Missing fish shows up

[teresaq]

Anyone else have fish show up you though had died..
I have two clown gobies, a yellow and a black. I havent had the black long, and last week I couldnt find it. It wasnt hanging in the same spot it had been in previous days. I though oh well, it was so small, my big hermit must have gotten it, and I moved the hermit the the fuge.
Well yesterday, i am sitting at the computer, look over and there is my gobie. Its been a week since I have seen it.

Glad I didnt go buy another.

T

 

[larrynews]

i had one the lived in my over flow for 6 months, thought it was dead, and my watchmen gobie in the reef tank will disappear for months and then there he is...

 

[vayapues]

I have not lost a fish, but I have lost other things. I will think 'darn, I liked that critter' and then months and months later they will come back out of the blue.
One in particular a conch was gone for several months. I moved everything from one tank to another, and didn't see the critter. I was positive he was gone. Then after months passed on the new tank, one day I saw him crawling along. I was blown away.

 

[spanko]

I have a sixline wrasse that I put in the tank and did not see him again. I looked as hard as I could without taking everything out of the tank. Magnifying glass that whole shot. Just as I was about to give up and try to find another one out he comes like nothing ever happened. 7 days hiding in a 29 gallon biocube. Could not find him.
Sometimes this hobby is amazing.

 

[jhuggins]

I purchased a fairy wrasse about 2 months ago. It is about 6 inches long. beautiful fish. It went missing for 2 weeks. I looked everywhere. How could a 6 inch fish hide in a 75 gallon tank? Well low and behold he came out for company this weekend. Now if I could get him to eat the flat worms he is supposed to eat?

 

[grabbitt]

I never had a fish go MIA and return, but I have had that happen with my boxer crab. I would only see him about once or twice a week (which is typical for boxers). But there was about a month that it completely disappeared which made me worry that my hawkfish had eaten him. Yet sure enough, a couple days later, there he was walking along the front of the tank trying to get in on the sun coral's mysis feeding.
Ironically, minutes into this process, I witnessed perhaps the coolest and simultaneously saddest thing I have seen occur in my tank: my red-banded hawk swooped down off his precious tree-sponge perch and nabbed the crab in one bite.
The anemones he was carrying must have looked more like a garnish to the hawkfish than a deterrent.
RIP little dude

 

[teresaq]

Poor little crab

 

[75bownut]

I bought this radiant wrasse and he went MIA for about 1 month when I first bought him. Given up for dead he reappeared to my shock and hes been out ever since. I thought he jumped out or became crab food.

 

[vayapues]

Originally Posted by GRabbitt
http:///forum/post/2479157
I never had a fish go MIA and return, but I have had that happen with my boxer crab. I would only see him about once or twice a week (which is typical for boxers). But there was about a month that it completely disappeared which made me worry that my hawkfish had eaten him. Yet sure enough, a couple days later, there he was walking along the front of the tank trying to get in on the sun coral's mysis feeding.
Ironically, minutes into this process, I witnessed perhaps the coolest and simultaneously saddest thing I have seen occur in my tank: my red-banded hawk swooped down off his precious tree-sponge perch and nabbed the crab in one bite.
The anemones he was carrying must have looked more like a garnish to the hawkfish than a deterrent.
RIP little dude

lol. Sorry, but that is funny.

 

[mx#28]

I had a golden headed sleeper goby that went into the tank and just disapeared. I wrote him off and forgot all about him until about 5 or 6 months later, he just swam out of the rocks and was never shy again. Startled the hell out of me.
I've also had a few clowns and a mandarin hop into the overflow for a few weeks until I found them and got them back out, but the goby was still the craziest.

 

[chrgerondavins]

I had a pencil urchin that dissapeared for about 9 months that re-appeared

 

[mkzimms]

a few months ago i came home to find my percula clown completely missing from my 12 gal aquapod! i searched and searched, under rocks, in the back of the tank... everywhere! he was nowhere to be found. i tested water everyday, no ammonia spike, nothing, and with subsequent searches for about a week i eventually came the to conclusion that he had been picked clean by the hermits and he was gone for good. But in my heart i still had a glimmer of hope that he'd be found
so a friend came over and we began to frag some zoos when he nonchalantly looked over at me and asked why i was keeping a fish in the back chambers. i took a peak and there was Twinkie looking up at me from behind the pump return. well, the rescue mission ensued. short of calling in the national guard we lured him to the surface with some mysis shrimp and popped him back over the wall into his rightful home where he immediately resumed guarding over his favorite mushroom. he looked great and hadn't even lost any weight.
he must have made his way down to the mysterious 4th chamber below the 3 vertical chambers and disappeared from sight being scared off every time i went to look for him. so for over a month he lived there... no light, endured an 8 hour power outage and ate scraps off the few pieces of rubble rock kept in the chambers.
i have under gone the process of legally changing his name to Houdini!

 

[iluvswfish]

I hope that is what is going on with my yellow clown goby. I haven't seen him in about a week.

 

[confusedfishy]

I too hope to one day find my 3 missing emerald crabs. I bought the tank from a friend and for the first month the crabs were out alot, I could see them at least a few times a week...for the last month or so I haven't been able to find them! I would love to be amazed!