Wrasse in sump overflow seciton

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andywe

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Ok,

This has got to be th dumbest fish. My sixline wrasse has gottem himself not only into the overflow, but into the overflow section of my sump which has no access. It's a Megaflow sump. Anyone have any magic tricks to capture him?

I have scared him to the top but he refuses to go over the falls into the prefilter so I can rescue him.

Thanks in advance.
 
Now that's funny!!! Sorry man It just seemed funny to me. I had one missing and found it in my overflow, well after I got him out he died!! Was in there so long he was curved and couldn't get straight. You could take the sump off and dump it out ? Good luck.
 
one of my clowns use to find his way over into the return pump chamber on my biocube 8....which is juuuuust barely big enough to get my hand in, but not to make a cup. so i had to get my hand in & look into the water level windo till i saw him in my hand & then slowly raise it & him out....which never worked the 1st 10 or so times LOL
 
I'm not familiar with a megaflow sump, but I've had my leopard wrasse jump into my megaflow overflow. I pulled the plumbing and let it drain, then scooped him out. I put a net under the drain hole in case it got sucked in. With a sump, you may have to pull the sump out and drain it to get to the wrasse. HTH
 
Well, I have to drain the tank to get the sump out. It only fits in through the top of the stand. Hmm....I will think of something I hope. Hate to lose him down there.
 
This probably won't work, but could you get a length of tubing with a large enough ID to try to suck him out of the sump? What if you drained the sump and removed the sponge between compartments (I'm assuming he's on the other side of the sponge)? That might bring it closer to the weir, allowing some manueverability. I don't know how tight the sumps are, though. If the sump were not running, and the spnger were removed, what are the chances that it might swim into an accessible area of the sump?
 
really small hook and line? jK, I had a goby that did the same thing to me into a wet/dry so he didn't last til I found him... hope you're able to get him out
 
My Solar wrasse ends up in my overflow every week seems like:rolleyes:

Just pull the overflow like Gary mentioned and let him go down the pipe into the sump (if he will fit through the pipe you have). Them scoop him out of the sump with a net. That works for me anyway. Mine usually ends up getting fed for a few days in the overflow when I can't get around to catching him. You can also block the top of the overflow with eggcrate. I don't do that because I'm afraid of him getting trapped on top, lots of people do with good success though.

Chris
 
If it's like my sump, the overflow chamber is maybe 2 inches wide, and has a two inch slot at the top, that's the only way to get him out, right?

What about taking a peice of something solid (acyrlic?) that is almost as wide as the width and height of the chamber, tilting and twisting it to get it into the chamber and then trapping the fish into half of the chamber. You should then be able to sweep the acrylic into the corner at an angle, finally lifting the bottom of it up, forcing the fish out through the overflow. Kind of like a big windshield wiper. If you are careful, it should be rather painless for him.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14554397#post14554397 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gflat65
Is this it? If so, why would they seal an area that you need to clean from time to time? I'd cut the top off of the section anyway, so I'd have access to it. You could use a dremel for that. Otherwise, you may just have a soon dead wrasse polluting your system (and all of your water passes through that area...). I haven't seen one made like this before.

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-85300140756196_2040_15733151
Click to expand...

That is a smaller version, but yes. I bought a small shrimp net today and will try and nab him with it. I can force him up, and as long as I can get the net under him I will sweep him onto the prefilter pad.
 
Success!!! I go him out, although it wasn't easy. Thanks to all who chimed in with ideas. Ultimately, I got him up to the top and wiggled the downtube. then I started the pump back up and wiggled more, and got an air busrt to push him over the falls onto the prefilter pad. Not elegant, but hell, he's alive and not in the sump anymore.

I moved him to my nano, and he should do well in there as long as my yellow tail damsels don;t kill him.
 
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