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Tragedy Strikes

Steve Roman

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:eek: Well my happy, contented aquatic male T.dobrigicus escaped out of his tank some time in the last 24 hours. I found him under the desk on which his tank sits, on a rug, in plain sight. He had succumbed to dehydration. :( If I had only checked on him last night if might have been in time. But he chose to escape on the on the one night in weeks when I didn't look in.
I believe he squeezed out the top past a piece of hard filter tube. Just a small bit of play between the the tube and the wire mesh, I would not have thought he could do it. Lesson learned.
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