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well i got a couple green banded goby's on wednesday and after i dripped them i had only seen one come out. i figured maybe one was hiding or they were taking turns coming out or i got really unlucky and one died behind a rock or something. when i finished dripping them, as i was dumping them in the tank one got stuck on the wall of the bucket so instead of looking where the first one went i was paying attention to the second one and getting him back into the water. in that amount of time the first one disappeared and i hadn't seen it till today. so today i was feeding my tank and noticed the one GBG climbing/hanging out on my overflow box and thought to myself "man it would suck if he went up to the top and got sucked over into the overflow box" then i had the bright idea of looking to see and sure enough there he was, inside the overflow box swimming around like nothing had happened. this is where 2 design features that i built into the tank came into play. first was the fact that i had tinted the back of the tank but left the middle where the overflow box untinted so i could see if something ever got stuck. and 2 i didnt glue in the pipes on the inside of the overflow box for 2 reasons one so i could get in there to clean and 2 so that if this happened i could flush the fish down into the sump where i could more easily catch it. so i contorted one of my drains to flow right into a filter sock and turned on the return and waited for a while. he wasnt having it so i got in there with my arm and a then with a net to try and scare him in to the drain and after 15-20 mins of not knowing if what i was doing had any effect i looked in the filter sock and there she was. sorry for the insane long narrative but as a reward heres the before and after pics!
just chilling in the overflow
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and finally caught in the sock
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now shes safely back in the tank
just chilling in the overflow
and finally caught in the sock
now shes safely back in the tank
