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Why do my fish keep jumping out of my fish tank2007-11-24 23:43:50

Why do my fish keep jumping out of my fish tank? There is a little spot by the filter that is supposed to be there, and altough they are different fish, (community/semi-aggresive), I've never seen this before. This sounds silly, but I am serious, please help!

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I had the same problem some time ago. I would find a fish on the kitchen floor in the mornings for 3 days. I realized though that there was an aggressive fish in the tank that chased them terribly. Somewhere in the chase they would jump to escape injury from the bully and if it was under the open spot they were out of the tank and on the floor. I lost 7 fish like this. I only have Cichlids in the tank now and I haven't lost a fish again. The other 7 fish were non aggressive fish (not cichlids).

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The water temp is wrong.

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When was the last time you cleaned the tank?

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get a top for you're tank

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It sounds like they are just trying to show off to one another. I've never heard of anything like that. Normally people don't put aggressive fish in a small environment like that and maybe they are trying to show to others in the tank who's the boss. lolz.

If that's not it, try to check the temperature and clean out the tank, maybe they are trying to signal you.

Good luck.

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they are trying to get away from you. perhaps you need a shower.

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That is just what happened to my fish! I had a small spot in the lid just like that, I cut up an old pair of panyhose and taped it over the hole.

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You may have one fish in there that is an agressive chaser. If so the others are fleeing him because the tank is too small to get totally away from him. All fish will jump to get away from a heated chase. The opening is probably lighter or darker than the rest of the cover when viewed from below the water and they go for it.