Weird appearance

[Gabe]

So this morning when I was coming out the shower I decided to stop for a few seconds to check my tank before I head to work right.... To my surprise I see a new fish there, well ( not new) but after thinking it was dead my yellow flanked wrasse was swimming and healthier fatter than ever like nothing had happened. For 2 months I thought this guy was gone. Funny the things that happen in our tanks huh.... Btw I moved the rock 3 weeks ago and he wasn't in any of them, probably he was in the sand.

 

[Gabe]

Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[masterswimmer]

Many times. Same thing has happened with fish. I had a beautiful Linckia Multifora in my tank. Disappeared and left for dead. Had to be minimum of 6 months later, maybe as much as 8 months later it miraculously reappeared. One of the reasons I love this hobby.

Russ

 

[jf2381]

It's happed to me. I found a couple of royal gramma in my sump 6 months after I added them to my display. I qt'd them for a month added them to the tank and gone the next day. I added them small and found them doubled the size.

 

[lanacane214]

i always look for my blue spot jawfish the dissapeared 1 year ago,looks like there still hope lol

 

[Gabe]

For me this was the longest a fish went lost. 2 months, and got bigger and fatter. Wonder what he ate.

 

[greenstreet.1]

It happens to me a lot I have a lot of wrasses they stay in the sand for days sometimes.

 

[Gabe]

My leopard wrasses stay in the sand for a few days, but not for 2 months.

 

[greenstreet.1]

I have two that's in the sand since yesterday.

 

[Arati]

I went to a customer tank, first visit freshwater tank.

I pop open the canister filter and remove the baskets and in the 1" area at the bottom of the filter i find four guppies. they where clear and colorless. they where fully grown and must have been sucked into the filter as babys and grown up in the filter.

 

[Gabe]

Wow

 

[Reefcowboy]

Thats a crazy story! My platinum clown went MIA when i switched to a rimless tank, so you gave me hope hes around somewhere lol

 

[Gabe]

How long ago?

 

[Gabe]

Close thread please

 

[albano]

my yellow flanked wrasse ... probably he was in the sand.

I don't think a fairy wrasse will bury itself in the sand

 

[Gabe]

I moved the rocks it wasn't there, took most of the rocks out, inspected them (yes inspected them .... Don't know where it was then! Perhaps it took a trip to the Caribbean .... Your educated guess is as good as mine... I GUESS...

 

[Gabe]

Hey Alfie let's close this thread, what do you say?

 

[Arati]

why?

 

[Gabe]

I honestly thought that nobody was really interested, but I see now I was WRONG. So lets go!!

 

[Gabe]

why?

Arati??? Are you there??? Arati...