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Posted: September 10 2010 at 10:37pm |
UPDATE - just got him out  I only caused a small flood - and my wife was so happy to have him saved she didn't even care. How cool is that!?
I just found my large blue hippo tang in the overflow. I have a 150 and was underneath it cleaning the skimmer when I looked up and saw him through the glass.
He has been missing for 4 months and I thought he died and the crabs got him.
I put some food in for him and he ate like crazy -- he is skin and bones now.
How the heck do I get him out?
I'm sure some of you know some tricks.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Linn
Edited by griffith - September 11 2010 at 4:22pm
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BobC63
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Posted: September 10 2010 at 10:40pm |
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Is there any way to get a net in there, Linn?
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Posted: September 10 2010 at 10:44pm |
Maybe,
I would need a really long handle and would need to take off the hood and light.
Two pipes are in there too.
Linn
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Posted: September 10 2010 at 10:46pm |
Any way you could snap a photo of you overflow looking down into it?
That would help to see what the set up looks like and how much room you have to work with.
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griffith
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Posted: September 10 2010 at 10:49pm |
I will try to do that -- good idea.
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 9:17pm |
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lol.....i just got a flame hawk fish out of my overflow he was gone for 4 days....
i just shut off return pump .. raised returns up out of water to stop tank draining ..
overflow emptied into sump , pulled the return pipe out reached down scooped him up with my hand
in the tank he went.... happy as a pig in sea water......
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 10:22pm |
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How is the Tang doing now Linn?
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 10:43pm |
great - fat and happy
he now eats out of my hand and has no fear
very cool
Linn
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Posted: December 28 2010 at 11:37pm |
I put a black acrylic cover over my overflow years ago for 2 reasons, Fish , and algae.
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Posted: December 29 2010 at 11:31am |
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I had a maroon clown in mine, I shut off the pumps, put a bathtub drain plug in the end of the overflow pipe, turned on the return pump, waited until my overflow was full, turned off the pump and netted the fish.
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Posted: January 13 2011 at 1:32pm |
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I had a lunare wrasse go into my overflow. I also had 2 pipes in there so I put a sponge behind the pipes to force him out and then netted him. (he was not hard to catch cause he was so weak.)
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