Firefish MIA

[ARLO]

Got one this weekend and I have not seen it since, looked everywhere, surely it can't be hiding in a "Nano"

 

[TWINPEAKS]

their good jumpers also check the back filter part of the tank.

 

[Hobbes8017]

When one of my Clown fish disappear, I can always find it back in the pump area.

Takes some effert to catch the list b&^$).....

Still cant figure out how it makes it through that small gap between the inside wall and the light cover, but it does. Usually about once a week.

 

[DrBDC]

Unfortunately they're jumpers. But there's hope! I didn't see mine for a month and I even looked in his dart hole. He must have changed holes and I had given up. Then one day there he was and he stayed out everytime I looked at the tank. This was my 3 gallon eclipse and I couldn't find him anywhere. I even removed the rock and looked in all the holes. Well I began to feel sorry for him in with the seahorses and put him in my main display. Next day he was lying there on top of the center brace dead. At least in the eclipse he could only jump up and hit his head.

 

[ARLO]

I have looked in the back chambers, in the rock, on the floor and still can't find him.. I have not feed him in 4 days so I hope he comes out soon for some eats...

 

[chadfarmer]

I would say 4 days isn't long

but in a nano i would say its a goner

 

[DrBDC]

Is the top covered with a hood system? Mine stayed in his hole for so long I really really thought he was dead including when I pulled the only rock out and looked all over. There's always hope unless you see the body.

 

[McBeck]

My tomato clown was in the filter area for almost a week before I found him, and I looked in there many times. Apparently I'm too short to see all the way to the bottom.

It was a PITA to get him out of there, but he didn't do it a second time.

And I hate to be the one to ask, but have you checked your water params?

 

[DrBDC]

If mine go in my overflow I usually pull the stand pipe (good reason not to glue it in place) and before I do that I put my net under the pipe in the sump. Most the time I'm not lucky enough to catch them there. I have a mandarin goby(dragonette to be technical), and 2 chromis living in the sump and there's so much room back there I can't catch them. The mandarin is getting fat.

 

[rutledgek]

My firefish just disappeared for about 2 weeks. It has finally come out and can be seen.

 

[Bushong87]

my firefish, you would think are dead, but they come out of their rock about once a month, you wouldn't think they could survive that long without food. even if i move the rock they dont come out, so yours just might be staying in the rock like mine