Flame Hawk jump into the overflow

[chanbi]

2 days ago, when i reached home at night and start feeding... realised that the flame hawk is not coming out to eat (very unlike him). Start to get worry and after searching high & low, found him in the overflow. Luckily my turnover is high and there are enough water in the overflow (he is laying on top the cotton filter that i put before the bioballs). When i put him back to the main tank, he quickly disappear into the rock/cave. The next morning, luckily he come out to eat when i start feeding.. Keeping my finger cross that he will make it!!

[dodo]

lucky flame hawk you have

ever heard of anemonie climb to the overflow and choke your overflow?

it will...if you are not aware

not for sand anemonies though

[Phang]

Very common incident.....

My Purple Fire Fish, Longfin, Six liner, Pygmy Angel and Blenny does that too...

Hmmmm.... maybe they are just bored... so wanted some excitment....

[yazid]

When I first bought the small horseshoe hawkfish, he tends to wonder every corner of the tank. He then dissapear.

It goes over the overflow into the sump filtration and survive for a week in shallow (1/2 inch) water. Saw him there went I was cleaning the sponge. He learns his lesson and stop wandering near the overflow.

Tough guy.

Although some other species doesn't like clownfish.

[kelstorm]

yup.. i experience that too.. i do not even know how some of my little baby gobies and mollies end up in my sump.. and i tot my parents played a prank on me.. wat is amazing is that, how they managed to go thru the filtering media... another case of x-files...

[Stenopus Hispidus]

dodo

                           Posted on Dec 13 2002, 01:44 PM

...ever heard of anemonie climb to the overflow and choke your overflow?

Not anemone. My flame hawk did just that! It leapt over the strainer into the overflow chamber. Its body got sucked into the PVC pipe and block the passage of water down to my sump and my tank overflowed from the top. Poor bugger. I bought another one later, and it leapt out of my tank for drying. That's my second and the last of this fish.