Outflow sucked my fish

mrmole83 · Feb 7, 2016

I had a green mandarin for 3 months. I found him dead sucked and stuck on the grill of my outflow hole. It was not the first time that the poor guy got sucked. He was sucked once but i didnt install the grill yet so he went down the sump and i cought him there. He was so lucky that time because when he went down the pipe i was changing the filter sock, if socks were there he would be dead even earlier.

After that incident i installed the grill just to find out that he got stuck to it and dead today.

Did this ever happended to you? What should i do with mandarin for them not to get sucked in since they do swim a little slow.

saltyphish · Feb 7, 2016

chopsie said:
A healthy fish wouldn't get stuck to the grill imo
I would hazard a guess that he was very weak and not 100% fit

I agree. Something was probably already wrong with him. How long did you have the fish?

saltyphish · Feb 7, 2016

I say this but for the first year my female clown would allow itself to get sucked onto the grill for my overflow and sleep that way. Made me freak out every time for a month or 2. I would run over and go to check on her only to see her swim normally away everytime.

ebushrow · Feb 7, 2016

saltyphish said:
I say this but for the first year my female clown would allow itself to get sucked onto the grill for my overflow and sleep that way. Made me freak out every time for a month or 2. I would run over and go to check on her only to see her swim normally away everytime.

Clownfish are weird sleepers...one I had in the past would just get blown around the tank by the power heads ....they end up n the overflow a lot too....but mandarins are not like this...I would bet it was either sick or malnourished...but these are just guesses.