General Care Discussion :: Escape!!!!

[Blue Flamingo]

So I go to turn on GIR and Zims lights this morning and notice I can’t seem to find GIR. So I look in all of the plants in the tank and in their cup. I can’t find him anywhere. Oh crap... @*%#...... !@##&%*, and a few other choice words later I finally find him in my closest underneath my little storage dresser thing. So I warm him up a little in my hands and then put him back in the tank with Zim.. He seems to be alright swimming around fine and even begging already... So i guess my water level was just a tad bit too high and I will be taking out a couple pitchers. Anyways that was my morning so far.... How’s everybody else’s morning going

[Callie]

Glad you found him!
Must have been scary - I'm sure I'd of had a heart attack!

Hope he didn't take too big of a fall!

[blackforce247]

ya that almost happened to me too!. i had my turtle's latch open and i could see its hind legs standing. the signs wore its shell banging the glass and when i looked i saw its front paws on the rim of the tank i picked it up and put it back

[Nettle]

Wow that's scary!! I love their names! ^_^ I need more piggies!

[BullDog]

xD Bad Gir!!!

I've had a couple moments like that with Frankie recently. She's usually either on her underwater platform, or on her dock. A few times I've peeked in the room, and I don't see her in either place! Then I saw her in the water on the other side of the tank. Scared me, but I don't think Frankie is too lazy to form a master escape plan

[joeybsmooth]

How do they get out?

[Take-One]

If you have a open top a high dock and water then they will escape. That must have been scary

[Rottie_mom]

Good that you found him.

I had that scare with Pebbles recently. I had change the water and left it too high and yes it is open top. I get back from work and notice immediatedly that she isnt in there. Look behind tank and she is wedged between the wall and the stand. It actually stopped her from landing on the tile.

Sooo put her back in (after checking her over) got the rack from the oven (door is busted so can't use it anyway, ex husband long story) now the rack is on top of tank with the light fixtures holding it down and a couple of heavy books voila LOL.