a stupid mistake!!!!

[scott the fishman]

 HELLO FISH KEEPING FRIENDS🙂 

SO this morning i am drinking coffee with BIG AL. when i notice my kitty's tail from behind my aquarium.

FIRST thought i had was THIS AIN'T GOOD! the reason i thought that was kitty never shows intrest in my aquarium anymore.

at first she did when i started stocking my tank. she would jump on the bed and gaze at all the flavors of fish i had in there.

then she soon lost interest. i quickly checked the water level it was fine. Incase it was leaking and she was having a drink .so i got kitty from behind the aquarium and shined

my light back there. MY HEART SANK!!! i saw one of my loaches back there. DEAD!  I  thought to my self HOWWWWW!

MY TANK IS TIGHTLY SEALD. then i remembered. yesterday i cleaned out one of my HTB filters and forgot to put the plastic strip back in place leaving about a 3 inch gap in the back of my tank. MY largest loach a zebra loach had jumped out.

[xXInkedPhoenixX]

That totally sucks!!

[HH Morant]

[scott the fishman]

On 11/18/2021 at 1:05 PM, xXInkedPhoenixX said:

That totally sucks!!

FEELS BAD MAN! becouse of my actions i lost a fish friend

[Patrick_G]

So sorry! I have a frameless and lidless tank in the living room. It’s a year old and I haven’t had any jumpers until this past Sunday when I lost a Rummy Nose Tetra. 😟

[scott the fishman]

On 11/18/2021 at 1:30 PM, Patrick_G said:

So sorry! I have a frameless and lidless tank in the living room. It’s a year old and I haven’t had any jumpers until this past Sunday when I lost a Rummy Nose Tetra. 😟

sorry for your lost!  and yeah i feel you man.

[scott the fishman]

On 11/18/2021 at 1:49 PM, scott the fishman said:

sorry for your lost!  and yeah i feel you man.

HEY PATRICK a off topic question. i want to talk about two other topics. do i need to make new topics or can i jumble them all on this one topic? never been on a forum be for dont want to break protocol.

[Atitagain]

@scott the fishman sorry that happened, we try and do our best. Learning from our mistakes is one of our greatest advantages.

[Flumpweesel]

On 11/18/2021 at 9:56 PM, scott the fishman said:

i want to talk about two other topics

I would recommend new threads for each topic you'll get more people responding that way.

Sorry for your loss fish teach lessons in a brutal way sometimes

[scott the fishman]

On 11/19/2021 at 12:59 AM, Flumpweesel said:

I would recommend new threads for each topic you'll get more people responding that way.

Sorry for your loss fish teach lessons in a brutal way sometimes

thank you

[KaitieG]

This caught my eye because I was just making a new lid for my bow front 5 gallon.  I've only lost one other fish (a swordtail) from any other tank--she jumped onto the lid out of the filter gap and fried under the light but that 5 gallon is a super odd shape and I've had trouble sealing it. 

Had to dump the stock lid 'cause it was black plastic with terrible lights.  I'd been using a rectangle lid and seran wrap while my husband kept promising to "make me a lid"... fast forward a year...still using rectangle and seran wrap 🙄, but lost 2 other fish out of it as jumpers.  Finally just bought a piece of decent fairly thin plastic, cut it to the right shape and put holes in for my plants and air line myself.  I think that will take care of my jumping problems--not the prettiest solution, but better than before.  And I should've just done it a long time ago.

[sairving]

I'm sorry.  Its a hard lesson.  I lost my previous betta this way.  I found him on the floor one night and realized there was a 2 inch gap in the lid to jump through.