:eek2: I've had sump problems this evening---adjusting to the notion that, yes, when you lift out a cup of water for mixing in the sump the autotopoff unit does what you bought it to do---that's another post---
But I found a bristleworm, a big fat one, poised on the shield of the return pump. I thought, well, maybe it'll get down. I don't want to have to unplug the autotopoff and turn off the pump and all that mess...
Then I thought of my fish eating diced bristleworm upstairs when it finally fell in and decided to rescue it. Off go all the electronics. I crawl under the stand with the stupid turkey baster and manage to rescue the stupid worm from the stupid pump. I return it to the display tank. I turn on the lights.
The worm immediately takes off toward the rocks.
The peppermint shrimp (I have 2 big ones) take out after the worm, nab him and drag him off to a fate only to be imagined.
No good deed goes unpunished, or at least---it benefits the shrimp, if not the worm.
But I found a bristleworm, a big fat one, poised on the shield of the return pump. I thought, well, maybe it'll get down. I don't want to have to unplug the autotopoff and turn off the pump and all that mess...
Then I thought of my fish eating diced bristleworm upstairs when it finally fell in and decided to rescue it. Off go all the electronics. I crawl under the stand with the stupid turkey baster and manage to rescue the stupid worm from the stupid pump. I return it to the display tank. I turn on the lights.
The worm immediately takes off toward the rocks.
The peppermint shrimp (I have 2 big ones) take out after the worm, nab him and drag him off to a fate only to be imagined.
No good deed goes unpunished, or at least---it benefits the shrimp, if not the worm.
