Green terror attempted suicide

[tskemble]

I found my son's new GT on the floor behind his tank tonight. He just got it on friday night. It was barely still wet when I finally figured out where it was. I put it back in the tank and moved it back and forth. It was still breathing so I placed it on top of some drift wood. about 5 minutes later it started to swim again.

I have never had a fish jump out of the tank before. I moved every rock and peice of wood in that tank before it occured to me that it might have jumped out. Man I hope it makes it. This is the second green terror he was gotten.

He talked me into buying the first one for his little 46g bow front before the filter was completely cycled. So we put it in my 230. I knew it was a bad idea but was hoping we would get lucky and nothing would eat it. It lasted about 6 hours before my tsn found it. That was one expensive feeder. Thankfully my son thought it was really cool how fat the shovel nose was the next morning.

 

[volcomstone]

I hope your son's GT makes it. Just keep the lights off to minimize stress.

 

[cichlid_starter]

Hey and if it doesn't make it you could always head to the north side of Indianapolis. I have been beefing up the green terrors at the Petco I work at. plus they are on sale. Good luck with yours though man. Hope it works out.

 

[lancerlot]

I've had Green terrors jump out of tanks all the time. Lost 3, 6" males. I find If they can get out. They will. But now that I think of it. They are like that :O

 

[Rusty Gilbert]

Hope hes ok. Funny though when i was 13 i had one and my friend was sleeping over and he was laying parallel w the tank the GT actually jumped out and landed on his blanket. He got a little freaked out at first and then ran and got a spoon and put him back in the tank.

Then with this tank i went to my lfs and instead of one of the oscars i have now i was going to have a gt but then the lfs worker took him out of the tank he jumped out of the net and hit the tile floor pretty hard when they put him back in the tank he was acting pretty weird so i didnt get him.

 

[Damon0306]

Many years ago I had an Oscar do the same thing, I was in my bedroom sleeping were the tank was, I heard a big bang, I looked at the tank still half asleep and laided back down.

About 2 mins later the fish was flopping on the edge of my bed, scared the S**T out of me!

 

[TwistedPenguin]

That's how I lost my big Green Terror. I had lids but one of the cats jumped up and knocked it into the tank. Must've spooked the GT. I didn't find mine until it was too late though. Pretty much all Cichlids will jump out of an uncovered tank.

 

[cichlidtaters]

gt are known to be jumpers. on my 125 have a plexiglass cover and then my wood canopy on top of that. i 've seen him flip out before and bang into the plexiglass...BAM! this has happened more then once... ofcourse i feel feel bad for him. an 8" gt hitting the plexiglass makes a loud thump too

 

[netsam69]

Thats crazy I hope fish makes it. I have 2 GT's they are about 4 to 5 inchs but they never come out from behind the rocks. They are pretty when they do come out but as soon as someone walks in the room they hide.

 

[TrikkyMakk]

GTs are known to jump!