Jumping Fish

[TrainRek77]

I came home today and my wife walked around for a few minutes then found she had one of my angelicus loach stuck to her foot? I think he jumped out while I was cleaning the tank last night. I checked all my water perimeters and everything seems fine. It was about a year old and has always been healthy. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[panda_cory]

Not specifically with a loach but one of my silver dollars jumped out during a cleaning but I managed to put it back in straight away

 

[ColR1948]

Loach are known for jumping, they are escape artists, there is a thread on here where another guy lost his Loach, he found it under the cabinet of his tank.

I keep waiting to read where one jumped back in but as yet no such luck lol.

 

[Mikey1]

certain types of fish are prone to be "jumpers", loaches are one of them along with tinfoil barbs, bala sharks, silver dollars just to name a few, i make sure to keep a VERY tight fitting cover on my tinfoil barb tank, or i would be finding them on the floor regularily,

 

[panda_cory]

Luckily all my tanks have lids so it's just when doing water changes I have to worry about.

 

[Bugdozer]

I have lined the inside of my tank lid with spikes. Natural selection FTW.