The Value of taking Inventory each day

[kirkwood]

Was relaxing on the couch at about 8pm yesterday looking at the tank and realized that although I had been staring at the corals throughout the day, I hadn't paid any attention to the fish. So I started to do a roll call, and realized my Clown Wrasse was nowhere to be seen. I only had my actinics on, so I figured maybe he was sleeping, so I grabbed some cyclopeeze to wake up the tank, and he did not appear.

That is when I started to get concerned. I looked on the floor for a dried up jumper, and then grabbed my flashlight and started looking behind the tank. Thankfully I saw nothing, so I really started scratching my head. I looked in the overflow box in the tank and saw nothing. But then I looked in the small chamber on the overflow box that sits outside the tank, and there he was looking up at me. I was shocked and have no idea how he got in there.

I was using a giant spoon to try and coax him up and into my net, but of course he flipped the wrong way and went down the tube to my sump. Panic set in and I immediatley started disassembling the sump to get in to catch him before he was gone for good. Thankfully I managed to get him back into the tank in only about 20 seconds. I'm hoping that when I get home from work today he is swimming around and doing good. We'll see.

So lesson learned, take inventory each and every day. Had I not done it last night, he surely would have been a goner.

 

[justincsumner]

it was your 6th sense that kicked in about him missing!

 

[dme330i]

I thought I had lost a small regal tang. When I sold my tank about 3 months later, we found her in the overflow alive and well.

 

[justincsumner]

I wish i had paid more attention when we upgraded tanks... I lost a trigger because he got himself wedged in a rock and i didnt notice till days after i put it in the new tank.. He is missed..

 

[tangaray]

When you say Clown Wrasse I think of an orange/red Wrasse with white stripes, which is really the juvenile red Coris Wrasse. Since you said you were looking at your corals I thought I would add my.02 and inform you that they are not entirely reef safe. You should have sold it when you had it caught.

 

[kirkwood]

Tangaray;729248 wrote: When you say Clown Wrasse I think of an orange/red Wrasse with white stripes, which is really the juvenile red Coris Wrasse. Since you said you were looking at your corals I thought I would add my.02 and inform you that they are not entirely reef safe. You should have sold it when you had it caught.

I am talking about a Clown Wrasse, as in the Solorensis Wrasse. It is a type of fairy wrasse and very much reef safe.
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I am happy to report he was alive and well when I got home from work yesterday. Hopefully no more wild adventures for him.

 

[mcphock]

They are nice fish. Considering getting a harem of 1 small male and 2-3 females.

 

[cr500_af]

I had a similar thing happen... way back, I thought for sure one of my clowns had died. I looked everywhere (including in the overflow multiple times). After he was missing for about two months, I had a weird urge to check again. I got a brighter Surefire flashlight and found him in the overflow box, doing fine.