I just felt my heart break.

That's quite odd. Any way she could have jumped? Even through a small opening? So sad I hope she appears.

 

No possible way, the cover is very... Well, covering. I have a gourami, so I have a good canopy. Plus, I would have found her if she jumped.

 

Actually, looking back behind the tank, I found her against the wall... She must have jumped, though I have no idea how...

 

So sad. I'm sorry for your loss Maybe we can at least figure out where she jumped if you want to post an aerial photo of your tank.

 

Omg I'm so sorry you lost her that way. After all you went through. at least you found her and it didn't stay a mystery.

 

It'll be hard to get an aerial because the top rI'm of my tank is about five feet up, but I'll try. Hang on...

 

Okay. I know for a fact that she couldn't have jumped out of the front, because there are no openings (unless I open the lid, and I never leave it open) and she couldn't have landed against the wall, even if she managed to get out that way. Here is the best picture I could take of the back half.

 

Is that an open space by the filter tube on the right? If so, it's the only one I can see. And, if so, the odds even then seem rather thin, but it's the only place that makes sense. I have read stories about fish finding the one, tiny open space and managing to jump through it but, wow.

Ugh. I was so pulling for her and the phantom, after everything...that she would jump. That's just unfair. Sorry again you lost her

 

It's not an open space... I just don't see how it's possible. She deserved to live, and I can't help feeling guilty now. On the one little bright side, all of my other fish are too large to jump anywhere now. She wasn't happy without a school. I wonder if she was just... Tired of fighting...

 

I know it's hard not to when you care, but don't feel guilty. This was something really extraordinary and you gave her the kind of chance that logic doesn't dictate we give a fish in that bad of shape. I think many fish keepers would have put her in QT even euthanized her at that point. Which would not have been the wrong decision under most circumstances, but still...you have her the chance to meet a very special friend who actually healed her.

I do not, however, get how she jumped either. That part has to be frustrating for you, I am sure.

 

It is. I'm mad, but not at her, because I bet she didn't know any better. Danios do jump, they've hit my glass canopy before.

 

I am so sorry to hear that you lost her in this way. It's crazy how they get it into their heads that it must be better somewhere else and all they have to do this jump over

 

So sad! My condolences!

 

This is really amazing. Whenever one of my neon tetras get sick the others just seems to kick him/her out of the school and let 'em rot..... Maybe your fish are more sympathetic. Anyway I am glad your fish pulled through the bent back at least...

 

It is. I'm mad, but not at her, because I bet she didn't know any better. Danios do jump, they've hit my glass canopy before.

Maybe she wasn't fully recovered and felt the need to avoid spreading anything to anyone else and left the tank the only way she knew.

 

You'd be surprised on how little space a fish needs to slip through. I have a corner cave and the barbs would wiggle against the glass and work their way into the cave between the glass and the cave. Whole reason I put gravel over the top of it. For whatever reason I think she intentionally jumped out.

 

I kind of agree that this sounds a bit like a suicide mission. After everything, that she would just jump because she was happy and healthy and energetic and happened to find a tiny opening, I have to believe the fates are not THAT cruel.

Still, like you, the "how" of it would get me. Looking at your tank, is there any opening, any way, however little sense it makes? If you really can't see a way, then I think we'd have to accept it as one of those things we can't always make sense of. I've had a lot of those in my 28 years, they suck.

 

There would be no possible way for even a danio to get out. She'd have to mutilate herself trying, and even then she wouldn't have been able to fit through anywhere.