He landed on my HEAD!

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So I dipped my hand into the tank to adjust a frag plug, and my Firefish Goby freaked out, jumped and landed on my head! Holy man I was totally surprised!! I quickly picked him up off the floor and got him back into the tank (he's been hiding for the last 24 hours).

Anyone else ever have that happen??
 
I had a fish jump out today and found it dried out. I have an artfully acrylic lid too so its odd... a cleaner wrasse.
 
Yep! When I was going to feed the tank, the fairy wrasse got too excited that it jumped out and hit my face haha. That definitely scared me since it never jumped out before. Good thing I always use a lid.

Another thing happened with a clown. I was rearranging stuff in the tank and the clownfish just decided to slap me in the face and it went back in the tank without my help! Although, I fell down lol. Sigh... sometimes I really hate clownfish

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Yes, clowns eager for food. They ate as soon as put the 2 back in tank
 
When I was reaquascaping a month ago my orange spot goby rocketed past me onto the floor. He's fine, good little sand sifter
 
In my reef tanks, no. In my freshwater? Yes. Happened back when my brother had a Tire Track Eel in the freshwater tank with my catfish, black ghost knifefish, and silver dollars.

I was adding some feeder ghost shrimp to the tank for the eel, knifefish, and catfish to spoil them. When the eel saw that I had a bag full of ghost shrimp, he got excited and tried to go for them when I was still trying to scoop them out of the bag with a net. Of course, he flew out and collided with my chin. I had to pick him up and put his slimy eel booty back in the tank. He lived for another 3 or 4 years until a power outage while we were out of town for a week resulted in everything that wasn't a catfish or silver dollar dying.

Lately, closest I have had to something like this happening, is my last remaining silver dollar (a hand sized, 17 year old fish). Half the time after I feed the tank, he either brushes up against the heater, or one of the black neon tetras startles him or presumably tries to take his food, so he does a mad dash to th e other side of the tank, and often times comes out of the water, and hits the lid with enough force to cause it to audibly shake, which of course also results water splashing out and on my wall and floor when he does it by the HOB filter.

Good times.
 
Ya wrasses like to freak out for no real reason sometimes , I've had to pick up a couple off the floor while doing maintenance. Never got hit in the head though . However when fishing in Florida once I did almost catch like a 10 inch flying fish to the forehead but i got out of the way last second .
 

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