Yellow Wrasse. missing

[Jordan_Oreo]

Hey, I have had this yellow wrasse for a while like 3+ months and had no problems except he jumped out of the tank once a long time ago. But I cant seem to find him now ? hes not around the tank on the ground and has been missing for about 3-4 days Any I deas on how I could find him ? or Where he could be ? this is what he looks like
http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11_03/images/298_yellowwrassesaltn00b.jpg
Thanks
J

[levi1803]

wow, that is one awesome looking fish, My wrasse went missing for a few days and I ended up finding him in the back of the filter of my biocube.

[MikeP]

My blue sided wrasse jumped into my overflow and ended up in my sump once (my new tank cover prevents that from happening again). I also have a flasher wrasse that likes to live in a hole in a piece of live rock.

[Delphinus]

Two possibilities. One, he is just hiding out for a few days. They can bury themselves in the sand, they can hide in the rocks. When I had mine, I noticed that he could disappear for days at a time only to reappear later. Amazing how well they can hide.

Second possibility is he jumped and is on the floor somewhere as carpet jerky. All wrasses jump and these guys are no exception - in fact I lost mine to jumping. I have an eggcrate cover over my tank for the exact reason to keep jumpers from escaping and nevertheless he penetrated the barrier somehow - exactly how I'll never know. Either he fit through the 0.5" squares (which I thought he was way too big for) or he jumped with enough force to lift the eggcrate enough to let him fall out and then the eggcrate fell back in place.

[Myka]

Do you have a cat or dog that may eat him if he jumped out?

[Jordan_Oreo]

My mom found the wrasse while i was at school. It was found dead on the other side of the room under a cabnit. How it got that far i dont know but iam going to miss him:cry:

[karazy]

aww man that sucks.
i bet what happened was he jumped out the flip flopped himself over there.
RIP yellow wrasse

[Pier Pressure]

Sorry for your loss. I had a cleaner wrasse jump out of the pail when we were climatizing him for our tank, and then he jumped out twice more to be rescued before we eventually found him jerkified in front of the TV - which is across the room. We also have two cats who showed no interest. Apparently the cats are WAY too well fed. Like karazy said - I bet he flopped over there once he realized he was out of water.

[justinl]

sucks to lose such a pretty fish. Well, let this be a lesson: all wrasses need a cover/canopy to prevent carpet surfing. no exceptions. I made a canopy just so I could get a yellow wrasse... definitely worth the effort.

[Doo]

I lost 2 of them in 2 days with eggcrate on the tank!
They just jumped through it...

[Jordan_Oreo]

I have a mesh over it now to prevent anything jumping again