Suicidal Fish!

[MojoDex]

one of my reed fish escaped last month luckily i was by the tank doing maintenance, i just fogured i had lid open and it saw an oportunity fair enough fish is stupid i can deal with that i thought!

yesterday cleaning around my tank i happen to look under the tank and find a completley dried up reed fish, the gap its got out of can only of been 5mm and this fish was the thickness of a finger!

anyway has anyone else had any experiences like this with fish that just didnt want to live?

 

[Angel98]

Yep i had a white molly and he decided to escape after a day of having him! He was about 5cm long. He was very lively and i litrally have a 4cm where my filter comes in and he jumped out of it and i found him the next day all dried up

 

[centuryan]

i once had a red tailed shark that lasted two days then suddenly disapeared, i stripped the tank about bare looking for him???
a day after wondering what had hapend to him i looked behind the tank and saw him laying there all dried up,
to this day the wife and i are baffled to how he got out

 

[modaz]

ive got an albino catfish that goes like grease lightening, when feeding i have to put his food in first to keep him on the bottom otherwise he will exit the water at great speed and been thinking of entering him into the UK olympic swimming team (not that he would stay in the water long) maybe he's more suited to the RAF. it,s even worse when i have to do a water change

 

[t.ropical_m.istx3]

my leopard cory swam as hard as he could into the side of the tank . funny and sad at the same time - when you hear how my friend pictured it. she said "i pictured him backing across the tank and just swimming as fast as he could into the side of the tank"

 

[MarleyBetta]

i had a zebra danio in a tank w/ a shell w/ a hole on the end. the dumb fish continually tried to kill it self by swimming throughand literally strangling itself....even after it was (gentlly) pulled outit kept doing it till it died wierd huh?

 

[cjohnston]

I had a swordtail that jumped out of the tank whilt I was cleaning, managed to get her back in and she survived

 

[Torrean]

rtbs are notorious tank jumpers. Especially for the first couple days that you have the little guys. Not surprised at all that yours jumped.

 

[Jozlyn]

I had a guppy for a few weeks, went to feed them one night, one of the guppies gone, i just couldn't figure out where it could've gone, I checked everywhere, I thought. My husband found him the next day well under the tank stand and thoroughly mummified! I still have no idea how he managed to get out.

 

[stang1]

While I was cleaning my tank I had a Harlequin jump out of the tank. I quickly got a net and put him back in the tank and thankfully he was fine!

 

[Joemuz]

My khuli loach (lucky) had gone missing after a few days of havin him, he was later found behind the filter.
Another time he was missing for a few days when suddenly i saw him swimming around behing the green plastic of my filter, i was in total dispare!
I got him out and he was fine, i touched him gently to check he was alright and he shot off up the side of the tank and out under my bed!
1 minute had passed when i finally found him, he was covered in fluff and i held him by the fluff in the water where he happily swam off.
He has been fine ever since the incident 7 months ago.
Cheers, Joemuz

 

[CFC]

When i first bred my snakeheads we would find young 1-2" snakeheads all around the house where they had got out of the tiniest of gaps in the cover and then hopped across the floor in their bids for freedom, we would find them litterally everywhere from under the sofa in the front room to the washing machine in the kitchen and the laundry basket in the bedroom. I've since learnt that if there is a gap no matter how small they will get out of it so now i cut plastic covers to fit tightly around everything.

Over the years i've had all the usual suspects jump out of tanks over night, African butterfly fish, spiny eels, bichirs and bala sharks have all ended up dried up on the carpet at some point

 

[QuotheRaven]

I had a spiny eel escape from seemingly no hole's but lifted up a plastic guard that was blocking a hole...I have had swordtail's and platie's escape aswell as a Yoyo Loach and Kuhlii loach

 

[MHunt]

My only escapee to date was a neon who got a bit too excited at feeding time and decided to jump. Luckily it landed on the lip of the hood so i just popped it back in the tank. My cory's occasionally swim straight up and hit the hood of the tank, if i didn't have a hood i'm sure i'd find them on the floor, nice and crispy.