She was a good fish...
My beautiful Striped Dog face Puffer committed suicide. I couldn't find her yesterday when I went to feed them before the swap but thought maybe she was pouting cause I was late feeding them. But, I moved rocks and never found her. So today I was looking again and I climbed behind my tank ( some of U may know how hard that is). I looked down when I almost fell behind it and there she was staring at me. She was all puffed up. I guess she had jumped out. SNIFF, SNIFF!
I put the half glass back one now I just thought they would like the air.
I've had a couple puffers do that, most of the time I find them in time, but I lost a salivator once that very same way, only my dogs had found it and taken it outside, so when I finally did find it, it was covered in dirt and dog hair. I nearly cried.
My Puffers: Puffers I have kept: T lineatus T miurus A modestus T biocellatus C valentini C coranata C papuan C lorteti DPs suvattii burrfish T niphobles
Shakespeare is a powerful jumper when spooked. He has always had very heavy duty covers, but the noise he can make on impact and the water displaced by the splashing is incredible for a 4" GSP. Never stand up suddenly when working in the sump, especially at night! He likes to see the humans coming.
No matter how magnificent your successes or devastating your failures, the worlds' approximately 5 billion impoverished people could not possibly care less.
Actually, this reminds me. JP, do you have a cover for the bottom tank? These guys jump out of the water regularly (like several times per day).
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. We consider those, when the cerebral structure/intellectual faculties most developed, as highest. A bee doubtless would when the instincts were.
Charles Darwin
That is truely very sad.
