I'm So Pissed!!!

[Nemesis]

Ok, so last night I buy a 4" Clown Loach from a guy on cl looking to adopt his fish. I pick it up a 11 PM and it's gorgeous. I get home and acclimate it for an hour, then throw it in with my two other loaches. I go to sleep, so exited to have gotten such a nice fish for $5. When I woke this morning I found it on the floor about 2 feet from the tank all dried up . What really surprised me was that it jumped through a gap less than an inch wide, and almost the same width as the loach itself. It had to make a perfect jump to get out . Man I'm so pissed. It never crossed my mind that it would jump, as I never had any loaches jump before.

I took a few pics of him before I went to sleep. RIP John "Clown Loach" Doe.

 

[TwistedPenguin]

It's tough to lose any fish but to a Loach hits hard, doesn't it? I feel your pain. I lost my 7" Green Terror the same way, I still don't know how he got out, there was no holes anywhere near big enough.
I'm sorry you lost him.

 

[justonemoretank]

I'm so sorry to hear that. I've never had them jump either, and never would have thought they would be the type. Sorry for your loss.

 

[Hoyo12]

Sorry for the loss.

 

[Nemesis]

Thanks all. On a positive note though, my 2 GT's that haven't been eating for close to a month due to the "mysterious gt disease" finally came out to eat yesterday, and no more white poop .

 

[groovitudedude]

Sorry man...

 

[Angler]

Sorry for your loss. I had a small pack of clown loaches and one dissapeared. It was missing for days, and I finally found it inside the tank stand.

 

[irab]

Sorry about your loach

 

[meerak]

damn. sorry bout that loach.

 

[Rhorie]

sorry to hear that, the same happened to me with my albino red-tail, so i moved onto salt water and only buy big-ones now so they cant fit through any gaps