Advice on first marine tank

Lone6Wolfpack wrote:

Percula Took a jump to the world of oxygen...

Is this a common occurence? I've never heard of it happening to anyone
but us! A few years back, we had a perc and tomato clown (in addition
to 3 damsels) who had co-existed for 2 years. Suddenly the perc decided
he could not stand the tomato. He rammed him a few times until we could
intervene. Poor tomato went blind. After that, I guess the perc
decided he was the dominant and left him alone and we were able to
remove the separator. When feeding the fish, we would push food close
to the tomato so he could smell it out. Well, one day, the perc decided
I was taking too long and went to flick water at me (he always does this
by coming up to the surface and turning away quickly and flicking his
tail). This time he just shot OUT of the tank! This is a 55 gal tank
on a stand, so the top of the tank is about 4 feet off the ground. I
freaked and it took me a couple minutes to put him back (bad bad owner,
I know, but I was freaked). I put him back in and he was fine. Not
even shocky. He's now 14 years old. I've decided he's too mean to die.
Thing is, when he was a baby, you could feed him by hand and actually
cuddle him in the cup of your palm. He is beautiful though.