My miracle anthias

[drukkosz]

I bought a trio of Bartlett's Anthias from DD after two weeks ofquarantine I put them in my DT.
Few days later two of them went missing. I was upset especially when I knew they were super active and eating like crazy. 3 months later!!!!!!
I found one of them in my overflow, I have a dual overflow and one side is facing the wall so I couldn't see it. Poor guy was trapped there for 3 months!!!
Now she is back in my DT hiding in the rocks and coming out when I feed. I am shocked that she survived there for so long!!!

Thought I would share my little Christmas miracle.

 

[MHG]

Just goes to show you how much food your overflow sucks in... It is ironic because my male lyretail scares all of my fish so they jump into the overflow. I finally made a cover...

 

[drukkosz]

Just goes to show you how much food your overflow sucks in... It is ironic because my male lyretail scares all of my fish so they jump into the overflow. I finally made a cover...

Funny you mentioned that. Both of my overflows have covers!! i have no idea how did she get there

 

[rivvir]

Early christmas for sure amazing 3 months!

 

[humaguy]

nice...
had something similar happen with a pinktail trigger...
walked into my fish room and smelled fish- which is never good...
looked around and found nothing....checked the tanks and noticed my pt was missing...
found her behind my tank in between 2 elec floor heating units-they were not on...
she was upside down and dry as can be but when I went to pick her up to bury her, she moved and grunted...
so, I dropped her back into the tank...she sunk to the bottom and then started to swim in slow small circles while listing heavily to one side...figured she was a gonner...
the next morning she was swimming around like nothing happened...
simply amazing...
still have her and she is a total pita, lol...
the fish we keep are truly amazing and a lot tougher than we think in many instances...

 

[drukkosz]

Awesome story humaguy!!! Glad she is ok and thank you for sharing

 

[aandfsoccr04]

Sounds like a Christmas miracle!

 

[Longx427]

so what happened to the other missing fish? unsolved mystery?

 

[drukkosz]

so what happened to the other missing fish? unsolved mystery?

My guess would be it didnt make it and my cleaning crew did the rest