Well, after stuffing myself rather full of turkey, I made my way home to a riveting evening of reading and water changes.
I was draining a 65 gallon, nose in book when I hear a slurrrrpp sound from the python, which generally means a plant or somesuch got sucked up that shouldn't have been... then it occurs to me.. this is my snail tank, only occupied by a discus, an angel, two guppies, a madtom cat fry and an african dwarf frog... no live plants... and I didn't put a net over the intake..
I bound to the kitchen sink in time to see something dark get sent into the faucet connector and not make its way out into the sink itself. Oh no.
Please be a silk plant leaf. I close the drain and send water back into the tube and push the.. yup.. it's the frog.. back a little ways along the tube to identify him. He's still alive in there. 
Hm. Maybe I can gently send him back out the other way.
No such luck. He goes in one of the connectors, and doesn't come out. I turn the water off. I unscrew the connector, and see that one of his little feet is caught in the seal. I gently unwedge him and he crawls out of the connector and wiggles a little way down the tube.
Well, so I proceeded to mangle one of my $50 pythons
for my $2.99 impulse buy-dwarf frog. But, impulse buy or not, I've had him for a really long time, and I like to watch him. I cut him out of there, but one of his legs is damaged. No open wounds or anything, but likely something's broke.
I have him confined to a large net sitting along the top of the water right now as it seems difficult for him to swim from the botton of the tank to the top to get air, and I don't have any other tanks heated as warm as this one and didn't want to stress the little bugger out anymore than he already is by moving him to a cooler, if shallower tank.
I usually cover the end with a net, but this time I didn't.
Anyone else have experience sucking fish up their python? Did they survive?
The poor little guy. I figure I'll let him calm down a bit before I try to feed him.
zek
I was draining a 65 gallon, nose in book when I hear a slurrrrpp sound from the python, which generally means a plant or somesuch got sucked up that shouldn't have been... then it occurs to me.. this is my snail tank, only occupied by a discus, an angel, two guppies, a madtom cat fry and an african dwarf frog... no live plants... and I didn't put a net over the intake..
I bound to the kitchen sink in time to see something dark get sent into the faucet connector and not make its way out into the sink itself. Oh no.
Please be a silk plant leaf. I close the drain and send water back into the tube and push the.. yup.. it's the frog.. back a little ways along the tube to identify him. He's still alive in there. Hm. Maybe I can gently send him back out the other way. No such luck. He goes in one of the connectors, and doesn't come out. I turn the water off. I unscrew the connector, and see that one of his little feet is caught in the seal. I gently unwedge him and he crawls out of the connector and wiggles a little way down the tube.
Well, so I proceeded to mangle one of my $50 pythons
for my $2.99 impulse buy-dwarf frog. But, impulse buy or not, I've had him for a really long time, and I like to watch him. I cut him out of there, but one of his legs is damaged. No open wounds or anything, but likely something's broke.I have him confined to a large net sitting along the top of the water right now as it seems difficult for him to swim from the botton of the tank to the top to get air, and I don't have any other tanks heated as warm as this one and didn't want to stress the little bugger out anymore than he already is by moving him to a cooler, if shallower tank.
I usually cover the end with a net, but this time I didn't.
Anyone else have experience sucking fish up their python? Did they survive? The poor little guy. I figure I'll let him calm down a bit before I try to feed him.
zek
Its a frog, its small, its injured, its $2.99...