well....this sucks......i woke up this morning and im lookin around in my tank, and theres a lot of orange going on, but no white and yellow.....so i look around and look around...aaaaaaaand...my snowflake isnt in there anymore i dont think....i looked for a good 10 minutes and even put a piece of food in there.....no luck... i have a feeling he jumped out....i checked in the overflow box...not in there..and i checked in the sump....not in there either..... maaaaaaaaan...this sucks....i had him since my first setup.... =[ never had a canopy on ANY of my tanks....and now he decides to take a plunge.... i hope hees just well hidden under a rock.... =(
Check your inlet/outlet tubes (unless they are clear and you could see him in there). You may also want to check all the room where the tank is, an eel is quite mobile, even when out of water - he may have crawled who knows where in the search for more water! I hope he's hidden as well, im sorry he is missing in action!
well...if he somehow got into my overflow, the only place for him to go from there is into my sump...through the pvc piping....its a half inch pipe....he could easily slide through there if he was to go in there...but it goes straight down into my sump....no turns or anything...so he would be sittin in the first chamber in my sump if he was to do that.....which he's not.....and from in the sump, theres absolutely no way for him to get back into the tank..from the return pipe....i have a filter pad in my sump inbetween the two chambers which there is no way anything can get past it, and even if he miraculously found a way, theres a prefilter on my return pump....sooo...yea.. hes not in there... =( it really sucks that i now have to tear my room apart to find him if he really did jump out...and im not moving any rock in my tank to find him due to the fact i dont want to bother my clowns at all..
atleast now they dont have to worry about being eel food if hes not in there... lol
This is true, the clowns perhaps will no longer have to worry about becoming eel fodder. It is always possible the clowns "gank'ed" your eel - they are DAMNsel's in disguise after all and can be highly territorial. They may have hounded the eel into deciding that life in the tank was not worth the constant stress of the clowns!
The eel could still be in there, give it a few days, perhaps look for him with a flash light once the lights go off. It's only been a few hours - that long slithering predator could still be there. Of course, if you start smelling decay and stench in your fish room you are going to have to go looking for his corpse! Lets hope he's still in the tank! Keep an eye on your monster hermit as well, if the eel is still in the tank, perished, that hermit will head for the remains, if he can get to them, to consume them!
lmao the clowns chasing him out was an idea that pooed into my mind mind...them chasing him out into the tank....lol
unless hes under my 90$ piece of live rock.... thts right...i paid 90$ for one single piece of live rock...lol if hees under there..then yea that would be ok.... but other than that, normally i can see a part of his body when i look in my tank...where ever he may be......i dont see him anywhere...
not yet....i wanted to give it a day or so before i started tearin my bedroom apart trying to look for him.......im off tomorrow so i can do it then......hopefully he will be under my desk and not like....behind my dresser...because i cant exactly move my dresser....it has my gf's 29g f/w tank on top of it....lol
Hello PVT Very disturbing to hear your eel is missing. I sure hope he is hiding out in your tank, but if not, he is in dire straits. Please get a flashlight if you have one and take just 5 more minutes, for me please, and look for him again. Please. Get on your hands and knees and look everywhere in the vacinity arount your tank. Behind/under objects. If he did get out of the tank, he probably went in search of a place to hide for protection. Just 5 minutes is all I'm asking. Thanks.
so today..i went to the lfs and added new creatures to my tank since the clowns........i got 2 turbo snails and a lettuce nudibranch. ill post a pic of the nudi when i got a chance.
thats a shame. sorry about your loss....how old was it? 18' long, i would imagine well over 10 years?
who needs a dog when you have an 18' python guarding your house....lol
sorry it took so long to respond ... duty calls around the house though.
i had that girl since she was 24" long !! i had her for almost 11 years, and i miss that big girl every day. when i had her put down she was 18' 3" long and weighed 135lbs. of course she was very well fed or she would not have gotten that big that fast. you can kind of see her cage in the background of the pic ... i would LITERALLY get inside the cage and lay down on the floor with her for hours (before i got into this hobby of course), and she would just ball up around me (using my body heat to keep warm) and catch some ZZZs.
you should have seen some of the looks i would get when we took her out in public !!
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omg if i saw that snake in public, i would freak! did you turn her cage into a fish tank? it seems like it could be a mighty big one.... lol or is it one of those reptile tanks with the holes drilled in it for the vents?
well..my hermit crab is a monster....lol when i put the snails in, he immediatly rean over to them and attacked them...so i chsed him away with my net....and then my nudibranch was hiding in a rock and the hermin found him and attacked him...luckily i saw it in time....and i was able to scoop him yp quick enough.....it looks like he gave him a little cut though. i took him and put him on the glass where i have a veggie clip w/ seaweed on....hees been therre since.....
and whats with my turbo snails laying on their backs with their feet sticking out? lol do they know how to flip themselves back over? or are they not talented enough like their freshwater brethren? lol
Your hermit crab is what he is. If I'm not mistaken he is of the Dardanus sp. which is very aggressive, not reef safe, which lives off of tube worms, mollusks, algea, fish and any other living thing he can get his claws on that is not of an aggressive nature themselves. Introducing any non aggressive species to your tank will ultimately lead into a fatality eventually. He did well with the eel, due to the eels small size at the time because the eel was aggressive also. Clowns, snails, nudibranch are non aggressive species.
well..he hsant bothered anything else latley...i think it was that.."oh. new thing in the tank, lets find out what it is..." so he has that first instinct to jump on top of it and observe it.....he attacked the snail, but then he let it go once he realized that he wasnt food.... and he hasnt bothered it since....so..thats good....they been on the floor all day too...im hopin he learned his lesson after i chased him away....
if anythign....theres always a sump he can go in...haha like a time out sort of thing.... =P
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