manlyfish;4244248; said:
wow, I hope that didn't really happen . . . total non-MFK move if they did
fish living in filter
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wow, I hope that didn't really happen . . . total non-MFK move if they did
JK47;4244257; said:^ one of the 3 people was me. I started a thread about it with pics a couple years back (link below). Found a whole clutch of BN pleco fry in a HOT mag 250. All but one of them went to the LFS, I still have the one but it is stunted. Coming up on 2 years or so old and still only 2".
>>> http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205115
I bet he's a cute little guy.
...and flushing live fish down the toilet is cruel and unusual punishment imho.
no i didnt install any right away since all but 2 fish was in with that filter originally. I was thinking about doing so but was rushed to finish so I can get another project around the house started. so I didnt install a screen. there will be one going on very soon.
I had a fiddler crab that loved to eat off of the filter. He acually lived in there happily and wouldnt come out. He eventually passed though. He climbed from the filter to the top of the tank and took a jump off the side, poor little guy.
With me it wasn't so much fish that would end up in my filter as much as it used to be feeder shrimp... i remember one time i when i opened my canister filter i discovered at least 20/30 baby shrimp in my filter, it seems one of the females laid her eggs while stuck in there and all the babies remained grazing on all the junk on the sponges...
I don't get how fish can get sucked up and survive in a canister filter (which I'm assuming some of you are using) (HOBs i can understand) because wouldn't the constant water pressure and various filter media eventually kill them if not immediately?
Last week i cleaned out my fluval and found 2 small comets and a guppy swimming around in the canister 
yes matt mine were in a canister. But I think they were stopped in the tube from the catfish that was to big to make the 90 degree bend. Not sure what happened but it did. Now i am going to get a chunk of sponge and put it over the tube as a pre-filter or just cap it with a few holes like a spray bar would look like. Now i have seen feeder guppies in my sump.. not sure how it survived. but my guess it was a baby that fell down through the sump and it would graze of what fell through.
