aro jumped out of tank :/

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TheBroc

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had the lids open and using the algae scrapper and it spooked the aro and it jumped so high in the air and bam right on the floor! omg. put him back in. I read about this happening to other aros and they turn out just fine. hope this is true with mine.

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The one I had jumped out on numerous occasions and he recovered just fine every time. I must say that they are one strong smelling fish, though. I had to get rid of him because he was getting too big to pick up easily and no matter what I did he seemed to knock the lids off.
 
This is why I gave up Aros not because they're too big or hard to keep...it's just their easily spook and injures itself and some cases kill itself cause of that.
 
TheBroc said:
How did you pick it up? Bare hands?

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Mine jumped out 5 times in the 5 years that I had him, and I just grabbed him firmly behind the pectoral fins with my bare hands. I tried using a towel a couple times, but I could never get a good enough grip on him that way. I finally solved the jumping issue by attaching heavy duty velcro straps to all my lids.
 
TheBroc said:
How did you pick it up? Bare hands?

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Mine jumped out 5 times within the first 3 years that I had him, and I just grabbed him firmly behind the pectoral fins with my bare hands. I tried using a towel a couple times, but I could never get a good enough grip on him that way.


blacktip said:
The one I had jumped out on numerous occasions and he recovered just fine every time. I must say that they are one strong smelling fish, though. I had to get rid of him because he was getting too big to pick up easily and no matter what I did he seemed to knock the lids off.
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Yuki Rihwa said:
This is why I gave up Aros not because they're too big or hard to keep...it's just their easily spook and injures itself and some cases kill itself cause of that.
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I ended up solving the jumping out issue by attaching heavy duty velcro straps to all my lids, but he died 2 years later, for no apparent reason. I wasn't around when it happened, but I was told that he was fine one minute, and the next, he wasn't moving at all. My only guess is that he had suffered a head injury. I think the only good long term solution is to lower the water level a bit, and to keep aros in a large enough aquarium to where when they get spooked, they have somewhere to go, other than up. This is the advice that Bderick67 gave me years ago, but I was hardheaded and didn't listen, and I think that is probably why my aro didn't make it.
 
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