Geogal17
06/28/2004, 02:48 PM
Hi Y'all
Just got back from Florida! It was hot, muggy, and the people at Seaworld don't have a clue about marine fish whatsoever, but it was still fun.
I just had to share my exciting surprise when I got home:
We have a small in tank refugium that has some cheato in it. As soon as I walked in the door the first thing I did was check on the tank to make sure my inlaws didn't accidentally kill anything. lo and behold, who should be TRAPPED in the box but my big, evil, blue devil damsel. :lol:
I have no idea how he did it, the box is full of cheato, the rim is less than 1 inch below the sirface of the water, and its only opening is the open top- but somehow my 5 inch damsel manages not only to get himself into the box, he squirmed his way under the cheato, this trapping himself in a "net" of cheato. :D It was a piece of cake to just take out the box and transfer him to the tank currently acting as a " sump".
It really amuses me because I have been trying for weeks to get that PITA fish out of my tank, but as soon as he even sees the green net in my hand he freaks and hides, or worse, frantically panics and knocks over everything in the tank. I've tried everything to catch that fish short of removing all the live rock, and I was actually planning on having the hubby help me with that once we were back. But I guess the little rascal got a little too curious about what was in that box in " his" territory. I guess he had to do a Shamu type jump to get in the box, because I really can't imagine how else he got in there.
:beer:
Heres to the sheer stupidity of my fish!
Just got back from Florida! It was hot, muggy, and the people at Seaworld don't have a clue about marine fish whatsoever, but it was still fun.
I just had to share my exciting surprise when I got home:
We have a small in tank refugium that has some cheato in it. As soon as I walked in the door the first thing I did was check on the tank to make sure my inlaws didn't accidentally kill anything. lo and behold, who should be TRAPPED in the box but my big, evil, blue devil damsel. :lol:
I have no idea how he did it, the box is full of cheato, the rim is less than 1 inch below the sirface of the water, and its only opening is the open top- but somehow my 5 inch damsel manages not only to get himself into the box, he squirmed his way under the cheato, this trapping himself in a "net" of cheato. :D It was a piece of cake to just take out the box and transfer him to the tank currently acting as a " sump".
It really amuses me because I have been trying for weeks to get that PITA fish out of my tank, but as soon as he even sees the green net in my hand he freaks and hides, or worse, frantically panics and knocks over everything in the tank. I've tried everything to catch that fish short of removing all the live rock, and I was actually planning on having the hubby help me with that once we were back. But I guess the little rascal got a little too curious about what was in that box in " his" territory. I guess he had to do a Shamu type jump to get in the box, because I really can't imagine how else he got in there.
:beer:
Heres to the sheer stupidity of my fish!