How long is too long, he asked, coyly...

[fortheloveofcrabs]

A kind of general question about missing fish... Ahem.

What's the longest you've had a fish go missing in your tank, and then had it reappeared from its well thought-out hiding spot?

The reason I ask is my new jawfish was spooked the other day (I guess I moved a little too quick) he swam to the back of the tank and I haven’t seen him since. That was Friday night…

He’s not “out of water” – I’ve quadruple checked, plus the tank is 100% screened off for now (to prevent him carpet surfing) So he’s either hiding or…

Thanks!

-Pauli

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Three days for me.

[fortheloveofcrabs]

Oopes! Today's Monday, not Sunday (sat's always throw me off!). He vanished Saturday night.

3 days, that's good (well, for me)!

[michika]

I had a Tomi tang go missing for a few days shy of a month. Gone one evening, and reappeared one morning after he'd been written off as MIA.

[TAZ]

We generally see our dancing goby every 6 months or so. He is so small, and there are tons of spots to hid in my tank, but we thought we would see him more than we do :-) We named him "Bigfoot" due to the rare amount of times he appears.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/479Goby.jpg

[michika]

We named him "Bigfoot" due to the rare amount of times he appears.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol:

[untamed]

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol:

I "lost" a small goby for 2 months...turns out he was living in the overflow box the entire time.

[seanoman]

your jawfish may be making a burrow at the back of your tank. We had a jawfish for about 6 months and whenever it would get spooked my something it would leave its old burrow and go and make a new one. I think we went close to a week withour seeing ours.

[fortheloveofcrabs]

yikes a week! Thanks for the help all!

[fishoholic]

We had a firefish go into hidding for almost 2 weeks before being seen again.

[lastlight]

I also had a firefish go missing for about 2 weeks.

And the tank isn't that large and i looked very carefully a few times too...