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Old 07-02-2007, 05:24 PM
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A kind of general question about missing fish... Ahem.

What's the longest you've had a fish go missing in your tank, and then had it reappeared from its well thought-out hiding spot?

The reason I ask is my new jawfish was spooked the other day (I guess I moved a little too quick) he swam to the back of the tank and I haven’t seen him since. That was Friday night…

He’s not “out of water” – I’ve quadruple checked, plus the tank is 100% screened off for now (to prevent him carpet surfing) So he’s either hiding or…

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Old 07-02-2007, 05:26 PM
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Old 07-02-2007, 05:29 PM
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Oopes! Today's Monday, not Sunday (sat's always throw me off!). He vanished Saturday night.

3 days, that's good (well, for me)!
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I had a Tomi tang go missing for a few days shy of a month. Gone one evening, and reappeared one morning after he'd been written off as MIA.
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We generally see our dancing goby every 6 months or so. He is so small, and there are tons of spots to hid in my tank, but we thought we would see him more than we do :-) We named him "Bigfoot" due to the rare amount of times he appears.

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We named him "Bigfoot" due to the rare amount of times he appears.
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I "lost" a small goby for 2 months...turns out he was living in the overflow box the entire time.
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your jawfish may be making a burrow at the back of your tank. We had a jawfish for about 6 months and whenever it would get spooked my something it would leave its old burrow and go and make a new one. I think we went close to a week withour seeing ours.
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yikes a week! Thanks for the help all!
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We had a firefish go into hidding for almost 2 weeks before being seen again.
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