank. I also had a pair of perculas that jumped out at like 2 in the morning but i luckily heard the splash and the splat on a cardboard box which woke me up in time to throw them back into the tank. When setting up a tank, you should make sure that most open areas are tightly secured and I wound't leave the tank lid open anymore.

 

[porcupinepuffer]

wow, I had so many things jump out of my tank. My Pacu jumped out once, my firefish jumped out once, my peppermint shrimp jumped out once too!!

 

[sask]

My bi-colour blennie also went carpet surfing. I was in denial thinking he was just hiding in his holes as usual. But when the brine shrimp didn't bring him out....... I faced reality and there he was dried to a crisp!

 

[sinner's girl]

there a few damsels that jumped in the 25gl but none so far in teh 55gl. (knock on wood)
sorry for your lose. maybe fish have problems too...and that fish just didn't want to live anymore. or maybe he wanted to know what life outside the tank was. or maybe another fish dared him to jump...

 

[clarkiiboi]

I traded in my snowflake eel to the LFS and guess what it jumped out of their tank, but survived.

 

[jonthefb]

I had a squarespot anthia jump, a flame hawk, and i think that was about it. There were probably a couple more, but cant think of em right now. I leave the glass off the top of my tank to allow better gas exchange in the water, and usually have the hood lifted a little to keep temps down. the flame hawk, i am at a loss as to why he jumped out, but it is my understanding that squarespot anthias, come from deeper, darker water in the wild. I wonder if placing them in a well illuminated aquarium filled to the brim with growing corals just doesnt work for them. Now dispar anthias on the other hand are shallow reef fish, and do fine in brightly illuminated tanks. I am just wondering if the squares, and several other anthia species that come from deeper waters need a specialset up to accommodate for this. anywho, its just my own little theory, and its probably not right, and ill never get to test it, but sorry about the loss, and if you do want to keep anthias, i would reccommend either the dispar or coopers anthias. Good luck
jon

 

[eclipseagent]

I have yet to have a fish jump out. I just recently set up my saltwater tank though.
But still after several months no flying fish in my freshwater tank.

 

[catera]

A clip from big eyed fish from dave matthews band......
look at this big eyed fish swimming in the sea, wants to be a bird swooping and diving in the breeze, one day got a big old wave up onto the beach now the fish is dead you see, every fish should know to stay in the sea. oh god under the wieght of life things seem brighter on the other side.

 

[blennybabe]

I had my Royal Gramma jump after about a month. I had done a water change and the bucket full of old water was still sitting next to the tank. I waited a few days to dump that water (I'm so lazy). The very night I dumped it, the gramma jumped out and landed in the dry bucket. If only I had been a little more lazy...

 

[jawfish177]

1 yellowhead jawfish and 1 blue-dot jawfish
i'm still mourning the blue-dot's suicide...

 

[wrassecal]

I've had a firefish jump out and a green brittle star climb out Found the brittle star dried out behind the tank stand.

 

[hondo]

had a Scotts Fairy wrasse jump out recently and lost him.
Prior to that I had an agreesive tank and the picaso trigger was a major carpet surfer but only when there was activity around the outside of the tank so he was easy to pick up and put back in. Also had a Snow Flake Eel that I noticed going across the carpet toward the TV one day while I was watching the ball game, not sure what he was doing but he was pretty determined.

 

[sgt__york]

Sinners Girls - ROFLMAO!!! lol hillarious i love it
I've only had perculas jump tanks - but that was due to harrassment by others. I made the mistake of try'n to school em with 6 in a 75 gallon. Ah.. I was new to it - what did i know.
They ganged up on 1 - killed him. Chased 2 more out of the tank (and you would understand how IMPRESSIVE that is - if you saw how closed my hood is.. LOL - just have 4 small cirlces on one end to let AIR IN so the fans can pull air thru the tank -- each hole is abouat 5" above the water line and about 1.5" in diamater. If i knew the clowns were that talented, i've had put em in a circus and made some money off em. I should be glad they didn't choose the other side of the tank where the fans are and made minced clown outta themselves). I finally got smart and returned the 4th one before they put out a hit on him. The remaining 2 were happy for years and years.
If your fish are near a TV and watch the news - perhaps you are exposing them to too much violence? Maybe they had a nightmare from their instincts of expected predators that never come - PMS - the boogy-predator syndrome.
I still like the "maybe another fish dared them" lol hahaha
My best "GUESS" is - something in the water quality (perhaps toxins emmitted by a coral or something) just got to em - maybe too much at one time, etc. Need for more oxygen or something internally wrong just made them swim fast and jump to 'escape' whatever was wrong. If you honestly ever DISCOVER this question, maybe you will have insights into why WHALES beach themselves. Or why large squids beach themselves (like in the article that happend recently in california- as seen below).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._dying_squid_2
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...o_kgtv/1269462