Lucky YOYO

[Hootchieman]

Well, the other day I went upstairs only to find both of my cats sitting around my 10 gallon tank. I went over to investigate only to find one of my 3" YoYo loaches on the floor not moving. I went to touch it to see if it was still alive and it promply jabbed me in the finger with its eye spine, so I picked it up and plunked it back into the tank. After some heavy breathing and shedding a layer of cat hair covered slime, the loach settled down as if nothing happened. That was three days ago and it is still doing fine. I don't know how long it was out of the tank and I can only imagine that the cats must have got a good jab or two from the little guy otherwise it would have become a quick meal. I am still not sure how it got out but I have added a piece of plastic between the canopy and the front of the Aquaclear filter. I hope this does the trick. That is one lucky loach. :D

[GEV83]

I had a lucky but stupid buttikoferi. Before I new better I did 100% water changes well I was doing that walking back and forth through the hall well I stopped for some reason and I looked down and there was the buttikoferi. It had traveled about a good 4-5feet jumping and jurking from where the alomst completely covered bucket was. Well I dont know how long it had been out but I must have walked by it a good five times and it just happened not to step where he was. I put him back in the bucket he was covered in hair from my sis and mom well he stayed at the bottom when I went to empty more of the tank he jumped back out i put him back in he tried to get back out yet again so I left no opening and he finally stopped. I eventually took it back to the LFS I only had it in a 30 and it stopped growing so I took it back and got 2 oscars one died from some disease the other died during a move it got sick from the stress and eventaully died.

[Spunky]

My yoyos are quite lucky too!

Two of them survived getting stuck in a rock and me pulling them out with tweezers.

One of my guys survived a 2.5 hour move from my home to school in a corner filter. I do not know how much water and moisture was in the filter, but even ignoring that fact, the filter was in a bag that we just tossed around during the move.

The latest incident was that while taking out a piece of driftwood, a loach happened to be in a crevice and fell onto the top of the tank. I grabbed it then remembered the sharp spine and grabbed something else to get it. It promptly flopped on the floor and its spine got stuck in the carpet. I got him free and put him back in the tank. He hid for a bit then seemed just fine.

I am learning my lesson to pay attention to where the fish are at and their habitat needs (no more small holed rocks!) Luckily it has not been expensive lessons. :)

Spunky