goby took the dry plunge!

[Anonymous]

goby == jumper?

then how do you keep gobies in reef aquariums (which are mostly open top)?

this weekend i came home to discover Fallout, sole survivor of the Triple Catastrophe, all crispy on the carpet. Just as a precaution, I tossed his crispy body back into the tank for a little while, but he was truly dead (once i had a power blue gourami that jumped out and he was super crispy by the time i came home, but i threw him back in and he perked right up and lived, so I named the gourami Jesus H. Christ).

*sniffle* he was a trooper.

 

[liquid]

Sorry to hear of your loss. Were there any other fish in the tank or was that your only fish?

Shane

 

[Lostmind]

Sorry to hear that.

Liquid, I think it was the only fish in the tank. Remember how hwarang's tank crashed the other week?

 

[cdeakle]

I also had a few fish take the dive

I had a mated pair of maroons and the female was nicknamed "Big *****" and for good reason. She would grab some of my smaller fish (six-line/blenny) in her mouth and swim about the tank with them and would literally try and throw them out of the tank! 8O I didnt find out till it was too late.

With this in mind, it was actually my fault! I should have already taken some plexi/acrylic and cut it to fit the top of my aquarium. I would suggest you do the same.

-puff

 

[liquid]

Ah you're right, Lostmind. Yeah I remember now.

You might try placing eggcrate material over the top of your tank to help grid it off a bit. That might help...

Shane

 

[Anonymous]

i bought a piece of acrylic and completely covered every possible
space a fish could jump out of. i've had a few fish jump out.
my banded prawn goby jumped out the other day, but i had
a 5g bucket of slatwater mixing up on the floor about 2 feet
away from the aquarium, and he landed in it. but i wont take
that chance again.

 

[Anonymous]

i bought a piece of acrylic and completely covered every possible
space a fish could jump out of. i've had a few fish jump out.
my banded prawn goby jumped out the other day, but i had
a 5g bucket of slatwater mixing up on the floor about 2 feet
away from the aquarium, and he landed in it. but i wont take
that chance again.

I beat that. I mix saltwater in those five gallon jugs you put in water coolers...the ones with the two inch diameter opening. I had a clown goby jump through a tiny hole in the tank lid and I figured a cat ate him (bare bottom QT so I knew he wasn't in there and I knew he wasn't on the floor). Next day I started a water change and found him in the water jug! 8O In all fairness, I can't remember if I had my large funnel stuck in the top of the jug, so his target may have been bigger than two inches across. But still... 8O


Sorry to hear about the firefish... I love mine. Keep my tank covered too, but that sucks for a reef tank....I guess it's worth saving the jumpers. I just lost a bicolor blenny...jumped out of a quarter sized air hole in the lid.

 

[Anonymous]

hmm well i had a really bad problem with heat buildup and so i had to go open-top with this aquarium.

now there's only a cleaner scrimp and some hermits in there. and two weird green mushroom corals. and a spaghetti worm or two. and some pods. no fishies. boo!

 

[jdieck]

Sorry for your loss. Yeah Gobies and Jawfish are jumpers mostly when scared. When I got my first blue spotted Jawfish I knew he was a jumper so I covered the aquarium with eggcrate. They are so small and streamlined that he jumped trough the holes and lost him less than 12 hours of his introduction. Today I have two purple flame gobies and a new bluespotted Jawfish needless to say the aquarium is now fully covered with acrylic and in my case the canopy fans and chiller take care of the heat build up.

 

[jdieck]

Sorry for your loss. Yeah Gobies and Jawfish are jumpers mostly when scared. When I got my first blue spotted Jawfish I knew he was a jumper so I covered the aquarium with eggcrate. They are so small and streamlined that he jumped trough the holes and lost him less than 12 hours of his introduction. Today I have two purple flame gobies and a new bluespotted Jawfish needless to say the aquarium is now fully covered with acrylic and in my case the canopy fans and chiller take care of the heat build up.

 

[Anonymous]

This might be a dialect thing...When you guys say "egg crate," do you mean those plastic "milk crates" that we see next to the dumpsters behind grocery stores or is that something else?

 

[Lostmind]

egg crate is used as a light diffuser for flourescent lights in an office setting. It's normally white, plastic and comes in a criss cross pattern forming a bunch of little squares...

if that made any sense.

 

[jdieck]

See attached

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks. I just got that feeling you get when you've been thinking people are talking about something totally different and then you find out what they are really talking about. Glad I asked.