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I was cleaning my tank the other day and pulled out my root with the anubis to trim a bit, rinsed it off in a bucket of tank water and placed on the table till I was ready to put back in the tank. I was doing some other things and noticed something small jumping around on the table. It was a ghost shrimp that I bought about 2 months ago:eek: I thought that thing was dead or eaten long... ago! kind of hard to find in a planted tank:p guess the anibis keeps him well hiden from any fishes that may see him as a potential snack! Makes me wonder if theres anything else in my tank that I may have thought was eaten, but is just good at staying hidden!
Arctic_Fishery
12-17-2002, 9:22 AM
that would have scared the living shlot out of me......
Pootspete
12-17-2002, 9:24 AM
Sometimes surprises are really good!:)
LOL punch! I've had the same experience with Amano shrimp on rocks I've pulled out of my tank...good fun :)
i've had the same thing happen with lace rock and convict fry, it seems like no matter how close you look at it there's still little nooks and crannies where things can hide.
Clownloach458
12-17-2002, 10:56 AM
Whoa! thats kinda amazing
OrionGirl
12-17-2002, 11:03 AM
I remember doing water changes on a 15 gallon high with a large peice of driftwood. We'd pull all the decorations out and set them on a pan while doing a full vaccum of the substrate. About 5 minutes later, you'd here a 'thunk' as the raphael cat finally fell out of the little crack he'd hidden in. We'd pick him up and dump him back in the tank. Think he finally died at about 7 years old.
mwood322
12-17-2002, 11:21 AM
I had to break apart a piece of driftwood to convince a botia histronica loach that I wanted to move him to another tank, and he couldn't take his hiding place with him.
--Mia
I'll tell you what, It did scare me! I know when I swiched tanks I had to take a collender and sift throught the gravel to make sure I got all the kollie loaches! I'm thankful I didn't suck him down the drain! Maybe I'll get some more now I know they can survive!
NJ Devils Fan
12-17-2002, 5:10 PM
Thats pretty funny, I know I would have been a little scared at first.
undertow
12-17-2002, 8:41 PM
Friggin cardiac arrest man! LOL! I used
to keep crayfish in a couple of my tanks. Well one night I went to use the bathroom and noticed one sitting in the sink! Scared the
Ba-jeezus outta me. And this was a pregnant one, she was about 7"!(looked like a lobster!!):D The baby crayfish made an excellent snack for my O's and GT....
Azimiut
12-17-2002, 10:30 PM
I had a horrid one. walked in my room to find my Morray on the floor, under my foot. blah.... GOO!:eek: :eek: :eek:
Skippy
12-17-2002, 11:35 PM
I have had that type of surprise before,
The culprits in my case were Amanno shrimp and Khuli Loaches.
pinballqueen
12-18-2002, 8:55 AM
I had a fish do that in a sand-substrate tank, but I don;t remember now what kind of fish it was, a loach, I think....I thought he was fish food months before, but when I broke down the tank to move, there he was! Scared the snot out of me....
waterspirit
12-19-2002, 12:08 PM
A surprise story for you...
I had a caecilan worm in a 29 gallon along with an African Clawed Frog and a few fish. Well, the frog, even though he was much smaller, tried to eat the caecilan more than once. I caught him one time with the poor thing's head in his mouth. Well, I moved the frog to another tank, but not in time. The caecilan decided it was time to look for greener pastures and crawled out of the tank. We found him mummified under the couch when we moved a couple of years later. I almost had a heart attack! :D