The typical how to get clownfish out of overflow?

The typical how to get clownfish out of overflow?

Amazing that it had to jump out of water and over overflow lip. Is the answer to starve the tank for a coupe days? Put food in the net and just wait inside overflow? Not enough room for a trap.

The the lip it had to jump over

 

Don't ever starve your tank ballgame. You can try a few things like siphon him out of the overflow with a big enough tube or you can drain the overflow into a bucket. I used a 1-1/2" tube and the suction was to great for my chromis to avoid it. Clownfish do crazy things. I wouldn't waste time with a net

 

Ha ok thanks. Siphon is probably best bet

 

Siphon was my thought as well, probably less stressful for the clown and you that way. Hope it works for you.

 

Thabks. I'll try that.
Funny I see threads all the time about this but never read. Until I needed too.

But anyone find it off it jumped over the lip and into overflow? Anywhere else it's dead and dry on floor

 

I had an eggcrate covering the top of my first tank and one day i couldn't find my diamond Goby. I looked for a couple days before i found his dried little body wedged between the eggcrate and my light fixture cover about 1/4 inch from the eggcrate. It is crazy what some fish will do.

 

I had 2 firefish that wanted to take a tour of the plumbing system. They jumped into the overflow box, went down the hose and into my wet/dry filter system. For a few days I was going nuts looking for them all over the tank until I opened the bottom cabinet to get something and my daughter pointed them out. Lets just say it was an adventure to get them out but managed to do it. Got them out and back to the LFS they went.

I did syphon them out like people are recommending here and it worked!

Keep us posted and I hope you can get the poor guy out

 

I was doing a water change last week and when I turned the pumps back on I luckingly noticed that one of the overflows was quickly filling up with water. Turned the pumps off and saw that a large turbo snail had wedged himself into the drain hole at the bottom preventing the flow of water into the sump. If I had not noticed it...... well you know.

Does anyone have a suggestion how to absolutely prevent that from happening again? I thought maybe putting a piece of plastic gutter screen over the drain hole in the overflows. Good idea? any help would be appreciated..

 

I don't have a siphon hose wide enough for him. So still in the overflow until I can get that.

 

I had the same issue once and to rectify it I cut some egg crate just large enough to fit into the drain pipe and glued it in. No problems since then.

When my goby took it's swim in the overflow I pulled my drain pipe and let it flush into my sock. Returned him to the tank and he's never tried that again..