Amanda

SO I know it was only a matter of time...and Saturday night was it. My black tiger Oscar threw himself overboard & out of my tank. I wasn't home, but my mom heard him flopping around at 3 am. Luckily, she was sleeping downstairs or else she wouldn't have even heard him.
He seems fine, I added some water conditioner that adds to the slime coat as soon as I got home. He ate, but he has A LOT of scales missing...
stupid fish...always something with this one...

bolivianbaby

Poor thing. I'm glad he's eating and hopefully he'll heal pretty quick.

nater

Good to hear he didn't die. I hope be bounces back quick for you.

Tigerfishy

Oh, hope he's OK. I was doing a water change in one of my tanks a couple of weeks back, and a baby guppy went for a leap of faith. Trying to get a teeny baby back off the floor was interesting...
Glad he ate something, sending wishes for a speedy recovery!!

namehater

not so much what i was thinking...

hope he makes it out alright.

Shawnie

Mine would attempt to do that when it was feeding time....only had one land on the carpet and I learned LOL ...not fun picking up a 12inch fish ....but with some extra stress coat+ and a few extra water change, he will be good as new...but he will try it again if he has the chance ...

Lucy

Oh no Amanda, how scary! Do you have a hood or lid on the tank?
Hope he recovers quickly.

Shawnie

with oscars, hoods wont matter if you arent quicker than the oscar LOL

Tony G.

wow... i hope none of my fish decide to take the leap. Hope he's alright...

Amanda

Yeah....they're strong & quick buggers

Nick Goody

Brute's done it before, and still trys it everytime I feed him. You'd think he'd do it once and think, hang on, that was no fun..............

Shawnie

they have a one track mind...and its called FOOOOOOOOOOD LOL ...they dont ever learn..at least mine never did in the 8 years ...but I learned after the 1 and only time!
ps..I love brute...have I told you that before ?

MissMTS

Oh Amanda how scary! I am so glad that he's okay. I am so afraid of Gulliver doing that. He has started banging his head on the hood when he's hungry and wants food.

brennan2010

Its scary when ur oscars jump out but imagine this. I was feeding my first oscar that was about 4 inches and I leaned over the tank to look at him . . . next thing I know I see a black bullet go flyin by my head followed by several bounces. I got him back in the tank with no damage but every night with the lights off I hear him bouncin off the lid or sides. LOL

Shawnie

sounds scarey too!! but ive never had an oscar bounce off the hood or the sides without a feeding issue going on..

Amanda

My Oscars are relatively calm until they see me approaching the tank with food.
I think I figured out why he leaped out before - because he almost did it right in front of me last night - the pleco often darts to the surface of the tank for a breath & he scares my tiger Oscar all the time! The pleco almost gave the poor thing a heart attack last night!