Has this ever happened to any other bichir keepers?!

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So I was doing a WC on my grow out earlier, and my albino Senegal literally shot right into the gravel vac!! I have the fluval one w/ the gravel guard so he got stuck haha I just lifted up the vac so it lost suction and he fell out, he's fine but.... really haha I have always wondered if a little bichir would do that one day it was goofy

Has this ever happened to anyone else? If I didn't feel so bad for the little guy flippin out in the tube I would have taken a pic haha but I wanted to get him out asap

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Never happened to me thankfully but now I need to get a new vac tube for my water change rig just in case.
 
this happened to me with my pictus the other day. I dont have a gravel gaurd on mine. Once he shot up I freaked out, luckily he was too big to go any further lmao
 
This actually just happened to me today except with a baby aba aba knife. It kept attacking the hose wherever I went and then it went at the wrong spot and its head just got sucked up and it backed out immediately. Never attacked the hose again after that. I guess I'll see if it remembers that experience on next weeks wc.


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Ive had a ropefish swim into a garden hose during a water change. It went right through into the bucket. Must have been a wild ride.
 
I've had to pull the vaccume a few times to avoid a bichir heading that way, have had several smaller african cichlids as well as a small puffer make the trip though! Poor puffer expanded half way though, I had to blow on the other end of the pipe to pipe to shoot him back into the tank, he was fine but NEVER went near the hose again lol
 
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I've had to pull the vaccume a few times to avoid a bichir heading that way, have had several smaller african cichlids as well as a small puffer make the trip though! Poor puffer expanded half way though, I had to blow on the other end of the pipe to pipe to shoot him back into the tank, he was fine but NEVER went near the hose again lol
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Hahaha you invented a new form of hunting, using a blowpipe to shoot puffers at things

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