Aimforever
Premium Member
I was making lunch in the kitchen this afternoon and suddenly heard a loud splash followed by a few light thumps coming from the room with my display tank. I rushed over to the tank and found my 6" 2.5 year old blue tang lying on the carpet :eek1:
Suprisingly he didn't seem too distressed - he wasn't flopping all over the place or breathing heavily. In fact, when I knelt down over him he just held still and kind of had this look in his eye like "that was nothing like the brochure & I want to go back in the tank now"
I gently scooped him up in my hands and dropped him back in the tank. He swam back and forth a few times as if he was trying to let everyone else know he had returned from the carpet. Then he noticed there was food in the water and started pigging out as usual, as if nothing had happened.
It was at this point I realized that just moments before I heard the splash and entered the room, the autofeeder had dumped food into the display. Feeding time is always a little crazy and I guess he must have gotten overly excited to beat someone else to the food. I've never had a net over my tank because I don't have any fish that are really regarded as "jumpers", but this is a good reminder that any fish is easily capable of propelling themselves out of an uncovered tank. I'm going to start figuring out how to fit some netting over it just in case something like this ever happens again when I'm not around. Disaster averted.
Suprisingly he didn't seem too distressed - he wasn't flopping all over the place or breathing heavily. In fact, when I knelt down over him he just held still and kind of had this look in his eye like "that was nothing like the brochure & I want to go back in the tank now"
I gently scooped him up in my hands and dropped him back in the tank. He swam back and forth a few times as if he was trying to let everyone else know he had returned from the carpet. Then he noticed there was food in the water and started pigging out as usual, as if nothing had happened.
It was at this point I realized that just moments before I heard the splash and entered the room, the autofeeder had dumped food into the display. Feeding time is always a little crazy and I guess he must have gotten overly excited to beat someone else to the food. I've never had a net over my tank because I don't have any fish that are really regarded as "jumpers", but this is a good reminder that any fish is easily capable of propelling themselves out of an uncovered tank. I'm going to start figuring out how to fit some netting over it just in case something like this ever happens again when I'm not around. Disaster averted.
