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Fish Jumping out of the tank

faltered
19 years ago

Hi all. I have a small tank with cichlids in it. I bought two new ones this past weekend, put them in the tank with no problem. Then the next day we couldn't find out. Kept looking and looking. Finally discovered that he somehow jumped out of the tank and landed behind it and died.

What I can't figure is how he got out. There is only a small opening where the filter water falls into the tank. He would have had to swim against the current and then jumped OVER the filter.

Is this common? Or just a fluke? I've had some jumpers in the past, but mostly because the lid was left open by mistake.

Oh, he was a convict cichlid, btw.

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