Shrimp in overflow

[cdangel0]

OK, need some expert assistance this time.

Was poking around the tank tonight, and decided to stand on the kids toy box and see if I could find what was squeaking in the overflow.

well I didn't figure out what was making all the noise, but I did see what appeared to be a shrimp swimming around.

Now the problem is this....it's a 92g corner tank, drilled, I'm short, extremely.

I can't find anything to stand on to get a good look down the overflow section of the tank to see exactly what it is, and have no idea how I could possibly get it out. Does anyone have any ideas??

Here's the funny part- I haven't had a shrimp go missing since maybe september - could he really have survived that long in the overflow?

 

[kaptken]

Ifyou have some 1 inch ID vinyl tubing oe hose, you might be able to syphon it out into a bucket .

 

[Gordonious]

Very possible it could have survived. Most of the ornamental shrimp we keep are very fast to get food food and could catch stuff that has floated back that way.

 

[Gordonious]

Very possible it could have survived. Most of the ornamental shrimp we keep are very fast to get food food and could catch stuff that has floated back that way.

 

[SerranidTerror]

I too agree that the shrimp may have survived that long in there. Long back I remember hearing about some public aquarium opening up their biological filtration after years of not touching it and found gigantic crabs living in their bio media.

Thats why we do this hobby, marine life never ceases to amaze us!

 

[kaptken]

all kinds of marine life can thrive in the strangest dark places, as long as there is continuous flow of aerated water. when we opened up the heat exchangers cooled by fresh sea water at a plant out west,every 18 months, we collected hundreds of pounds of live scallops, mussels,clams, and sponges and things off the end of the tube sheets, blocking the tubes. and even live crabs and fish. all living totally in the dark.

I keep finding some of my fish in the over flow now and then. i think they were there a month or more last time. 3 of them. went right thru the U-tube and hung out in the outer overflow. they were fine. a chromis, a green clown goby and a perc.

 

[cdangel0]

Guess who I found in the new fuge tonight?! :lol:

 

[Shnabbles]

just be glad he didnt find his way into the return pump lol