So my brother just finished the setup of a new 210 g tank with a 55 g sump and last night we transferred the fish into it. Woke up this morning hearing the pump going weirdly and discovered our beloved 9-ish" fire eel dead inside one of the pipes leading to the sump. Both overflows were covered by plastic grated caps and some filter media. So how did she get sucked into it? The only openings of the filtration system in the tank are the two overflows and the return. Only options are the overflows but they were covered, can't even fit a finger through the holes and even those covers were covered with porous filter material. UGH! D':
WTF How????
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Pictures are of the tank, the two overflows, the cover of them (inside the white covering there's the grated plastic cap as well), the part in which she was found.
I know eels are surprisingly good at fitting places but the wholes in the caps are less than a centimeter wide and she was more than an inch in diameter. The coverings were intact as well, not even out of place or anything. No idea how she got in there
I dont see any big problems and I would agree with "chaz88" about them getting through very small places. I would take the filter bags off of the pipes as they might be providing a place to hide for eels and put filter pads in your sump instead. Best of luck.
yeah we have tons of filtration in the sump, the filter bags are just to keep fish out lol. Thanks thoughMATTCB;4771148;4771148 said:
