List of Fish and other Livestock that can escape

[adrianlau]

My Longnose Hawkfish jumped out last night

Thought of compiling a list of livestock that jumps out of the tank:

1. Longnose Hawkfish

2. Octopus

[xersion]

from my pass exprience is tiger eel and shark sucker

[shawncel]

I have experience with the following fishes ending up in my sump:

1) Twin-spot hogfish

2) Sixline wrasse

3) Neon goby

[helldust]

flasher wrasse

[Dazza]

My jumpers include:

Tile fish - purple, skunk

Bartlett anthias

[jervismun]

1) Firefish

2) Twin Spot Goby

3) Shore (common) Goby

4) Lyretail Anthias

5) Cleaner Wrasse

[ambystoma82]

what is the purpose of this thrend?

or u all would like to think mayb wat made them escape?

[jacobus]

yea ... more impt is wad cause them to want to escape ? anyway my past exp ... mostly with gobies... and longnose hawk.

[KennethK]

Is that my longnose hawk? Been with me at least a yrs! Maybe there are aggressive fishes chasing it?

[jacobus]

dun think so ... cause longnose more agressive imo... chased my cardinal to death leh ...

[adrianlau]

Is that my longnose hawk? Been with me at least a yrs! Maybe there are aggressive fishes chasing it?

Sorry Bro KennethK, it indeed was your Long Nose Hawkfish .

Remember I asked you if it would jump? because I've read from somewhere before that these guys are prone to jumping and should cover the tank. But who in Singapore cover their Marine tank right? Only in the temperate countries that they cover the tank and use heaters.

Anyway, it was happily catching live baby mollies the night before. Just that it liked to rest on some equipment (thermometer probe, filter outlet pipes) near the surface of the water.

[KennethK]

Indeed it like to rest on equipments but i neber encounter it jumping. Should be aggressive fishes chasing it ie. tangs. Only encounter my wrasse jumping but i have lights as cover. Try another longnose, it's a nice fish to have esp when they take off from their resting area during feeding time.

[Earth]

I believe fishes will not jump for no apparent reasons. I have a clown fish and solar wrasse that jumped out of the tank. But I noticed that they have been stressed by more agressive fishes before they decided to commit suicide.

Therefore when u notice that a stressed fish is near the water surface, do watch out for it....

[searching4dan]

for mine

1) Common Clown (jumped out)

2) LongNose HawkFish

for my HawkFish, it was with me for a month

looks stable.. was aggressive too.. kinda a bully in my tank..

but still it jumped out..

found it 2 days later under my dining table

it became a DRIED specimen..

color and eyes still intact.. juz dried up ..

make me have the intention of actualli keeping it for souvnier.. lol

[adrianlau]

LongNose Hawkfish prone to escape, as described here:

LongNose HawkFish