Warning for people with young poly's

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waymoz

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Hey guys, just a quick warning for people with young poly's in their tanks..
I just lost my delhezi to what would have been a fairly painful death..
I went out to dinner and come home to check on my tank and found my delhezi was lodged head first into the filter intake and lifeless, immediately turned off the filters and pulled him out and he was just lifeless and his face was all bloody and eyes were swollen, stomach was sunken in.
it would have been roughly 20cm in length so it wasn't too thick yet.

I did have a strainer over the filter intake and it must have gotten knocked off and the delhezi has gotten his head sucked in and gotten stuck. So make sure your filter strainers are on very tight..

Being from Australia poly's are fairly rare and cost quite a lot.. so pretty upset about the loss. Hope no one else loses their poly's this way.
 
Happened to me with a ropefish once, but it was slim as a spaghetti :)
 
Sorry to hear about that.. I lost a poly in a similar way. It jumped into my overflow box then got sucked into the back of the overflow and found it there dead and soggy :(
 
i had a feeder fish get sucked into my filter ones it jammed it and the filter stopped working and all the fish in the tank died over night.
 
I had that happen to me with a retropinnis. First one I'd seen for sale, got him for $40, had him for about 4 months, and then one day I noticed my filter was struggling to pull water. The strainer had fallen off so I figured some plant material had made it up into the intake.

Pulled the filter off, pulled out the tubing, and out fell a dead retro :(.
 
It's common. I lost a few bichirs to powerful internal filter, sump in let etc. The most important thing to do is to cover any possible suicide holes that the bichirs might go into as they like hiding places.

Always learn from mistakes. :)
 
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