Didn't expect to find you there....

[Lockhartia]

Just wondering if anyone has ever found any of their sea creatures in an unusual or unexpected place!

For example, I came downstairs the other day and was making breakfast and looked down, and there was a margarita snail in the middle of the floor. The tank's on the opposite side of the house! He was still alive when I put him back in.

Perhaps the wierdest just happened when I was doing laundry. I pulled out the lint catch in the dryer to clean it out, and there was an asterina star in it! I have zero idea how the heck that happened.......he was very clean though.

 

[snorvich]

I have critters that have tried to leave, but with no success. If they had been, I would have been dead meat.

 

[pwoller]

I was trying to catch a goby for weeks, had a ich outbreak, then one day he was no where to be seen. Secretly I was a bit excited, I thought I'd check the overflow and sure enough he was in there. Figured I'd net him and QT him but when I stuck the net down in the over flow He jumped straight up and hit the light fixture and bounced back into the tank. At that point I gave up on ever QTing him.

 

[driftin]

I had the opposite, a Gala apple sticker stuck to the side of our tuxedo urchin. We essentially have a totally enclosed lighting cabinet, no idea how it got into the tank let alone picked up by the urchin!

 

[JustinReef]

I found my 2' Snowflake Eel in my bedroom once. His tank was down the hall, through a dining area and across the living room though.

He was a pretty angry eel when I went to pick him up!

 

[beachgyrl0]

Luckily I have never found any of my sea creatures outside of my tank. =)

If I would find my eel outside my tank I'd probably scream and run lol

 

[tomasga]

I had a snowflake eel jump out of my tank once, he was about 50 ft away from the tank flopping around when I found him...

 

[Katmanblue]

My snowflake found it's way to my kitchen.
My cat found it's way to my snowflake.
And that's the end of the story.

 

[paraletho]

The most blood-curdling scream I have ever heard was almost 30 years ago at 4AM in the morning as my wife made her way to the kitchen to make early morning coffee. A small octopus that I had captured offshore and put in my 55 had squeezed through the lid and was suction pulling himself across the floor like an alien from a B grade horror flick. Needless to say he had a short life at my house.

 

[phenom5]

I haven't found anything outside of my tank...alive at least.

But my father-in-law did have a hermit crab that tried to make a run for it. Not sure which was more surprising...finding a hermit crawling across the floor, or the 3 golden retrievers in the house not finding the hermit crawling across the floor.

 

[mutateddogbone]

had a sixline wrasse camp out in my overflow for 3 weeks

 

[Bambalam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15337412#post15337412 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by paraletho
The most blood-curdling scream I have ever heard was almost 30 years ago at 4AM in the morning as my wife made her way to the kitchen to make early morning coffee. A small octopus that I had captured offshore and put in my 55 had squeezed through the lid and was suction pulling himself across the floor like an alien from a B grade horror flick. Needless to say he had a short life at my house.

Gonna be tough to beat that one....:eek1:

 

[salty joe]

I had a 30 inch snowflake eel that disappeared one day. I tore the tank apart and looked all over the house, including under the rug in the bathroom. The following weekend, I took the rug from the bathroom and tossed it on the landing with the other rugs that needed shaken. When the bathroom rug hit the floor, my eel popped off the bottom of the rug. I was heartbroken. He had been my favorite fish for 11 years.

 

[Ebisan]

One time while watching TV, I see my Firefish fly out of the tank and onto the carpet. I put him back in and he looked fine. Then a week later, I thought who left a piece of Redvines on the floor. When I went to pick it up, it was the Firefish.

 

[Macimage]

I had my entire 225 top covered, except for a 2" hole that was drilled to add another piece of equipment. I was working in the fish room and one of my wrasses came flying out of it and landed on the carpet in front of me. I scooped him up, put him back in the tank and of course, covered the hole.

Joyce

 

[luther1200]

I was rea arranging my power cords after I got my RKE. And about a month before I had gotten 2 Peppermint shrimp. I hadn't seen them in weeks, and figured my Coral Banded Shrmip got them. So I pick up a wire and look at it and get suprised to see what looked like a bug on it. It was 1 of the Peppermint shrimp. It was about 3 feet from the tank. I didn't even know they were jumpers. Unless it was getting chased, or I was thinking maybe my clam blew him out. 1 time I placed a frag next to my clam and he sent it flying into the glass. That was pretty wild too.

 

[jaybfresh]

I found a royal gramma in my dog's mouth... wonder how it got there

 

[stormrider27]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15337918#post15337918 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ebisan
One time while watching TV, I see my Firefish fly out of the tank and onto the carpet. I put him back in and he looked fine. Then a week later, I thought who left a piece of Redvines on the floor. When I went to pick it up, it was the Firefish.

Had a simular experiance with a Lion fish, thought is was a dried leaf laying on the carpet Oh well, at least I didn't step on it.

 

[redfishsc]

My critters never come out of the tank while I'm hope. They wait for me to leave so my wife has to catch them.

I like to collect native stuff from the beach and from the lakes, so thus far my wife has had to figure out how to put back into the tank:

salamaders
crayfish
several fish
tadpoles that became small frogs before I noticed


and the best is the huge fiddler crab that she just got ****ed at and shoo'ed out the door with a broom. I laughed so hard when she told me about it.



The best one though had nothing to do with the aquarium, but I went to church one Sunday and was there for 3 hours+, and the whole time I had a big black sock sticking out of the cuff of my shirt and didn't notice. I KNOW someone had to have seen it and wondered "what the...."

 

[redfishsc]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15337263#post15337263 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Katmanblue
My snowflake found it's way to my kitchen.
My cat found it's way to my snowflake.
And that's the end of the story.

Yup. I used to have a 55g tank full of livebearers and no light/canopy over it. Had probably 100 fish in it (platys, swords, mollies, etc....).


After we got the cats, I noticed the livebearer population dwindling.

Those cats are storing up their sin for the day of wrath, I'm tellin ya!