How long have you "lost" something?

[bach2pilot]

I bought a midas blenny ten days ago that I caught swimming in the overflow on day two. Before I could anti-jumperize my tank, he disappeared. I looked everywhere, sump, refugium, filter sock, floor, cabinet, inside the cat...everywhere...nothing.:mad2:

This morning I look inside my filter sock and see a fish head poking out. I'm thinking, he's dead, I finally found him so I can send him to the big toilet bowl in the sky...

As I reach down - he ducks!:eek2: After a quick snatch and grab, he's back in the tank.

I don't know how he survived (or where for that matter) for the last 8 days. So the question is - how long have you lost something? and where was it?

On a completely different related note... I lost my car keys for 3 months before eventually found them. Where were they? On the roof of my Explorer!!! They got stuck in the corner of the luggage rack! (I was driving this vehicle the whole time.) I didn't find them until I went to put my coffee on the roof to take my kids to school. I was very happy and completely #%$^^ off at the same time.

 

[geekreef_05]

You lost your keys on the roof of your Explorer. Thats classic.

I had a missing sixline for over a month. He turned up eventually. I still have no idea where he went. It was a 75 gallon tank with lots of LR though.. so its easy for him to hide out... but sixlines are generally always moving, so it was a surprise to lose track of him.

Ive put things into my tank that I never saw again.. for instance I dropped in a reef lobster and never saw him again... to this day I have yet to find even a body or a trace of him.

 

[jade2122]

I lost ricordia once, it fell off of rock and went into the depths of the live rock, when i took my tank apart 3 months later there it was, bleached out but still very much alive. i couldn't believe it, no light for that long and still doing ok.

 

[gastone]

I lost a bangaii for 6-8 months. Even through a tank break down I couldn't find him. The other day I discovered him... behind my tank. He was a bit dried up.

G.

 

[gsxunv04]

i put a horshoe crab in my tank a year ago, havnt seen him since

 

[asonitez]

I put a Lepoard Wrasse in my tank monday. I have not seen him since... I also added 2 Helfrichi Firefish.. One decided to carpet dive and I didn't find him until tuesday night He was dried and shriveled up.... THEN..... I turned off my pumps and fed the tank thinking it would bring out the lepoard wrasse.. nope... still no sign of him....... then as I WATCHED..... the second helfrichi firefish Dived STRAIGHT out of the tank and behind my 90 gallon filled with 100lbs of live rock and sand and the 30 gallon sump... I had no way of reaching him. I grabbed my extendable Tom aquatics hand and reached around my sump while cramming my 6 ft 1 inch frame into the area over my sump to reach him. he was out of the tank for almost clost to 3/4 minutes. I finally got him and put him into my return area of the sump where he floated around stunned and gasping. Not wanting him to die I tossed some stress coat into my qurantine tank and grabbed the HOB fish holder like they have at the fish store Cept mine is drilled with lots of holes (Fresh Water Dipper & isolation) I put him in there under some low light and gentle current and swished it back and forth to make him stir and waited a few hours. I went back and fed him some frozen brine that was soaked/gutloaded in garlic and vitamins he ate and rested... this morning i went to find out that he had jumped out of the fish holding contraption and was swimming around happily in the 10 gal QT tank.. I returned him to the main tank and his mate Jane... his name is Tarzan.... and they hooked up and went to make some hawt sweaty fish luv.

needless to say my tank now has a fresh starphire glass top that i got for 80 bucks from a glass cutter in south jersey cut to the same specs as my original aga glass . To solve the Gas Exchange issue that so many ppl balk about after placing their glas tops back On i installed some 40mm fans in the PLASTIC part of the tank. on one end its sucking air in and the other end its pulling it out.

 

[mille239]

I can't say for sure if this counts because I never knew I had him, but I found a gorilla crab wandering around on my sand one night, 2.5 years after I added the last live rock to the tank. Other than that NOTHING had been added to the tank on which he could have hitchhiked, so he must have been in there the whole time! crazy little guy... earned him his own hme in the sump after that.

 

[ShootMe]

My first cleaner shrimp was in my tank doing fine for four months then one morning he was just gone. After moving the tank 4 times to this day I cant figure out where he went to.

 

[JustinReef]

I thought my Long nose Hawk had died after not seeing him for about 3 weeks but I found him in my refugium the other day! I was so happy to see him. He looks great too!

 

[rbursek]

Cardinal for about 3 months just showed up, 1 of 3, it justs hangs out behind the LR, the other 2 are out and about all the time.
Bob

 

[Ladipyg]

A Blue sided fairy wrasse, acclimated him, put him in the tank and POOF...I didn't see him for 3 weeks...figured my cleaning crew got him. Day 22 I'm feeding the fish and there he is swimming around, fat and healthy...like he was never gone. I used a flash light, looked in all (I thought) nooks and crannies and still didn't see a sign of him until he just re-appeared.

 

[Ritten]

I had a zoo frag fall into a cave, didn't get it till over a year later when I changed tanks. It was in really poor shape. Took about three months to come around and now is one of my prettier, faster growing frags.

 

[jawfish1]

I've had two separate occassions where I've had a pearly jawfish go missing on me, shortly after introducing them to the tank. When I setup my very first saltwater tank (a 72g bowfront) I added a pearly jawfish to the tank and the day after I could not find it anywhere. This was the very first jawfish I'd ever had, but I was well aware of their ability to jump, etc, so the tank was well covered, etc. I looked and looked, but it wasn't until two months later I finally found him.

I noticed that my overflow section was starting to get a lot of hair algae so i decided to try and clean it out. I pulled the lids off the tank to get at the overflow and started to clean it. All of a sudden something jumped at me and scared the $%##@ right out of me. Darn near fell back off of the step ladder! Low and behold it was my pearly jawfish I lost! He was living in the overflow section of my tank. I'm not even sure how the heck he got in there because it's one heck of a tight squeeze. Not only that, but he was very healthy, but very excited to finally get out of there! He ended up lasting the longest for me. He was my longest kept fish when I cleared out my tanks for the big move to California. I was sad to see him go...

The second incident was later on with my larger 240g tank. I had added a couple of pearly jawfish and again I had one go missing. Low and behold I found him a week later when I went to change my filter socks and something JUMPED OUT OF THE SOCK! It was that darn jawfish! These fish end up getting in the weirdest places! LOL, which is why I think they are fun fish to keep.

Cheers,

 

[Twz]

I had a sand sifting goby in disappear i had figured the cat got em, found him in my refugium a month later put him back in the DT and he's been doing fine sense

 

[cardiffgiant]

I lost two (2) ii banghai cardinals. They were both there one day, then gone without a trace the next. I broke down the tank and filter, but never found them.

My 4 line wrasse hid for the first 2 weeks. I saw it flash by the front of the tank maybe twice during that time.

A feather duster disappeared, then I found it 3 months later behind some live rock, doing great. Then... it was gone again (***).

 

[younglcy]

I lost a nice bi-color feather duster yesterday. It's secured to a small piece of rock with a bright blue cable tie and I moved it on to the sandbed yesterday so I could attach some frags to some rock. When I looked back it was gone, worm, rock, everything. I keep thinking it'll be easy to find but I've looked everywhere for that darn thing and no luck.