Longest lost fish

[scchase]

So I was wondering whats the longest youve ever lost a fish for and found later?
Around 4 years ago a put a Bubblebee Goby in my 480g just saw it again today for the first time in 3 years.

 

[Rebel]

Ummm . . . you win. Three years?! I thought not seeing my gramma for a month was something. Sheesh.

 

[palmer373]

Ummm . . . you win. Three years?! I thought not seeing my gramma for a month was something. Sheesh.

LOL +1 with my tank at the previous owners place there was a clown that went missing 3 montsh before i bought the tank, when i came to disassemble it the clown was in the overflow. died a week later

 

[davocean]

I thought mine was gone a long time, 6mo for my steinitz goby.
Yours most likely wins this one.

 

[samdaman]

That fish in a 480 gal is like a piece of crushed coral!

 

[jyxie]

used to have a clown goby that was missing for like 3 months....but its nothing compared to yours.. lol

 

[Will Haider]

My clownfish was gone for forty years beat that:lolspin:

 

[twon8]

I had a reef lobster I didn't see for about three years, and only because I tore the tank down. I saw his molt from time to time but not the lobster.

 

[fiorano7]

i would have to say a fire shrimp who i didnt see for a year until i tore my tank down. now hes in my nano and i see him all the time

 

[SkullV]

Going on 24 hours since seeing my new Helfrichi Firefish....hopefully he's still in there (closed top no access to overflow or back chambers of nanocube).

 

[skraj011]

though my female Flame wrasse died in my 125 FOWLR, but then she reappeared after about a month. It was the strangest thing as she is not skittish.

 

[scchase]

Lol saw my Bumblebee goby again tonight first time since I made this post. Only 2 months this time.

 

[sanchoy]

4 years and ongoing.. i have not seen my flasher wrasse.. hmmm i wonder where he went.

 

[franklypre]

I have found molts every month for the last year or so, they are from a pistol shrimp(I think). Never seen the actual shrimp nor its burrow, also don't have any snails other than stometella. I will see him in a few months when I move my tank, maybe.

 

[dvmsn]

Four months with a marine betta.

 

[tcmfish]

Did you buy that tank and fish, just to start this thread? That is what I call patience!

 

[DarthSimon]

4 Weeks, newly added Tobacco Basslet... Dropped him in, never saw him again... Though he was doomed... 2 weeks later, he darts out and is 3 times the size, fat and healthy!!

 

[t4zalews]

I lost a 4 in. diamond sand sifter goby in my 65g. Thats a pretty large fish to lose in that size of tank. No carpet surfing, no fins, no carcass...NOTHING. Just vanished like a fart in the wind

 

[skidoll]

My diamond goby was missing for a week, lol, and I lifted up his rock and found him resting. Fairly sure he had the flu that week, or something, cause now he's back to normal.

I was checking out my sump and found a shrimp molt on the polyfiber pad. I discovered the TW0 peppermint shrimps I thought had died 4 months earlier. They took a long ride thru the teeth of the overflow, managed to get out of the rushing water and a filter sock, and now are living peacefully in the refugium area. Weird! Thought they were goners from the beginning!

 

[didz04]

So I was wondering whats the longest youve ever lost a fish for and found later?
Around 4 years ago a put a Bubblebee Goby in my 480g just saw it again today for the first time in 3 years.

Same with me it was a bumbleblee goby but only 3 months. After taking everything out for selling I found it. I had 3 of them only saw 2 at one time and they were the ones that had the markings.