Any kids in the house? Kids like fishing
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well, I'm sure everyone's had the fish or shrimp stuck in the filter story,
but mine is unique to the moss rope projects I'm always tinkering with.
I keep a few Dwarf African Frogs in the tanks with my moss ropes, and
have had one escape on me to a carpet death about every year. Last
Month I was doing my final plant & moss harvest before it gets too cold
to ship anything, when I noticed my last DAF was missing. I assumed
his mummified corpse would turn up sooner or later, so I didn't give it
a second thought. so I first sold all my extra plants, and a week later
my moss. Then I'm lifting the moss rope out of my tank to put it into
a container to harvest then H2O2 treat, and as I'm pulling out cutting
the moss off the rope, up jumps my DAF
So it turns out he had not
escaped, rather found himself a comfy little home deep inside my moss.
needless to say, I'm glad I got him back before I could cut him or soak
him in H202, and accidentally ship him as a hitchhiker to my moss buyer.
but mine is unique to the moss rope projects I'm always tinkering with.
I keep a few Dwarf African Frogs in the tanks with my moss ropes, and
have had one escape on me to a carpet death about every year. Last
Month I was doing my final plant & moss harvest before it gets too cold
to ship anything, when I noticed my last DAF was missing. I assumed
his mummified corpse would turn up sooner or later, so I didn't give it
a second thought. so I first sold all my extra plants, and a week later
my moss. Then I'm lifting the moss rope out of my tank to put it into
a container to harvest then H2O2 treat, and as I'm pulling out cutting
the moss off the rope, up jumps my DAF
So it turns out he had notescaped, rather found himself a comfy little home deep inside my moss.
needless to say, I'm glad I got him back before I could cut him or soak
him in H202, and accidentally ship him as a hitchhiker to my moss buyer.
How about a fish that somehow managed to move from one tank to the next all by itself?
Last night I drained my tank and moved all of my fish to a 30g quarantine tank to treat them separately from my plants so that I can OD on CO2 in the plant tank to try and get rid of a huge algae problem and also to stop dosing meds in my plant tank.
I counted all of my fish as I caught them and did not see my YoYo loach anywhere. I was careful when taking out all of the plants so I didn't accidentally throw someone in the bucket. I didn't start catching fish until the water level was below 6" and was very curious as to where my YoYo was...
After taking the fish out, I drained the tank fully and expected to find him dead and buried in the substrate - I did not. Then I figured he must have somehow gotten in the bucket.... after re-planting the tank, still no YoYo.
I went to bed quite confused...I checked the floor just to be sure too.
This morning when I woke up, there he was, swimming in the QT with everyone else. HOW DID HE DO THAT??!!!
The only thing I can fathom is that he swam through the siphon into the tank and hid while I wasn't looking. I set up the QT with 1/2 fresh water and 1/2 water from my other tank.
If he didn't swim through the siphon, he must have somehow walked through glass... Because I sure as hell didn't catch that little bugger with my net. I KNOW it.
Criss Angel YoYo Fish.
Last night I drained my tank and moved all of my fish to a 30g quarantine tank to treat them separately from my plants so that I can OD on CO2 in the plant tank to try and get rid of a huge algae problem and also to stop dosing meds in my plant tank.
I counted all of my fish as I caught them and did not see my YoYo loach anywhere. I was careful when taking out all of the plants so I didn't accidentally throw someone in the bucket. I didn't start catching fish until the water level was below 6" and was very curious as to where my YoYo was...
After taking the fish out, I drained the tank fully and expected to find him dead and buried in the substrate - I did not. Then I figured he must have somehow gotten in the bucket.... after re-planting the tank, still no YoYo.
I went to bed quite confused...I checked the floor just to be sure too.
This morning when I woke up, there he was, swimming in the QT with everyone else. HOW DID HE DO THAT??!!!
The only thing I can fathom is that he swam through the siphon into the tank and hid while I wasn't looking. I set up the QT with 1/2 fresh water and 1/2 water from my other tank.
If he didn't swim through the siphon, he must have somehow walked through glass... Because I sure as hell didn't catch that little bugger with my net. I KNOW it.
Criss Angel YoYo Fish.
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