Unsolved fish mysteries.

[mudbuttjones]

Look at this little houdini guy.


Tiny fry makes it into my sump. Through an overflow, the plumbing with intake strainers, and 2 mechanical trays in a wetdry tower.... then Bioballs, pot scrubs, etc.

How is this possible ?

I have some large 1-2" fish growing out in my sump on the otherside of the divider, but I haven't been able to catch any mbuna breeding successfully since I moved the tank in November.

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[predatorkeeper87]

I am missing a butterfly fish out of my African theme tank, no body, nothing in the tank big enough to eat it, "wings" and all, only conclusion I came to is it jumped out, and my ferrets found it first and "stored" it for me in the couch they made into their own private den. I'll know in a few days I'm sure.

 

[Jmart159]

I always hope to find baby fish in my filters but never do.

 

[jamntoast]

I once rigged up a filter so that there was a block/sheet of poret filter foam behind a fibre glass background on a 90 I had. One day I'm doing maintenance and I notice a little Geo had gotten stuck between the filter and the back ground piece. I had to rip out the whole back ground to free it and when I did I found another one. They had both been living in a tiny 1/2" gap for months

 

[monkeybike]

We had an octopus that would crawl out of his tank and visit his neighbors at night. Lost a few shrimp out of the tanks thanks to him.

 

[appak]

I had a chromis that jumped from the DT into the rear chambers of an IM Nuvo tank. Couldn't catch the bugger so I left it there for a week or two. Then it disappeared.

Found it, by chance, a month later, in the ATO reservoir bucket under the stand. I still have no idea how it got in there. It defies the laws of physics, unless it did some kind of rappelling, or had a tiny fish parachute...

Yes, it was quite dead. :/

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[mudbuttjones]

I don't know if I'm more surprised he survived the impossible journey into the sump or the fact that he wasnt eaten before he got to the overflow.

When I first started fish keeping my drunk room mates insisted I get some of those cool freshwater crabs. So I bought like 3 or 4 of them. The problem was my slate background on the 75 looked like this
So it was no problem for the crabs to scale it. I'd find them on my kitchen table, inside my HOB filters, on the window sill, on top of the tank. My roommmates cat was chasing one around one day. I kept putting them back in the tank. Eventually they all sortof disappeared. Then one day I'm rearranging furniture and found a crispy one underneath the couch way way way far away from my tank.

My old man told me stories of finding big fat kuhli loaches living in his undergravel plates when he broke a bunch of tanks down in the 90's

Crafty little buggers

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[celebrist]

Had some dojo loaches breeding in my under gravel years ago.
Currently I have some danio fry in my sump much like the op. Breed in the big tank, overflow into the mechanical filtration, through the bio chambers . I even have one that appears to have survived going through the return pump and to the frog corner. Amazing