fish lost and found...what's your best fishtale?

[Sk8r]

I just found the original Teacake...a highfin redstripe goby that went mysteriously missing, oh, sometime in June...

I'd replaced my mag 9.5 and shielded its intake this time, with the big sponge that came with it. Well, I'm into the sump to 'wetten' the skim, and in the light of the flashlight I spy a barberpole striped white wiggle down underneath that huge sponge in the pump well.

THAT didn't look like a bristleworm. I cut the pump, scrounged up my net, hauled the pump up and netted all the bottom debris: sure enough: fish! I dumped her straight into the display, she dived for her old home, and now has two roommates, Teacake II, who should rightfully be named Poundcake [she's large] and her old mate Raspberry.

She looked so thin and hard-used I put some cyclopeeze in, hoping a little would find its way to her. Heck, she got up into the bright light and started noshing her way through it with the other two.

So having replaced the lost Teacake, I now have a striped corner in my tank, as all 3 are hanging together: Teacake and Poundcake met nose-bump-nose in pursuit of a morsel and there was no hostility, so I suppose all is well. Teacake always was more forward than the full-grown Poundcake, who almost never comes out, so now maybe Raspberry will have a swimming partner.

:rollface: :rollface: :rollface:

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Awesome. I have nothing special but I do have a carpet anemone. Every time I dont see a fish I panic, only to find it later on. Congrats on finding your fish though

 

[Ryanqk]

I've lost bits of coral into the depths of the caverns in my tank and presumed them to have died only to find them uncovered from the sand a lil shrunk up a couple months later thanks to the engineer goby.

 

[inlandreef]

I had lost a six line for weeks only later to find him in my filter sock on the outlet of my overflow. Put him back in the main tank and he was fine.

 

[r00onmac]

found the same kind of fish you did in my overflow box after not seeing it for a week, after some crafty hand squeezing i got it out... only to find it dead in the display a week later... guess it was eating in the overflow? idk...

 

[mm949]

i lost a neon goby...found it living in my groupers gill plates..!!

 

[LittlePuff]

I found my porcelian crab belly up in a open area in the tank. I was so upset (I haven't had anything die on me yet) I got a net and fished him out. Looked at him closely to see if I could tell what killed him. He looked fine. So i rushed to check all of the water parameters. They were all fine, so I resigned myself to the fact that I lost him. Later that evening, I was watching my blenny and saw something red at the rear of the tank. It was him, completely fine. Nice decoy! He fooled me.

 

[Sk8r]

Grin---so far the resurrected Teacake is doing well. Now I'm looking for missing hermits.

 

[2fishy]

That is so cool! I lost my 2 peppermint shrimp a couple months ago, and still have not found them. I keep holding out hope though!

 

[skeeter-doc]

I had a missing longnose hawkfish, that I found still breathing in my cat's jaws! I grabbed him, and put him back into the tank, only his nose was no longer long, poor guy. Didn't last long after that event!

 

[mikeshook]

i found a small snowflake eel as hard as a pencil after finding its way out of my tank. I dropped him in the tank and he sank to the bottom and laid there as straight as an arrow. I woke up in the morning and it was swimming around as though nothing had happened; he had to be out of the tank for at least 6-8 hours...