MarkusII
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Hello,
here comes the continuation of the story of the Amhprion occelaris called "Nemo".....
The peregrination II:
Nemo meanwhile is a grown up and lives together with his wife - however not in the sea but in a 660g tank; and very territorial in the backmost upper corner. All available anemones are not taken by him and his wife as well as a dominant Amphiprion frenatus, appropriately defending his anemones, making sure that the two do not have a housing...
Nevertheless he regularly has a clutch together with his wife (and once he even had one with the frenatus).
But suddenly, one day he cannot be found anymore.
Also intense searching, stretched over some days, apparently does not seem to emerge the fish again.
It looks like he has sadly paid his debt to nature and is no longer "inter vivos".
I arrive to clean up the tank and get the sad message from the owner of the tank, that the fish is missing since days.
But when looking into the tank we see that the little guy - together with his wife - is swimming in peace at his place.
Someone else from the house can explain and tells us an almost unbelievable story: the day before stuff from the barkeepers found Nemo - by chance - in the fishroom in the last chamber of the second sump, catched him and put him back in the tank....
The little one must have jumped somehow into the overflow from where he was flushed through the plumbing into the filtersock of sump number 1, escaped from there, must have found the exit of this sump to one of the two tubes to sump number 2 and there he swam below and above the bulkheads and even passed by a "cascade-filter" to his find spot.
This so happened the last days at the tank of the hotel Alpenrose which I take care of......
and here are the relevant pictures:
"Nemo" and his wife in their corner of the tank; in the upper left corner you can see the overflow
a picture of the overflow
the way of the plumbing under the floor from the tank to the fish room
in the fishroom the path through the plumbing into the filtersock of sump number 1
at a high water level in the filtersock he must have escaped from it and found one of the two exits of sump number 1
before he passed under a bulkhead, crossing the ne´xt one (whereas there are only narrow spaces on each side of a "cascade-filter" to pass by) and again under another bulkhead to the last chamber, where he luckily was found, after most probably some days had passed, by chance by the barkeeper (who you can imagine regularly searches the sump if eventually there is a fish
)
Odyssey with happy end
and so "Nemo", who never is doing big distance trips in the tank, swimms again together with his wife in his corner....
best regards
Markus
here comes the continuation of the story of the Amhprion occelaris called "Nemo".....
The peregrination II:
Nemo meanwhile is a grown up and lives together with his wife - however not in the sea but in a 660g tank; and very territorial in the backmost upper corner. All available anemones are not taken by him and his wife as well as a dominant Amphiprion frenatus, appropriately defending his anemones, making sure that the two do not have a housing...
Nevertheless he regularly has a clutch together with his wife (and once he even had one with the frenatus).
But suddenly, one day he cannot be found anymore.
Also intense searching, stretched over some days, apparently does not seem to emerge the fish again.
It looks like he has sadly paid his debt to nature and is no longer "inter vivos".
I arrive to clean up the tank and get the sad message from the owner of the tank, that the fish is missing since days.
But when looking into the tank we see that the little guy - together with his wife - is swimming in peace at his place.
Someone else from the house can explain and tells us an almost unbelievable story: the day before stuff from the barkeepers found Nemo - by chance - in the fishroom in the last chamber of the second sump, catched him and put him back in the tank....
The little one must have jumped somehow into the overflow from where he was flushed through the plumbing into the filtersock of sump number 1, escaped from there, must have found the exit of this sump to one of the two tubes to sump number 2 and there he swam below and above the bulkheads and even passed by a "cascade-filter" to his find spot.
This so happened the last days at the tank of the hotel Alpenrose which I take care of......
and here are the relevant pictures:
"Nemo" and his wife in their corner of the tank; in the upper left corner you can see the overflow
a picture of the overflow
the way of the plumbing under the floor from the tank to the fish room
in the fishroom the path through the plumbing into the filtersock of sump number 1
at a high water level in the filtersock he must have escaped from it and found one of the two exits of sump number 1
before he passed under a bulkhead, crossing the ne´xt one (whereas there are only narrow spaces on each side of a "cascade-filter" to pass by) and again under another bulkhead to the last chamber, where he luckily was found, after most probably some days had passed, by chance by the barkeeper (who you can imagine regularly searches the sump if eventually there is a fish
)Odyssey with happy end
and so "Nemo", who never is doing big distance trips in the tank, swimms again together with his wife in his corner....
best regards
Markus
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