A word to the wise....

[bpc75]

My 2 baby clown loaches disappeared a few days ago. One turned up a couple days later and then went mia again. A week or so ago I noticed them hanging around a hole in one of my decorations (smallish hole to let water in so it doesn't float)

I took it out and rinsed the heck out of it in an attempt to flush them out and recovered one body.

Make sure your decorations "fish exploration proof...."

 

[Orion]

Or you can increase the size of the hole to make sure that any wayward fish that find a way in can easily find a way out.

 

[ozziegt]

I hope he wasn't alive before you started rinsing it out!

 

[sbsociety]

Yep. I have that problem with my silvertip shark. I actually have lots of rock caves in my tank but he always hides out inside a hole in one of my tank decos... I see him maybe once a week and each time he's way bigger than before. I keep hoping one day he'll outgrow the hole and start using the caves instead. Now that you commented on that I may take out that deco...

 

[ozziegt]

If he loves your deco so much why not just make the hole bigger and let him live there?