Good fish day turned to crap

[KrisDeitz]

Installed a nice canister filter on my cube to hold all my carbon and ect

Both my nano Picasso and one extreme snowflake got sucked up when I was working on putting the net over it. Lost all three.

They where doing really good too

 

[rodasphoto]

I am sorry to hear about your loss.

 

[rdnelson]

Oh no!! Man I hate to hear that.

 

[darth reefer]

Man, that stinks.

 

[tony_caliente]

Sorry for your loss Chris, but maybe I can learn something. How did they get sucked-up? Especially all 3? Isn't the intake tubing 3/8 or something like that? If you don't want to talk about it...just ignore. Again...I am sorry. I lost a fish or two as I was pouring off water from the LFS bag/container and the fish fell into the disposal...stinks!

 

[cedzaquaddiction]

Dang, Man. So sorry to hear that. I remembered reading about when you got those fish too...

 

[j_b_]

Tony_Caliente;824023 wrote: Sorry for your loss Chris, but maybe I can learn something. How did they get sucked-up? Especially all 3? Isn't the intake tubing 3/8 or something like that?

Good point, Tony...I'm very curious too...I've never, in 25+ years had something like this happen.

What kind of canister is it? Did you not have the strainer on the intake?

 

[KrisDeitz]

It's a Rena. Idk what size or anything. It has a 1/2" intake. I was cleaning the pipe that has a net guard and forgot to put it on. My clowns always swim up top and when the lights went out I check and they were fine. Lights came on today and only the female was left. The bodies where bent from being sucked up. I don't user stand how they got sucked up that easy

Edit: It was my own fault. They have never been near a filter before so maybe they got curious

 

[dakota9]

Hi Kris,

Stupid mistakes........ I've made a few (too many). All we can do is mourn the loss, learn from them, and move on.

Sorry for your loss Man!

 

[KrisDeitz]

Good to see you back man. Hope you come around more.

Yeah it was my fault. Just sucks to lose priceless fish like those snowflakes