bsaastad
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Although what that ride was, I'm not sure ... Here's the backstory:
I picked up a diamond goby (from YourReef -- plug, plug
) a while back. The day after I added him to the display I was due for a tank cleaning/water change. Somewhere during the process he ended up in the overflow, which has a screen that extends 4" above the surface to prevent just this type of event from happening.
Of course, the overflow is deep and congested with pipes (closed loop drain, open loop returns, stockman standpipe, pvc conduit for electrical -- you get the idea.) I had no idea how I was going to get this skittish little goby out w/o totally traumatizing him, so I thought I'd just let him hang out and maybe he'd jump back at some point. The overflow has sort of morphed into a kind of refugium with ample supplies of crustaceans so I thought "what's the harm?"
Two days later he was gone. Spent the next two weeks examining the overflow, peering into the main tank rock-work at all hours of the day and night -- no sign.
Three days ago I saw him poke his head out of the rock work during feeding time and I've had no problem locating him since. Oh, and he's missing an eye, but other than that seems none the worse for wear.
There are four ways to get from the overflow back to main tank:
1) Jumping back over the screen
2) Down the stockman pipe, into the sump, pumped back through the Mag7 return. Never saw him in the sump, and although I've heard of fish surviving the impeller, I'm not convinced he could fit through the plastic strainer on the pump intake.
3) Via the closed loop, but he would have to pass both through an Iwaki pump (actually the impeller looks pretty passable for a small creature) and through a chiller and my guess is that the passages through the cooling elements are pretty darned narrow, so probably not likely. Plus I think his skull is larger than the 1/4" holes in the spray bar on the return.
4) I have a manifold to create flow in the main tank which uses a Rio pump (I know, I know ...) hanging in the top of the overflow for its source.
Of course there's no way to know, but what are your votes for the most likely return path? Given the missing eye, I'm squeamishly leaning toward #4, but I don't know. And two weeks MIA? Must have been hiding somewhere recovering.
Oh, yeah, there's nothing even the remotest bit agressive in the tank (yellow tang, 2 pjs, chalk bass, randall's goby, pep shrimp/cleaner shrimp), so I don't believe any body bit his eye. No inidications of any kind of a mantis shrimp.
I picked up a diamond goby (from YourReef -- plug, plug
) a while back. The day after I added him to the display I was due for a tank cleaning/water change. Somewhere during the process he ended up in the overflow, which has a screen that extends 4" above the surface to prevent just this type of event from happening.Of course, the overflow is deep and congested with pipes (closed loop drain, open loop returns, stockman standpipe, pvc conduit for electrical -- you get the idea.) I had no idea how I was going to get this skittish little goby out w/o totally traumatizing him, so I thought I'd just let him hang out and maybe he'd jump back at some point. The overflow has sort of morphed into a kind of refugium with ample supplies of crustaceans so I thought "what's the harm?"
Two days later he was gone. Spent the next two weeks examining the overflow, peering into the main tank rock-work at all hours of the day and night -- no sign.
Three days ago I saw him poke his head out of the rock work during feeding time and I've had no problem locating him since. Oh, and he's missing an eye, but other than that seems none the worse for wear.
There are four ways to get from the overflow back to main tank:
1) Jumping back over the screen
2) Down the stockman pipe, into the sump, pumped back through the Mag7 return. Never saw him in the sump, and although I've heard of fish surviving the impeller, I'm not convinced he could fit through the plastic strainer on the pump intake.
3) Via the closed loop, but he would have to pass both through an Iwaki pump (actually the impeller looks pretty passable for a small creature) and through a chiller and my guess is that the passages through the cooling elements are pretty darned narrow, so probably not likely. Plus I think his skull is larger than the 1/4" holes in the spray bar on the return.
4) I have a manifold to create flow in the main tank which uses a Rio pump (I know, I know ...) hanging in the top of the overflow for its source.
Of course there's no way to know, but what are your votes for the most likely return path? Given the missing eye, I'm squeamishly leaning toward #4, but I don't know. And two weeks MIA? Must have been hiding somewhere recovering.
Oh, yeah, there's nothing even the remotest bit agressive in the tank (yellow tang, 2 pjs, chalk bass, randall's goby, pep shrimp/cleaner shrimp), so I don't believe any body bit his eye. No inidications of any kind of a mantis shrimp.
heheh whata trip!Litterally!
