Another stupid mistake / Check the equipment !

[Miguel]

I keep 4 baby Indo's in a tank filtered by an Eheim 22/50 cannister.. 2 days ago I noticed that one of them was missing. I threw in white worms, food, etc, and only 3 appeared...this morning i just dismantled the whole tank, wood out, stones out, big water change ( since I was at it ), but noting...

I then noticed that the protection at the end of the water sucking tube of the filter was missing.....

I dove to the floor and looked into the filter hose ( the big one of the water input ) and sure enough my baby Dat was there..swimming against the current, inside the hose, for 2 days.

It did not get sucked into the filter because it was too big to pass through the hose valves..

I dismantled the bloody hose, and into the bucket the baby Dat fell,a live and kicking!!! It could have been the end!!

We have to constantly check the equipment.
M

 

[sma]

good thing your dat made it

 

[nishant_datta]

thats one tough dat you got there....

 

[bomber]

Oh yeah, one tough mofojo.

 

[vanimate]

Good catch! Saved a dats life!

Oh and I wouldnt consider it a mistake if you caught it before something bad happened

 

[sQwiReL]

i wonder what that dat was thinking for those 2 days. lol

 

[Miguel]

poor guy!! For 2 days inside a hose, fighting the water flow!!! Guy is tough as nails!!

 

[Red Devil]

Thank goodness you had the time and ambition to pursue looking for it... feed him well...wow lucky Dat guy!!

 

[dragonfish]

Good job. That was like finding my bichir on the filter pad of the w/d.

 

[DiXoN]

nice save, they say survival of the fittest and that little dude must be really fit. LOL