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[GuppiesRock]

So guppies are a bit stupid sometimes.

Last night I was on my computer when one of my cats walked over to my little bin next the breeding tank and he was checking out a shopping bag that had fallen out of the bin....he suddenly jumped backwards and then my staffy ever so gently nudged the cat out of the way (read flung the cat about two feet) and licked what was on the bag. I jumped up and pulled the dog away worried he was going to eat something bad for him, only to find my turquoise male laying on the bag looking pretty dry....even though he had just been licked by the dog. I grabbed him by the tail and dumped him back in the tank....cursing the whole time. I put him in a floating basket as he was swimming kind of wonky and the other makes were hassling him and hoped for the best. This morning he is swimming around as if nothing happened. Silly fish....lol

He managed to jump out of a gap in the glass that is about 2-3mm. Time for some lace across the top of the tank again me thinks.

[Riggers]

Haha that's awesome:) glad he's ok.. I had a frontosa jump out of a tank in the middle of the night.. If it wasn't for the loud splash and the fish flopping on the tiles it would have been crispy by the morning

[GuppiesRock]

Amazing how we can hear them sometimes.  I heard a tigerbarb flopping on carpet after the silly thing had leapt out of the tank many moons ago (about 16 years ago actually).  Hubby's face was priceless when I leapt out of bed, at about 8 months pregnant, freaking out and saying "there is a fish out, there's a fish out..I can hear it"...and then proceeded to find the fish and chuck it back in the tank...LOL.

[bigjohnnofish]

i rarely find crispies on the floor with 4 dogs... one day i was cycling a tank at the bottom of the rack with 2 goldfish and i came in to find only fish in the tank and no evidence where it went to... called the dogs and asked them to kiss me one didnt want too had fish breath lol

[GuppiesRock]

Hehe....and they say dogs are stupid....yours are pretty clever to know fish breath would give it away hahaha
We have 3 cats and the dog and we have had the numbers drop but bodies were never found.....the cats seemed to hang around the tanks for a couple of weeks after that though....very suspicious lol

Edited by GuppiesRock, 13 October 2014 - 09:42 AM.

[Luke134]

My guppies insist on launching themselves out of the tank and onto the floor, pity my Labrador usually finds them before I do :/

[GuppiesRock]

Oh no....lol

[bigjohnnofish]

My guppies insist on launching themselves out of the tank and onto the floor, pity my Labrador usually finds them before I do :/

 

check water parameters... they only do that consistantly if theres something wrong... high ammonia . nitrites or nitrates.... or ph has dropped quickly....

[GuppiesRock]

Luckily in my case it wasn't water that was the issue, rather it was other males chasing him and him trying a little too exuberantly to get away from them which led to him obviously shooting out of the tiny gap in the corner. I had witnessed it earlier that day they were chasing each other around like lunatics. Thankfully they seem to have settled down now. If it happens again I will check the water. Good info there Bigjohnnofish, thank you.