disapearing royal gramma

my royal gramma disapeared from one day to another...have had it for about 4 months and it was eating well..even the day b-4 it disapeared it was eating very well!..i was wondering if these fish are jumpers?anybody have a similiar story??really miss that lil guy ;./

 

I've went through 2 Grammas, until I said "enough". They're very elusive, as mine spent almost the entire day hiding in rock-work. They would only come out to eat (like pigs!) then go back to hiding. A beautiful fish...but a jumper too. I have egg-crate on top of my tank to provide ample gas exchange between the water surface and the room atmosphere...yeah, little buggers jumped out both times! I like to keep the tops of my tanks as open as possible and I simply cannot keep Grammas because of it.

 

By the way - the milk carton is hilarious!!!

 

You should check around your tank...i found a little french fried fire fish...

 

Do you have an overflow box for your tank? I kid you not, when I used to have a wet dry filter, my royal gramma would get into the overflow box, swim up the syphon tube, and hang out in there. It could actually go back and forth between the tank and the overflow at will. Crazy.

 

APC..... I've had that happen as well. We thought the fish was gone.... couple days later, he'd be back. Then he'd dissapear again. We'd tear the tank apart looking for him.. Then one day we found him in the over flow box.

 

I found a gramma I had pronounced dead for a couple weeks while rearranging some live rock.

 

i check the overflow frequently because my fiji chromis tend to get sucked in there since they chill right next to it at lights out! ive also checked the area around the tank and still no gramma!its already been more than 3 days and nothing not even to feed..should i consider it dead???:-/

 

sounds like what happened to me and the watchman goby I just got. I DID concider him dead, but he is hiding after all. Hope you find it-alive!

 

I've had nothing but good luck with mine. Its out all the time and my tank is open in the back. I've always thought that RG's were not jumpers. I'm probably just lucky that mine hasnt jumped yet.