F8 Day!!!

[jimi]

cailm down i have had a puffer sleeping in places i still dont knwo where are im sure hes in the tank give him a bit and then look for him im sure hell stumble out when hes done with his nap

ps how much did you pay for that moss ball around here they want ten for one which sounds good but i think my fish would eat it ..... which would be throwing money away

[Pandora]

You think so? I have really turned the tank upside down looking so he must be in a coma somewhere coz I didn't find him dead anywhere.........I even checked in the lid and on the floor round the tank

I am in UK, the moss ball was £2.99 I have one in the DP tank too, the oto doesn't bother with it, and in the F8 tank the BBG's like to sleep on it lol

[jimi]

yeah but my only tank that would support it has a breeding pair of whisker shrimp and my friends moss ball got eaten my his mono shrimp and hwere im willing to pay ten dollars for shrimp as food im not willing to pay 10 for shrimp food pluse my corys have been eating algae lately and they might munch on the moss ball pluse 10 bucks...i would rather buy a book and yes if he isnt under the tank by the tank or dead in the tank hes a cleaver hider and will resurfice when he awakens i have done this will my red eye figure 8 and even a 6 inch black ghost knife they hide some times and dont want to be found buy will come out to beg for food ( im pretty sure) give him some time

[Pandora]

Hopefully he'll re-surface I just can't believe he slept through my rummaging around!! I dunno why I checked the floor and everywhere, I know he was in there after the last time I took the lid off, I just don't get it

My Cherry shrimp in the DP tank tidy the moss ball up but they don't eat it lol

[jimi]

yeah well i have never seen distruction to plants like my friends mono shrimp ( which if memory serves me is a algae shrimp) and my whisker shrimp will eat any thing they can pick up or rip off algae fish food fish poop the works theres noting i havent seen them eat sometimes i can see the sand color in there stomachs ( being a species of ghost shrimp you can see the color of what they ate )

[julianchan]

They are gorgeous. Dont fret too much, Pandora, he will show up. Puffers can be masters of hiding when they want to.

[Pandora]

I hope so

[jessyblue]

I hope so much that you can find your puffer healthy!!!!

Best,
Jessy

[Pandora]

Disaster has struck

Somehow Ted managed to jump through the hole on the back of the tank lid that the cable/air tube go through, i found him under the cabinet at lunch time, I feel awful. I have taped up the hole until my husband sorts something out tonight so Bill doesn't go the same way

[jessyblue]

Oh no ,
I'm really sorry.

[jimi]

ohh poor ted im sorry for your lose

[xspainx69]

I am sorry for your loss. Thank God my F8's havent tried to go komakazi.

I am pretty sure water parameters play a role in a fish's decision to jump out of the water.

I am relatively new to keeping Brackish water fish myself, but from my Freshwater experience in the past I have noticed that poor water quality can lead a fish to jump out of the tank.

[jimi]

puffers jump alot of fish jump i doubt it was water i mean if someones water is so bad there fish jumped out of the tank then they shouldnt have fish im sure her waters fine because her other puffers fine minus some ich that im sure was the stores fault

[recombinantrider]

I'm sorry for your loss. It's a freak accident......

[Pandora]

Thanks everybody, yeah the water is fine apart from being a bit warm coz of getting rid of the ich.....maybe he was too warm
My husband made a perspex cover last night to go under the lid so it will never happen again, i feel so awful
On a lighter note......Bill is going round like a little rocket and the ich seems to be on the way out, I may get him a friend (Ted2!) at the weekend