Hey! Where'd my fish go?

[ocd_mariner]

Came home yesterday and my trigger was mia. I had a blue throat jump, so I figured this niger did as well. I looked and looked and looked and didnt find a body on the carpet, or in the tank.

Im sitting here at the computer, I turn around and notice the return is spitting out air, the sump is super low and the tank is almost overflowing the sides.

Im trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Maybe a snail in the durso. Pull the top of the durso off and the trigger is wedged as tight as he can be inside.

At least he's alive and kicking


Ever found your fish in odd places?

 

[Pickupman66]

Chuck, I had a clown just over the divider on a nano cube. lost a banjai cardinal that way too. even had a kole tang go over the low profile overflow and get wedged inside. killed it getting it out. it was so sad.

 

[crumbletop]

I remember Angela talking about a fish she found in the yard. She had been draining off some water through a tube and sucked the fish right through :lol:

 

[gsusfreak]

do you have any other animals?..its a possibility that it jumped out and then a dog got to it

 

[gflat65]

Had the same thing happen with my lion when I was in Nashville. I came home one day and it was no where to be found. A 10" lion in a 75 gallo doesn't have any places to hide. I looked all over without finidng anything, thinking that if the cats hat bated it around once on the floor, they'd be swollen puff balls. It had somehow gotten into the overflow. The overflow was a DIY trashcan cut to size (pretty much the same size as an AGA overflow). The cross beam cut the access tot he overflow in half, so I have no idea how this guy got in the overflow and not on the floor when it jumped. I scooped him out with wooden spoons (comedy of errors).

 

[cczarnik]

Had a clown goby dissappear for weeks only to show up in my remote fuge. He's happy in there, keeps me company in the garage. Also had a small gramma shoot out of the pump return on my NC24 uninjured. I guess he thought he was a salmon heading upstream?

 

[rcmike]

I had a skunk clown turn up in the back of a HOB overflow. It was in an area that was hard to see unless you stood on top of something and looked in from the top. The amazing part was he had been missing for several months!

I had 3 tanks tied together and had a rainford goby in one of them one day. The next day he was in another tank. The only way he could have gotten there was to go over the overflow and get sucked into the pump and spit out in the other tank.