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    So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accidentally

    I had taken the filter out two days ago to change out the polisher cartridge for the standard duty cartridge, I guess while bumbling around with the lines I knocked loose the "guard" over the suction line.

    I didn't notice until this morning when I was digging around under the stand for some stuff and saw this...




    Two very unhappy (but very alive and swimming wildly) glo-fish


    Yeah... I kinda freaked, however the rescue effort was successful and the two unfortunate adventurers are safe again.

    let this be a lesson to you all, Dont lose the suck-guard on your line :P
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  • #2
    Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

    That's gotta suck!

    I siphoned a few fish in my days......don't end as nice though.
    700g Mini-Monster tank

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    • #3
      Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

      I have often had to fish my glows out of the filter on my sea-clear tank.  They seem to do fine afterwards though.  Those little buggers are sure hard to catch, even in that confined space!
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      • #4
        Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

        That is absolutely excellent.  Glad to hear they made it out okay.  

        I once saved a friend's rosy barb from the center of an eheim II pro, and only because he was all but stopping the flow in the filter.  According to him, the barb had been missing for weeks....

        All I have to say about that is there must have been some tasty snacks siphoned his way if the rescue took that long!

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        • #5
          Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

          Wow, glad they made it!

          We had a sump/wet/dry at a store I worked at that had a colony of guppies, multiplying exponentially. It was impossible to get them out, because we could never get all of them. So we just left them in there. Apparently an employee had dumped a netful of feeder guppies in there for the cichlids, and a few got sucked up. What are you gonna do?  
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          • #6
            Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

            Oooooh...

            I have had the same problem! I have some shrimp in my Frontosa tank and they would actually make their way to the sump and in my Tropheus tank I had some fry get into the overflow pre-filter section and the current in there is like a tsunami!
            700g Mini-Monster tank

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            • #7
              Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

              You might also want to be careful when adding or removing fish from a transport bag.   (never put the transport water in your tank) Empty the bag into a net above a bucket of water - not above the toilet or the gargage disposal - because EDIT hapens and you dont want to stick your hand in there to rescue the fish.  
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              • #8
                Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

                Originally posted by PhishPhreek";p="
                You might also want to be careful when adding or removing fish from a transport bag.   (never put the transport water in your tank) Empty the bag into a net above a bucket of water - not above the toilet or the gargage disposal - because $#it hapens and you dont want to stick your hand in there to rescue the fish.  
                hemm you should tell us the story...lol

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                • #9
                  Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

                  I had about 10 babies get sucked into a Whisper 20 one time.  I thought the mother had eaten them and when I was changing the filter pad....there they were swimming around the bottom of the filter.

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                  • #10
                    Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

                    Rescued one from the garbage disposal once too in the early days....just read the rest of PhishPhreek's post....LOL.

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                    • #11
                      Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

                      I almost had an accident with the garbage disposal just the other day when I got my tank..

                      The water the fish came in I was not sure about and therefore I wanted 90% of it not to go into the new tank where it could be trouble.

                      Poured out the water and the Oscar didnt like the idea of living on low amount of water decided as we started close the bag up to jump out and land in the sink.. what a mess... got him fished up and now he is happy in the tank...  The second Oscar I was sure we had learned the lesson.. nope same scenario... jumped right into the sink again...  well this time I had a net handy and 10 seconds later he was in the tank..  the two of them have become quite a pair...  rubbing up against each other and I am thinking they are falling "in Love" with each other..   I have never had these problems before and two in two days came along.. then again I have not had a tank in 22 yrs..  Things change as you get older...

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                      • #12
                        Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

                        Do you pour the water that your fish come in when you buy them into your tanks?

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                        • #13
                          Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

                          I don't - I guess it doesn't really matter if you're quarantining them anyway, but especially if you dont quarantine, (i'm occasionally guilty) it's just playing with fire to add the water from the bag.  There could be lots of creepy crawlies or bad parameters in the water that might not necessarily be in/on the fish.

                          I am also to understand that you are not supposed to add new tank water to the bag either, as it can cause an ammonia spike and kill your new fish (never tried it though)

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                          • #14
                            Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

                            Adding water from an outside tank is not good practice.
                            700g Mini-Monster tank

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                            • #15
                              Re: So uhm... heh.. I kidna sucked a couple fish up accident

                              Nothing like some really CLEAN LFS water added to your system....LOL.

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