Dumb fish!

fishoholic · #1 06-12-2010, 02:09 AM

So I was thinking to myself this morning that I haven't seen my Secretive/Scarlet Pin Stripe Wrasse in a few days. When the lights came on I looked all around in the tank but didn't see him. Unfortunately I found him behind the tank on the floor all dried up

As someone's signature say's "when a fish jumps out why doesn't he scream for help" I'd sure like to know that too right now.

I have a few wrasses in my reef tank and this is the first wrasse to ever jump out on me. What a waste and he was doing so good too

R.I.P.

christyf5 · #2 06-12-2010, 02:54 AM

Aww that sucks. I always wonder what fish think they're jumping towards. Freedom?

Delphinus · #3 06-12-2010, 03:05 AM

Think they just get startled. In the ocean a burst of speed takes you somewhere else, in a tank it either lands you into something solid or on an unlucky trajectory straight out.

I think around half of the wrasses I've owned met their ends on the floor.

Netting/coverings the only way to go to really hedge our bets methinks.

Sorry for your loss Laurie ..

silentcivilian · #4 06-12-2010, 03:10 AM

No good. Same thing happened to me for a fish that i would have never expected to jump. I lost a orange spotted sand goby to the leap of faith to test for god.... no fish god there that day. Oddly, I came in that night at 3am, looked at the tank, he was just sitting in his burrow happy as can be, woke up at 6 for work, and he was a victim of gravity.

Sorry you had to lose a fish that way, I know that it sucks.

fishoholic · #5 06-12-2010, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Think they just get startled. In the ocean a burst of speed takes you somewhere else, in a tank it either lands you into something solid or on an unlucky trajectory straight out.

I think around half of the wrasses I've owned met their ends on the floor.

Netting/coverings the only way to go to really hedge our bets methinks.

Sorry for your loss Laurie ..

Thanks guys and Tony you're right about the netting, however my boyfriend wont let me put any over the tank because it casts shadows. I have a dumb black evil damsel (boyfriend saw him when he was small and cute and wanted him, I thought at the time it was a bad idea but we ended up getting him anyway) and he chases my wrasses around so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the damsel that spooked the wrasse. Although the secretive wrasse was somewhat aggressive and I don't remember the damsel chasing him.

lastlight · #6 06-12-2010, 05:47 AM

Sorry you lost your wrasse. Never had a jumper yet with SW but had my share with FW over the years.

My tank is in my living room with the TV and my daughter watches Finding Nemo a lot. I should start hanging something over the tank to keep my own idiots from getting any 'smart ideas'...

plutoniumJoe · #7 06-12-2010, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by silentcivilian

I lost a orange spotted sand goby to the leap of faith to test for god.... no fish god there that day.

Mathew 4.7 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' Maybe they should try the apple next time.