Vapor Posted October 15, 2006 Report Share Posted October 15, 2006 Just curious if Plecos jump. Might seem like a stupid question, but I woke up this morning to find a two inch Rubber Lip Pleco a little dried out and quite dead from carpet surfing. Really sucks as this is my first loss in quite some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a1foxes Posted October 15, 2006 Report Share Posted October 15, 2006 Just curious if Plecos jump. Might seem like a stupid question, but I woke up this morning to find a two inch Rubber Lip Pleco a little dried out and quite dead from carpet surfing. Really sucks as this is my first loss in quite some time. Sorry for your loss, in an odd way I feel kinda good cause now I know it's not just me that it happens to... :boxed: I lost a 12" L25 Scarlett a couple months ago, same thing, jumped out of his tank. Just last week I lost a 6" common pleco exactly the same way, and the dang tank even had a lid. He managed to jump his way through a small hole in the back of the lid. I'm rather paranoid now. Thought angels, cichlids etc would be the jumpers, well, honestly, I have lost more plecs to jumping than anything else. Pricey problem too- the L25 was worth about $400. Guess the trick is to make sure the holes are smaller than the fish, and you lash the top down just in case they decide to try anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vapor Posted October 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2006 He managed to jump his way through a small hole Yeah mine went through about a one inch strip along the back of my tank. For such an overall unactive fish I never would have thought it possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molino Posted October 15, 2006 Report Share Posted October 15, 2006 Same thing happened to one of my Plecos, jumped out the back where I had a small hole for the HOB filter. Seems like it's not such an unusual occurance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmguy Posted October 15, 2006 Report Share Posted October 15, 2006 fish have been reported to jump out of ponds and such before earthquakes and other metorlogial events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a1foxes Posted October 15, 2006 Report Share Posted October 15, 2006 fish have been reported to jump out of ponds and such before earthquakes and other metorlogial events. I may be a bit slow on some days, but I'm sure I would have noticed and earthquake lol. They say the same thing about some animals freaking out in certain ways, but if that were the case with fish you'd think there would be a rash of losses for alot of people around the same time? good question though, hhhmmm I smell a research project hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOSStile Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 I had 2 plecos in 2 different tanks 6 feet apart jump out of their tanks during the night a while back and they wound up laying beside each other on the carpet, no really I did!! I wrote it off to some kind of suicide pact, but I didn't find a note... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukep77 Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 My common pleco tries for the lid on a nightly bassis. He usualy slams in to it and then goes back down. I had a arrowana that decided to make a escape and hit my dog right on the head. Harley had no idea what hit him. the strange thing was that he some how got through a opening about 1.5 inches, and he was about a foot long at the time. The pleco has been doing that from the day we got him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go4Long Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 (edited) my plecos shoot up to the surface and back down again all the time, but I'm yet to have them jump out of the tank on me. I think my crayfish might get in fights in the middle of the night though cus every now and then we hear a weird splooshing sound coming from their tank in the middle of the night...maybe they're gettin ready to do a tandem jump :P Edited November 1, 2006 by Go4Long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ichthyosporidium Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 fish have been reported to jump out of ponds and such before earthquakes and other metorlogial events. I may be a bit slow on some days, but I'm sure I would have noticed and earthquake lol. They say the same thing about some animals freaking out in certain ways, but if that were the case with fish you'd think there would be a rash of losses for alot of people around the same time? good question though, hhhmmm I smell a research project hehe An earthquake measuring two or even three on the richter scale can be missed by the majority of people. many will mistake a tremor as a momentary loss of balance and not realise it for what it really was. Probably due to the mass amount of distraction daily life creates for us. Plecostomus, are amazing jumpers. I had a 5" bristlenose take a fluorescent hood lid off it's hinges. Maybe being a bottom dweller and watching all the other tank mates swimming about while they are stuck on the bottom or on the glass they feel the need to show everyone up and sometimes go overboard.....literally! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willfishguy Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 Oh yeah, they jump, especially if they are harassed by another fish. I always had to batten down the hatches when I'd get a shipment of common plecos in. Now I always make sure there are absolutely no escape routes for anybody to leave town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Chicklets Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 I had an 18" common Pleco that broke a couple of glass tops during the night on my 108g tank, and a 14" or so Silver Arrowana that did the leap of faith through hole where the filter was sitting, funny thing about the Pleco is when he was little he would go into the top of the Aquaclear filters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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