How to get a fish out of the overflow?

[shanepike]

I have no clue how a fish gets out of the water and into a gap barely his height between the top of the overflow and the lights, but this is what I woke up to this morning:

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Any clever ways to get him out other than draining the overflow and removing the PVC pieces?

 

[ripped tide]

Make sure the sump isn't too high, pull the drain pipe, have a net ready at the other end.

 

[rdnelson]

Or start stuffing filter floss down inside the overflow. The fish will move up to the top as room runs out below him. Once he is at the top use a small net. Worked for the Fire Fish a member gave me. Took all of about 5 minutes. Once done, pull the filter floss out.

 

[winkkle]

just get a super small net thatll fit down there thats how i caught my wrasse. Do it at night and shine a bright light on it to stun him and u can scoop him right up.

 

[shanepike]

Alright, she resisted going down the drain and that turned it into MUCH more of an ordeal than I anticipated, but all is well now. Thanks for all the help, guys, and thanks for the lightning response, Dylan!

 

[ripped tide]

No prob! Yeah, occasionally they don't like going down. I should have added that part. I have skinny arms and reaching down into the over flow and grabbing them out has never been much of an issue, but the first time, it did catch me off guard.

I'm glad all worked out!

 

[mc524]

Must be a "Clown" thing. Long story short, I added a Royal Gramma a while back. He decided to host in some LR that had holes just big enough for him. Just so happened it was the rock below my BTA that the Clown pair hosts in. So the bigger Clown turned into a bully. I re-scaped everything, but the bigger Clown would still swim over there and chase him into the hole. So I decided to catch his butt one night and place him in the Sump for a while. See if re-introducing him might fix the issue. I really like the Gramma's colors and enjoy seeing him swim around.
So, I've found this bugger in every section of my Sump. Trying to get him out of the Pump section has been the hardest as there is not a whole lot of room to swing a net around in there with the Pump in the way, Top Off Switch, ATO outlet. Uhggg:mad2: :lol2:When we came home from being out of town this weekend...dummy was swimming up and down through the bubble trap.:roll:

 

[shanepike]

Ha! They definitely earn their name

 

[shanepike]

FWIW, she did it again about a month ago. This time, though, I couldn't get her out right away and I forgot when I got back home. The next morning, she had gotten herself out somehow.

Clowns...SMH

 

[rdnelson]

Lol

 

[superclown]

I had one that used to hop the overflow all the time first few times they ended up in the sump after that I put a cover to keep him from going into overflow and the would hop back and foward. They don't seem to do it as much once they get bigger

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[darren24]

I stuck my hand down and mine came flying out the top right in to the tank.

 

[gregoryleonard]

I have a neon dottyback that did that so I took a long skinny clear plastic bag and attached fishing line to 3 locations on top of the open end part of the bag, added a small piece of coral to the bottom to make it sink, placed it in the overflow and once the fish got used to it being in there, when I fed it and some of the food sank to the bottom of the bag and he went in to get the food I lifted the bag with the fishing line and viola, caught me a fish without having to tear the aquarium apart. Took about a day of being patient, but worked for me.

 

[grouper therapy]

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[ripped tide]

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