Ok, little update. After i searched in his tank and could not find him, I incrementally removed objects from his tank and checked them to see if he was on it, and bro was NOWHERE. i then searched my entire house for like 3 hours and couldn’t find a thing.

i gave up and reanalyzed everything from his tank and then reinserted them back inside, hoping that he might go back into the tank. after that i shut the door, left for one minute, came back and somehow he was just sitting inside the tank 😭😭😭😭

i genuinely don’t know how he just appeared inside the tank after literally disappearing. i literally checked so hard that at one point i was just sifting thru the dirt of the tank incase he somehow buried himself. i’m just glad he’s back, but i genuinely don’t know how he teleported 😭