Suicidal fish

[Namyar]

So I get up today to find that one of my fish percula clown's are missing. Looking everywhere for him thought he was hiding. But no he was behind the tank on the floor dry a a bone. Know i have just one lonely clown. HE must have just leaped right out of the tank.

 

[Teraphage]

Sorry for your loss..that sucks. Unfortunately it's pretty common with clowns, especially when they're establishing dominance. I lost one male that jumped though the holes of a grid light diffuser panel that's on top of my tank. To this day I can't imagine how he fit. Was it the smaller of your 2 that jumped?

 

[kase]

i heard that alot about clows. mind got suck into my sump and stayed alive for 2 days down there, but it happen again i happen change my sump around and it got stuck on the filter pad and die...

SORRY for your lost..

 

[bigjdotcom01]

Re: Suicidal fish

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7411322#post7411322 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Namyar
So I get up today to find that one of my fish percula clown's are missing. Looking everywhere for him thought he was hiding. But no he was behind the tank on the floor dry a a bone. Know i have just one lonely clown. HE must have just leaped right out of the tank.

Wow. The same thing happened to me about two weeks ago. I am now down to one percula clown.

 

[dalbrecht]

I'm always paranoid about that happening. I really like the look of my open top tanks, but I've always had to deal with keeping my birds out of them (I have a parrot that likes to go fishing) and my fish in them.

 

[mark fanara]

Maybe he got tired of being called Nemo.

 

[coralnut99]

I was going to suggest fruit tree bird netting, but then I read your post about the parrot. You could use eggcrate to cover the tank. But even that's really no match for a parrot's beak. fwiw, I went to eggcrate after losing too many anthias. I've come to realize that eggcrate can in fact focus the light entering the squares, but much is sacrificed in terms of area coverage. I just switched one of my 125's to a double layer of fruit tree bird netting and it makes a big difference. The double layer alternates the netting mesh so the available openings are very small. hth

 

[dalbrecht]

coralnut:

how are you securing the netting. It's always struck me as a bit too flimsy to make a good cover.

-Don

 

[coralnut99]

I threaded sections of 1/8 wooden dowel rod through the netting. Really easy. Then you just buy a roll of adhesive backed velcro at HD and wrap one side around the dowel rod to make a small loop and the other to the tank rim. You have to put the velcro patches every foot and a half or so of tank length because the dowel rod bows when you stretch the netting. The dowel rods were in my workshop for eons, so it was just stuff I had on hand. Rather than go to thicker dowel rods, I bought plain white lengths of plastic lattice trim at HD (where they sell plastic exterior mouldings). They come in 8 foot lengths and are something like an inch wide and 1/4" thick. I may need to run them through the table saw to get 1" width to fit through the netting mesh.