Has anyone ever had a fish get sucked up by the filter?

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I was doing a water change on my 5 gallon planted tank, then after I plugged back in the filter it didn't turn on. I replaced the filter with a spare hob filter (used same media), but then the hob spare sucked up one of my zebra danios, it took me a while to notice too. :irked:

When I unplugged the filter, the zebra danio came out, the fins were all torn and it looked slow and it was convulsing, long story short my other filter started working again and that was that, gonna see tomorrow if the zebra danio gets better. :cry:


So anyone else have stories about fish getting sucked up into filter intakes?
 
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not alive, i came in to find my gibbicels stuck to my filter....thought he was just sucking it like normal, then i thought, hang on a minute, he has no tail and its his back stuck to the filter....was really sad, especially trying to unsuck him off!
 
I had 2 small BGK's in my 100"x30"x30" was really funny because they were 1-2" haha they were like weeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
They went straight up the pipe of the fx5 to hide and got sucked up but i turned it off opend the filter up and retrieved them safely lol
 
not fish, but my filters have eaten more feeder ghost shrimp than the fish
 
HAHA. This reminds me of when I first started fish keeping. I had a 30 gallon tank w/ a Penguin Bio wheel HOB w/ 2 baby oscars (hence, first time fish keeping). I'm not sure what it's called but I took off the part that is at the end of the filter that sucks in the water from the tank. i thought the filters flow would be a lot stronger if i did and i didnt think the oscars would get sucked into it. Boy was i wrong. A few days later I woke up to my tanks filter making loud noises and i rushed to the tank. At first i thought my filter was broken but when i checked closely one of my oscars were gone and sucked up into the filter. This was probably my first lesson learned.
 
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