Lost Small Clownfish to Tunze Pump

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chiefifd

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Hi...
I woke up this morning to find one of my small Ocellaris Clownfish to a Tunze 6105 circulating pump. The fish looks to have swam into the front of the Tunze grill and was wedged between two of the square grids on the face of the pump. Has anyone else experienced such a loss like this? I can't see another way the fish became lodged in the pump. The front cover was firmly on the pump.

Thanks for any help with this, its really frustrating this is one of two Ocellaris Clowns in my DT and my first fish overall in my tank.
 
I'm new and haven't had anything like this happen to me, but my thought is to run the circ pumps in wave mode so the flow is not constant. I thought about this happening and hope that it doesn't. If the flow is pulsed i would think the fish could get away if it starts to get drawn in.
 
The Clownfish looked healthy, no issues at all. I was running the 6105 pump in the plus mode. I think the fish tried to swim into the surge. I was hoping someone had a preventative measure for this.
 
Healthy fish do not get stuck in water circulation pumps IMPE. I think it's far more likely that your clown cashed in his chips or was sick and the water flow carried him into the pump.
 
I don't think there's a large enough opening at the back or sides of the pump for the fish to get sucked into. Only the cover of the pump has big enough square openings for the fish to fit into. If the fish was not healthy, I would assume it would have a very hard time swimming up-stream and into the square openings. I don't believe there is any suction at the edges of the Tunze 6105 pump front cover to pull a healthy or sick fish into, I could be wrong however on that. A sick or weak fish could easily become stuck to the pumps intake area which comprises most of the pumps exterior area. The pump is in the pulse mode running from 100% down to about 40%.

I did post this question on the Tunze site area also.
 
A bit of other info, the fish had no marks other than where it was lodged in the pumps square front grill. If the fish had been sucked into the pump from the sides or back one would think the fish would have marks from the fish being sucked through the running impeller.
 
Thanks for the thoughts. I have an idea to make the holes in the outlet cover a little harder to get into.
I'm turning on my moonlight on the Tunze 7095, my fish room is pitch black. Maybe that attributed to the loss.
 
chiefifd said:
Only the cover of the pump has big enough square openings for the fish to fit into. If the fish was not healthy, I would assume it would have a very hard time swimming up-stream and into the square openings. I don't believe there is any suction at the edges of the Tunze 6105 pump front cover to pull a healthy or sick fish into, I could be wrong however on that.
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you must not have seen Finding Nemo......and he was not 100% healthy fish. he had a "lucky fin"
 
Ok, I give up.
Thanks for everyone's help.
Moving on, my other Clown is doing great. Will place an order for a replacement Clown soon, QT, then my Clown won't be alone.
 
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