Starry blenny keeps ending up in overflow...

[JMLewis]

So I've had this starry blenny for over a year now. About 6 months ago he disappered and we assumed he must have jumped or died and the cuc took care of him... Well about a week ago I'm doing some tank maintenance and to my shock I see him at the top of the water level in the overflow picking at the walls!

I run over to my wife and tell her he's in the overflow and she freaks out (he was her favorite fish in the tank). So we drain the overflow and scoop him out, which was a total pain being that I have 2 drain lines and a return line that all come up through it and the return T's off at the top so can't fit my arm down in there. He's pretty skinny and must have had just enough algae in there to keep him alive.

Skip forward 24 hours and he's nowhere to be seen...turn off the return pump and shine my flashlight in the overflow and sure enough he's in there again...what the heck... So we painstakingly get him out again. 24 hours later he's in there again........WTFH!

My only theory is that he's climbing up the return locline and going in there on his own. Can't imagine he's jumping and getting lucky enough to land in the overflow and not on the floor. Anyone ever seen this kind of behavior before? I'm tempted to leave him in there at this point...

 

[Brew12]

So I've had this starry blenny for over a year now. About 6 months ago he disappered and we assumed he must have jumped or died and the cuc took care of him... Well about a week ago I'm doing some tank maintenance and to my shock I see him at the top of the water level in the overflow picking at the walls!

I run over to my wife and tell her he's in the overflow and she freaks out (he was her favorite fish in the tank). So we drain the overflow and scoop him out, which was a total pain being that I have 2 drain lines and a return line that all come up through it and the return T's off at the top so can't fit my arm down in there. He's pretty skinny and must have had just enough algae in there to keep him alive.

Skip forward 24 hours and he's nowhere to be seen...turn off the return pump and shine my flashlight in the overflow and sure enough he's in there again...what the heck... So we painstakingly get him out again. 24 hours later he's in there again........WTFH!

My only theory is that he's climbing up the return locline and going in there on his own. Can't imagine he's jumping and getting lucky enough to land in the overflow and not on the floor. Anyone ever seen this kind of behavior before? I'm tempted to leave him in there at this point...

One of my clowns would keep jumping into the overflow. It made it into a filter sock at least twice. That went on for a few weeks and then he stopped.

 

[JMLewis]

One of my clowns would keep jumping into the overflow. It made it into a filter sock at least twice. That went on for a few weeks and then he stopped.

Yea I think ill take him out one more time, after that ill just put some food in the overflow when i feed lol

 

[Maritimer]

My own starry has a habit of laying alongside the overflow's top weir, letting the current press him against the wall so that he can survey the tank from the surface, with no effort expended. His dorsal's out of the water when he does this, so it wouldn't take much of a flip to put him over the rim.

~Bruce