What's the longest time a fish has hid on you for?

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by christyf5

I know, I thought he had died in a tank overheat 3 summers before. I was totally shocked on moving day when he was hanging out in the tank after I'd taken all the rock in. And devastated when he died only a few hours later. Very cryptic fish. You'll also find that with your pygmy hawk. I had one of those as well, I had previously kept him in my nano tank and decided to move him into my 90gallon. Didn't see him for a couple of weeks and thought maybe he didnt' make it but about 2 weeks later there he was, cranky as ever, flipping me the bird from his hidey hole. As he got more comfortable he would spend more time out in the open so I saw him more often. He bit it in the tank move too. *sigh*

That sucks your tank move didn't go so well I had a firefish jump out during a tank move and it really sucks to lose a fish that way.

Seems like they are a pretty cryptic fish, there's not a lot of info. on them so I didn't know the were like that. I do love their colouration though.

On a side note, I'm surprised by how long fish will hide for. I always used to think a fish couldn't hide without being seen at all for any more then 2-3 weeks.

[PoonTang]

2 mystery crabs that I never even knew that I had until I was tearing down my tank after my big crash this summer. The tank was 2 years old and had survived 3 moves and I had never even seen them. They survived the crash by crawling up my coraline covered back wall to just above the waterline.

[sharuq1]

Not a fish but I don't see my pom-pom crab or bee shrimp for 3 months or more and then one day there they will be.

[fishytime]

I may or may not have(leaning towards not) a hectors gobie that I didnt see for six months after I added it....I was actually looking for a big arse hairy crab with a flashlight light when I caught a glimpse of it...