unfortunately by the time I found him it was too late

he was about 15ft from the tank, must of jumped and crawled a bit like someone else said theirs did, he was nowhere near where I was checking unfortunately. I didn't think he would get that far, poor guy. I even went back to the fish store that sold me the duck weed that floats and said I think the hanging weeds freaked him out and he jumped, the guy denied it to the tee because he didn't want to be held responsible I guess, but oh well lesson learned. I got the plastic open holed flat crate to cover all the openings in the back. N in my loss I decided to buy a gorgeous electric blue dempsey (he was $80)

got a discount on him for that reason lol