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Jack Dempsey
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Even though we are not very big in the marine section I still like to post here better than other forums such as the ones that rhyme with beef lental. I posted this story on there which in the end i thought was quite funny... all i got there was stuff like "what? i dont get it..."

seriously try to imagine urself in my position n this wud seem pretty funny...

Fish Murder!
I just accidentally murked my cleaner wrasse... i never liked him anyway... he was a gift. But anyway he got into my overflow like 2 weeks ago n hes done that before but then he ended up goin down into the sump n i could scoop him out n toss him back in the tank. this time he wasnt goin through. So I decided to flush him through and I pulled out the pipe in the overflow that keeps the water level up and then all the water in the overflow went flying down to the sump... fish included. So i go to find him in the sump... no fish... im like ***?
I go check back in the overflow to see if maybe he was in that last bit of water left at the bottom... but no fish. 5 minutes of lookin around i finally decide to look outside the tank n aparently he has come through the pipe to the sump and spontaneously jumped out of the sump. I picked him up n put him in the tank n took all the dog hair off him but he didnt move n just sank to the bottom breathin real heavy... pretty sure hes a gonner...


and right as I was sayin that I looked to see if he was still on the bottom n to my dismay the little bastard is swimmin around harassing fish as he once used to do... dammit
 
haha. They never cease to amaze!
 
i did find it dead this morning though :P
 
Sorry to hear.
 
aw man when i first set up my 55 overflow i lost my favorite fish of the bunch this way. He was a 2 year old yellow lab about 4 inches and gorgeous.... one day i noticed he was missing and i figured he was probly hiding... couple more days went by (at this time I still hadnt seen him even at feeding) and i started to worry, i checked the tubing that hooked up to my canister filter and there we was.... his beautiful yellow body had been reduced to a fin-less cylinder about 1/2 inch in diameter...
those overflows can be hazardous haha
 
naw im glad hes dead he was a ***** :P
but ill prolly get another cuz even though they are annoying they clean the other fishies pretty good...
 
lost a 7 inch polypterus senegalus that way as well. my friend decided to rigg up his overflow to take in water about mid way down by drilling holes in it. the holes werent the issue. it was the fact that at feeding time the polyp would go to the surface of the water and swim fast all over looking for food. well the one day he must have been doing this because he went missing and wound up at the bottom of the overflow sitting in the water. we got him out and i noticed he had a sore on his body from im guessing being stuck to the tubing inside the overflow, about to get sucked up. somehow he dislodged himself from the intake tube that leads to the sump. well a few months later, actually like 4 weeks ago, he went missing again right after feeding, but luckily we knew where to look, in the overflow. checked the overflow... nothing. he actually got sucked up into the tubing that goes to the sump and my friend said he found him in the first section of the sump and couldnt get him out. it was not a good day since he was the last survivor of the original set of fish my roommate stocked in there. it was actually my selection to contribute to his tank and he was a mere inch and a half when we got him. he was the best fish in there and seeing him grow from that small to close to 7 or 8 inches was awesome to witness. he is definitely getting one of these again though as soon as he picks up some slate to block off the open top of the overflow.
 
Poor guy lived a tough life. At least he might be in a better place now.
 
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