Funny Fish In Sump Story With A Twist

[Black Mammoth]

I don't know how this happened. Anyway, so I have 40g sump on my AGA 90g RR tank. Where the water dumps in to the sump, it is around 20+g with a big ball of cheato. The drain in to my sump has a filter sock. I haven't been running a light on my sump because I needed a new timer. Well I bought a psychedelic Mandarin a few months ago. Well I would occasionally see my Mandarin, but not that much. He likes to hide in the rocks. Well it has been a couple of weeks without seeing him. I wasn't too concerned. Last night I saw something in my sump so I turned on the light. Sure enough it was the Mandarin!

 

So how does a fish that can barely swim get down my RR overflow? Then make it out of the filter sock? Then be happy as a clam swimming around in my sump? Well I can explain the filter sock a bit...it has been a couple months (yikes!) without changing it. So it got clogged up and the water was at the top. So he must have jumped out of that.

 

BUT WAIT! The story gets BETTER!!!!

 

So I'm laughing and then what do I see? I found a 6 Line Wrasse!!!! I bought this guy A LONG TIME AGO! I'm talking about when Sean from Aquaco was running F&F for a bit. This was probably near a year ago. It was at the first F&F social! Even then I had a filter sock on! It tells you how bad of a shape my sump has been in for awhile... no lights and no changing of the filter socks (very little). Anyway, I thought the 6 line died, but nope...in the sump!

Edited September 9, 2008 by Black Mammoth

[MLazar]

Great fish tale!

 

Congrats on rescuing 2 fish.

[davelin315]

Cool, lots of food down there for them both! I had a 6 line (squished it by accident) living in my sump as well. As far as the mandarin, you'd be surprised at how far they can jump when startled! Mine leapt about 2' when it was in the store before I bought it - straight out of the tank it was in onto the floor, probably about 1' vertical, too.

[Grav]

WELL, if you haven't cleaned the filter sock in a year, then "jumping out" of the sock would be more like getting flushed over the top by the flowing water.

[lanman]

WELL, if you haven't cleaned the filter sock in a year, then "jumping out" of the sock would be more like getting flushed over the top by the flowing water.

 

That's not a filter sock... it's a heavy debris trap. Yeah... that's what it is.

 

bob

[DDiver]

that is a pretty amazing story..