We have two leviathans!

[Victor Martinez]

I knew we had one large clown loach (about 6" long), but I just saw two
of them! How did that happen? I guess only one used to be out at any
given time, so we assumed it was only one. :)

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[Elaine T]

Victor Martinez wrote:
> I knew we had one large clown loach (about 6" long), but I just saw two
> of them! How did that happen? I guess only one used to be out at any
> given time, so we assumed it was only one. :)
>
ROFL! I've never had a tank big enough to lose a 6" fish.

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[Victor Martinez]

Elaine T wrote:
> ROFL! I've never had a tank big enough to lose a 6" fish.

Well, it's 110 gallons, heavily planted with lots of hidey holes for the
loaches. :) There's a bristlenose male there that I only see once a
month or so.


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[Gill Passman]

Elaine T wrote:
> Victor Martinez wrote:
>
>> I knew we had one large clown loach (about 6" long), but I just saw
>> two of them! How did that happen? I guess only one used to be out at
>> any given time, so we assumed it was only one. :)
>>
> ROFL! I've never had a tank big enough to lose a 6" fish.
>

Size isn't all....I frequently lose fish in the smaller tanks - I
couldn't find Bob the betta for a while in his 5 gall and then he turned
up again about an hour later (I'd been through all sorts of panic even
about to interrogate the cat :-) )....I frequently lose track of the
Pandas in the 7.5 gall Hex tank until dinner time :-) And the Plecs are
a law unto themselves for vanishing acts....

One of my current troupe of Clowns hides a lot of the time but then
suddenly after I've panicked for a few hours turns up.

I did find this post curious and was wondering if the OP remembered
buying the CL in the first place or whether it was a smaller one that
had kept hidden until it grew up..

Nice story though :-)

Gill

[Elaine T]

Gill Passman wrote:
> Elaine T wrote:
>
>> Victor Martinez wrote:
>>
>>> I knew we had one large clown loach (about 6" long), but I just saw
>>> two of them! How did that happen? I guess only one used to be out at
>>> any given time, so we assumed it was only one. :)
>>>
>> ROFL! I've never had a tank big enough to lose a 6" fish.
>>
>
> Size isn't all....I frequently lose fish in the smaller tanks - I
> couldn't find Bob the betta for a while in his 5 gall and then he turned
> up again about an hour later (I'd been through all sorts of panic even
> about to interrogate the cat :-) )....I frequently lose track of the
> Pandas in the 7.5 gall Hex tank until dinner time :-) And the Plecs are
> a law unto themselves for vanishing acts....
>
> One of my current troupe of Clowns hides a lot of the time but then
> suddenly after I've panicked for a few hours turns up.
>
> I did find this post curious and was wondering if the OP remembered
> buying the CL in the first place or whether it was a smaller one that
> had kept hidden until it grew up..
>
> Nice story though :-)
>
> Gill

Heh. I forgot about losing an oto in my 10 gallon tank this summer. I
got a bad batch of otos that gradually died off over a few weeks. I
thought I had lost all of them, even though I never found one of the
corpses. After a month or so, I bought three more. The next morning I
counted noses and to my surprise, there were four out in plain view
nibbling algae in the filter outflow.

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[Gill Passman]

Elaine T wrote:
> Gill Passman wrote:
>
>> Elaine T wrote:
>>
>>> Victor Martinez wrote:
>>>
>>>> I knew we had one large clown loach (about 6" long), but I just saw
>>>> two of them! How did that happen? I guess only one used to be out at
>>>> any given time, so we assumed it was only one. :)
>>>>
>>> ROFL! I've never had a tank big enough to lose a 6" fish.
>>>
>>
>> Size isn't all....I frequently lose fish in the smaller tanks - I
>> couldn't find Bob the betta for a while in his 5 gall and then he
>> turned up again about an hour later (I'd been through all sorts of
>> panic even about to interrogate the cat :-) )....I frequently lose
>> track of the Pandas in the 7.5 gall Hex tank until dinner time :-) And
>> the Plecs are a law unto themselves for vanishing acts....
>>
>> One of my current troupe of Clowns hides a lot of the time but then
>> suddenly after I've panicked for a few hours turns up.
>>
>> I did find this post curious and was wondering if the OP remembered
>> buying the CL in the first place or whether it was a smaller one that
>> had kept hidden until it grew up..
>>
>> Nice story though :-)
>>
>> Gill
>
>
> Heh. I forgot about losing an oto in my 10 gallon tank this summer. I
> got a bad batch of otos that gradually died off over a few weeks. I
> thought I had lost all of them, even though I never found one of the
> corpses. After a month or so, I bought three more. The next morning I
> counted noses and to my surprise, there were four out in plain view
> nibbling algae in the filter outflow.
>
LOL - I have absolutely know idea how many otos are living in the 4 foot
Community Tank - I think over time I put in seven...the most I've
counted a few weeks ago was six when I put in an algae ridden plant from
the Malawi tank to see if they would clean it up - job done in 2 hours
:-). For a few weeks I've just been seeing two but today four of them
turned up...right now only one is on view....

I guess in a 110gall tank losing sight of fish is really easy :-)

Gill