Michael7979 Posted December 3, 2006 Posted December 3, 2006 Well some of you have seen my setup and know that I have a skimmer box to hold my skimmer. This sits behind my tank and holds the skimmer, heater, and a powerhead, (pretty packed box). Anyways I wake up this morning to see that my,(5"+/-), rabbitfish isn't in the tank. Can't find him anywhere. So I go to look behind the tank, of course thinking the worse. thinking I'm going to find fish jerky. But to my suprise he/she is in the skimmer box!! Gray as all get out and pissed!!! But he is know back in the tank and appears OK but I won't be sure for a day or two. Don't know how he made it out of a 2' gap to get out of the tank and then was lucky enough to fall off in the right spot to land in the skimmer box. BUT AT LEAST HE DID!!!!!!!!!! Quote
fly guy Posted December 3, 2006 Posted December 3, 2006 Maybe he just wanted to see what was down there?? Glad he was fine. : ) I had TWO Tile surfers last week. : ( The first two jumpers i have ever had....the cold tile wasnt near as forgiving : ( Quote
Chief Posted December 3, 2006 Posted December 3, 2006 I had a six-line wrasse jump last week. Why do they jump? DOH! Jay Quote
fly guy Posted December 3, 2006 Posted December 3, 2006 I had a six-line wrasse jump last week. Why do they jump? DOH! Jay i dont know.....my six line that is currently in my 225 i have had for a year and a half..the first 6 months in glass open topped tanks.....he has never jumped........i hear that they are very known for jumping though The two that jumped last week were a yellow coris and a carpenters when I was out of town for thanksgiving...........i think they missed me. : ) i guess it wasnt EXACTLY last week...but close enough ; ) Quote
mister crabs Posted December 4, 2006 Posted December 4, 2006 maybe they wanted to go with butcouldnt catch you before you got outta the driveway? Quote
Ronjunior Posted December 4, 2006 Posted December 4, 2006 Why do they jump? DOH! Jay To get to the other side Quote
Michael7979 Posted December 4, 2006 Author Posted December 4, 2006 As of now all is well............hopefully things stay that way. I'll check in the morning. Quote
impur Posted December 4, 2006 Posted December 4, 2006 Good to hear Mike. You got lucky I had a sixline, for like 2 hours. Mine was a quick jumper. Quote
nu2reef-n Posted December 4, 2006 Posted December 4, 2006 Have you thought of putting eggcrate on the back of your tank. You should be able to hang it from the inside of your canopy, so it hangs down to the top of your tank. Quote
Ronjunior Posted December 4, 2006 Posted December 4, 2006 Favorite reef fish sport; carpet surfing. Maybe fish are smarter than we think and we need to stop showing Finding Nemo from viewing distance of our tanks! Quote
Michael7979 Posted December 5, 2006 Author Posted December 5, 2006 I do have eggcrate on the back of the tank. But there is a 1.5-2" gap at the bottom. So he must of jumped, landed on the top bracing, then wiggled under/thru the gap, and fell into the skimmer box. We were both lucky!! Quote
Michael7979 Posted December 5, 2006 Author Posted December 5, 2006 BTW he is doing great today! Quote
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