What fish have you had jump?

[brett559]

My DIY mesh top had a probably 1/4" gap in the back to allow for cords to run out the back. My longnose hawk felt inspired to find that tiny gap and take his own life.

 

[lorrie.kaluzny]

Oddly I had a diamond goby commit the suicide jump!

 

[tc2007]

Oddly I had a diamond goby commit the suicide jump!

I lost one Diamond goby and a Yellow watchman goby this month when I was on vacation. Only 2 fatalities on a 6 week vacation where those 2. Jumped through the overflow to the sump and went inside the overflow pump. :headwalls:

 

[triksrevival]

The Dracula goby in my pic jumped and died. I have a Midas Benny that has jumped a few times luckily surviving each time. One time the Midas jumped and my wife's friend accidentally stepped on him, then my wife tried to pick him up and put him in the tank. He bit her so she threw him against the wall in a knee jerk reaction and then I finally got him in the tank. I upgraded my tank now that has covers, but if I leave it open too long he will jump. I've also lost a cleaner goby and jawfish that went carpet surfing.

 

[jminick2]

red ruby dragonette

 

[bill4t]

Lyretail, and as of 3 days ago my dang fridmani

 

[Silly clownfish]

Other: my first flame hawk (dead on carpet), neon dotty back (dead on glass canopy)

I have always used a full glass canopy with cutouts in the plastics strip for returns, etc. both of these fish made it through openning I wouldn't have thought the clould have fit through, much less managed to aim through).

My flasher wrasse has jumped put during a feeding. I put him back in the tank and he survived. I think it is only a matter of time - i hear him hit the canopy about every other day. I have managed to block off the overflow pretty well and have not needed to rescue him from the overflow since I rigged that.

 

[ThRoewer]

Fish are most likely to jump in corners. Unfortunately that's where usually openings for cables and hoses are. A simple solution is to cover those areas with a piece of filter foam. You can cut some slots for the cables and hoses.

 

[dustinkimpel]

firefish goby.. jumped out within 15 min of him being in the tank. He almost hit my fiancé in her head on the way down. picked him up in my hands and managed to get him back in the tank.

 

[SecretiveFish]

I lost a scissortail dartfish on top of my glass lid. I still have no idea how he managed to jump through one the teeny holes cut in the backstrip for the wires/overflow/etc/.

I lost a midas blenny through the egg crate lid. I had no idea he could fit, but he sure proved me wrong That tank has a screen lid now.

I had a pair of diamond sleeper gobies that would not stop jumping... I had to add weight plates to the lids to keep them in... We still heard them hitting the top.

One of our clownfish tried to go carpet surfing. The pair lived in a Nano Nuvo 16 for a bit. For some reason, the glass lid that comes with the tank does not fit over the entire tank, Why?!? One of the clownfish jumped through the back gap, but fortunately landed in the back sump area. He was hard to get out of there... That pair lives in a different screen covered tank now, but one of them did manage to jump into the overflow despite the screen lids.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

What covering other than glass blocks the least amount of light and where do you get it?

http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/diy-aquarium-screen-top-kits-1-4-netting.html

 

[lpsouth1978]

The one I was most distraught about was a spotted mandarin that had been thriving on vitamin enriched frozen Mysis for almost a year. He was big and fat and ate readily when we fed the tank. one day he found the only small hole in the top and jumped right through. It was a very sad day!

 

[JoeVandal49]

Only fish i ever lost to carpet surfing was a Yellow Corris wrasse. One of the first fish i bought when starting into the hobby. I was pretty devastated.

I actually lost him a few weeks ago. I was negligent and did not listen to warnings. I had no lids on the display. He was previously in a 55g tank, and went into a 105g, which is the same footprint as a 6 foot 125, but is only 18 inches high. Likely never had an issue previously because of the height on the 55g.

I went the very next day and bought 1/4 inch galvanized mesh. Built the frames from lumber, covered the frames in mesh, then coated everything in epoxy.

Not gonna happen to me again.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Bartlett's Anthias

 

[Fish_LOVEr]

A zebra lionfish almost dead when i found him under the sofa, he managed to recover but died in a small tank crash, 1 cleaner wrasse and a large striped sweetlips jump out and die a few hours later after i put them back in the tank

 

[teemee]

Blue spotted jawfish jumped daily at 2am. Luckily I was always awake... until the night I wasn't.
Naoko wrasse also, almost daily occurrence. Once it jumped into a bucket of water - ideal!
garden eel
that's all folks - in 5+ years of reefing, could be worse.

 

[strike2867]

I selected every species I've ever housed. I'm sure if I had others, they would have jumped too.

 

[murdock84]

I had a blue sided fairy wrasse for a month. He disappeared for two months and was in the overflow as my wife woke me up to say there was a dead fish on the screen top. Only about an inch and a half is open in the back. I looked several times during the day and the night in the overflow. Dropped food in there to see if I could see him. Nope. He was a cool fish.

 

[sixpackgarage]

so based on the data, all fish jump (well the ones we're voting on), the main thing is do you feel lucky? (just get a screen)

 

[ThRoewer]

I'm wondering how many of the clowns that were reported as jumpers here actually had a host anemone. I would wager a guess and say none.
Clowns with anemone usually don't jump easily, while clowns without a home tend to hang out in dangerous top corners.