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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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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