Tang jumped into overflow

[aquaph8]

I got home yesterday and noticed my kole tang was missing. I put some food in the tank to see if he would come out of the rocks and he never came out. So I checked the floor all around the tank to see if he jumped out. After about 10 minutes of searching I looked in the overflow and there he sits all dead looking. I reach in and grab it with my hands and it starts flopping around. I threw it in the water and he slowly swam behind the rocks. I thought for sure he was gonna die within minutes. Talk about the sadest looking fish you ever saw. Today the fish is eating and acting perfectly normal. No telling how long it was in the overflow. He still looks pretty crappy, and has a bunch of scratches, but I think hes gonna make it. Tough fish.

 

[Tanque Verde]

Same thing happened with my wrasse. I was sure the dog ate her off the floor. Hope your tang makes a full recovery.

 

[aquaph8]

I think hes gonna be fine, just kinda ugly with all scratches

 

[Bifferwine]

My lawnmower blenny did the same thing. Except in a large tank, it wasn't unusual for me not to see him for a week at a time, so I didn't think anything of it. I did finally go looking for him, and found him in the overflow, and fished him out with a net. He was emaciated and discolored. He swam into the rocks and I never saw him again. Hopefully your tang will recover, unlike poor Lenny (RIP).

 

[savageAJC]

sucks, im sure he'll be fine.
my friend had a barbershop goby that went missing, musta been a few days, one night we were replacing the filter fiber down in his sump, and there he was getting hammered by the water falling into the sump stuck in the fiber, poor thing.
he lived though which is surprising because he was really getting hammered by the water.

 

[aquaph8]

Hes acting perfectly normal now. Hopefully the scratches will heal cause hes looking pretty ugly.

 

[sillygoose]

My jawfish disappeared for a couple of weeks - I had given up hope. One day I noticed something swimming around in my refugium. There he was in the caulerpa (we have cheato now). I couldn't believe he had survived a trip through the plumbing. We fished him out and he lived happily ever after...until he jumped out and became carpet jerky. He was a jumper, the little stinker.

 

[Tanque Verde]

Lenny the Blenny? That's awesome.

 

[Bifferwine]

Yep, he WAS Lenny the Blenny. He was a looker!

 

[jjk_reef00]

My bleeny loves to take a ride down the overflow because a damsel was harassing him. Took out that damsel and he hasn't gone into the sump since.

 

[aquaph8]

I suspect he ****ed off the powder blue. They dont really fight, but the pb will let him know if he gets out of line.

 

[SojuExp]

You should have seen my blenny when he got in my overflow it's just a little hang on the back. He was stuck in the chamber it took me around an hour to get him unstuck. A couple months later he jumpped out also like sillygoose's