Do you have dive bombers?

[FINWIN]

Fish that happily will take a flying leap out of the tank?

Currently I have two fish known to 'jump'. My Oscar Brick used to do it at around 7" but has since stopped. He'd leap and grab a knuckle and hang on forcing me to shake him loose. Now he's content to bang the glass lid instead. Seems to have been a phase he went through. I'm not complaining...it was enough to stop his flapping at 7 inches, I don't want to do it now at 11 inches! Bad enough I get soaked when he's excited at the top.

My active jumper is my female parrot Patch...she's a hyper aggressive nutter at times. If I have her favorite pellets she gets impatient and shoots out of the water to grab one (even when a finger is attached). Fortunately I keep the glass lid at an angle so she doesn't have a clear lane to fly out.

 

[Chicxulub]

Lol I can't say I have that problem at present, which I count as a good thing! I lost a gar to a jump about six months ago however

 

[Jexnell]

Only when the water is low during water changes will Casper jump out the water at me. When full he will hover right at the surface and stare me down.

I had a PTC jump out overnight.

 

[Nilsafeller]

My old male jack would jump and grab at my fingers when I feed him... once he grabbed on and I flung my hand away... he shot up 3 feet and landed back in the tank haha

 

[Hendre]

I often hear my polys or rope splashing at night. Makes me jump when I am trying to sleep

 

[Fat Homer]

All my tanks with jumpers have the openings sealed off, after i’ve lost a few eels in the past...

 

[neutrino]

Frontosa will do it, have a tendency to dart when startled, which seems to happen every so often and randomly with no one in their room. Tough fish, there are tales of people finding them sticky or almost dried out on the floor, and having them revive after being put back in the tank. Some do it when you approach the tank, my gibberosa kapampa are tamer than that. Count on them doing it if you walk too close to the tank with a foreign object, mine are used to the vacuum cleaner, but a box, a towel, etc. will spook them.

People think of Cyphotilapia as slow moving fish, which they are most of the time, but they're capable of impressive bursts of speed.