I can't get it out of the hole!

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calicichlid

calicichlid

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Man I tell you my heart dropped when I saw just the tail of my recently rescued loisellei sticking out of the drain/ outlet of my long term holding tank.

I had taken the cover off to to tighten down the sorta diy bulkhead and forgotten to replace it when the wife asked me to go to the store. Trust me the feeling I had when I returned and saw this was hopeless. I mean I had just taken him out of my QT and added him into general population not even in for 2 hours. Well it was a struggle everytime i grabbed his tail fin my grip just slid off. At one point I wasn't even sure it was still alive. Then I notice alil wiggle in his tail then I had hope again. With alot of tugging and wiggling we finally final freed him or her.

Well then end of this story is that the loisellei ended back in the QT to heal from minor damage, but nothing to serious.

Anyone else ever have a tight situation?
 
I went to my lfs one day to pick up some frozen krill and stop at the grocery store next to it to grab some market shrimp, Well after I came back I had found my smaller 7" arowana stuck into the intake of my filter. After I freed him he was fine, and it hasnt happened since,....idk what happened that day. Usually he is strong enough to swim away from it.
 
I used to work at a lfs where our display tank was clogged. Somehow, one of the Sleeper Gobys managed to jump into the over flow box and got sucked in the intake. It was dead when I came into work, but it was stuck. It was a nasty job trying to get it unclogged. At the end, we ended up stabbing it with a screw driver and prying it out.
 
had a nice fat weather loach get into the intake of my xp3 last year after my pacu musta knocked it of one night.

you try getting a loach out from the u-bend at the top of an intake, its quite disgusting
 
I once owned two German rams that didn't see eye to eye. The bigger of the two would constanlty chase the smaller all around the tank. At the time I had some weird rock thingy with a small hole in the middle. As per usual at feeding time the bigger would chase the small one away. This time the smaller one had gone striaght down and throguh the hole in the rock with the larger one in tail..... how very Tom and Jerry.. you guessed it the biggerone got realllly lodged in there took me about 15 mins to get him out. After this I split them up.... Rams:screwy:

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my lfs had a snail clog their return pump to their 3 75 gallons tnaks so the bottem tank had half of the water in it was like a flood just to open the lid.
 
I walked up on my tank once and spooked my Alpha Front and he darted away, well I fed them about 20 min later and noticed that he wasn't out eating..................found him stuck between a bubble wand suction cupped to the back of the tank and the glass. :WHOA:

He was stressed but recovered fine :headbang2
 
i used to live next to a stream and i would catch all sorts of stuff like bristle nose plecs so i would just put them in my tank i had tons of fish all of them i caught myself so i didnt really care if they live, this was when i first went into the hobby of coarse it was over stocked with, convicts, crayfish, plecs and swordtails. so one day when i was cleaning out the filter i found a huge plec that was nasty but lived well from all the algea dont know how he got their
 
One I recall not too long ago was, I came home one day and found my cray fish in the bathroom, about 20-30 feet from the tank. He some how got out and roamed the house. And when I found him he was all weak and had all kinds of dirt and hair and other stuff on him. Dont know how long he was out, but I suspect several hours. He was fine once he got back in the tank.

I know this happens normally with crays, but it was kinda weird.
 
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