weve got a jumper....

[ChickenTeeth]

Lost lots same way, cept i don't learn!!!

 

[shmeva_riles_7]

that sucks 8'' that is a BIG LOSS! how long have u had him

 

[posteo]

sorry man, i had a 13" oscar that jumped to its death about a year ago to and it sucks

 

[tnnsman7]

My wife got me a tigrinis cat for our anniversary one year. I found it on the fish room floor dead one morning, it jumped out of a 1" gap. That one really hurt!

 

[sprtslvr785]

I was sitting at my computer about two days ago and all of a sudden I heard this big splash then a thumb and one of my piranhas jumped out of the back of the tank (it was covered but he knocked the top off!) Luckily I was sitting here so I could throw him back in the tank. Now he has a gash above his eye, but he will heal by next week.

 

[guppy]

Glad you were there, you might look into some latches, they look like hinges and are only a coulpe bucks at the hardware store, they glue right on to the tank. I had to do that with eels because they would brace against the tank bottom and push the lid up.

 

[pacu girl]

i had a 15 in silver arowana and my boyfriend and i went away for 2 days to celebrate our anniversary when we came back "stretch" was dried up on the carpet stiff as a board he managed to get through a very small opening where teh intake outtake tubes were for our canister filter. we still dont knoe how he managed to escape. but his mom did us a favor and fed them one day for us so i wonder if he escaped then

 

[fw180galma]

My 16x14 Pacu jumped last week, found him almost on the other side of the garage.

 

[te9500rpm]

why do they jump? dont they like their surroundings? or the water? or what? do flowerhorns jump too?

 

[Dragon]

My 8" Oscar jumped tank on Thursday - slipped out of a 2" gap in the glass lid that I had failed to get recut after breaking it a few months back. Didn't find him until Friday morning shrivelled up on the living room floor. It was one of those "what's that" moments when I saw the lump sitting there. Didn't even clue in until I was right overtop of him.

Lesson learned - glass was recut and placed over tank by Sunday

I had an oscar once that would jump out of the tank everytime I opened it in anticipation of being fed. Even if I wasn't feeding them at the time. I quickly learned to throw a quick pinch of food in there first, he would inevitably hit the top, but then start eating, then I could open the top and put the rest of the food in there.

Sorry for your loss.