Killer pump help

[DaFrog]

I introduced afew days ago a (very) small Hippo Tang to my tank a few days go (after due quarantine) - The little guy was fine (eating, etc..) until yesterday where it got stuck against the intake of my 'inside the tank' pump - He died earlier today (probably from wounds he suffered - he had nasty black marks on its side) - Any idea on how to prevent having another fish being sucked againt the pump?

 

[Anonymous]

Typically a fish can get away from a pump unless it's sick. How small was the hippo? one of those babies? They really aren't suitable for aquaria at that size and really shouldn't be harvasted. Most die prior to even getting tanked in the end users aquaria. Thousands perish every summer in this trade

 

[DaFrog]

This tang was less than 2 inches long.... Darn...

 

[Anonymous]

fwiw-at that size, hippos are more plankton/meat eaters and need lots of stuff like mysis/chopped clam, etc- not veggies-if you get one that isn't paper thin from not being fed properly by the lfs/importer and feed it lots of frozen mysis, it''ll be fine

put sponges around the filter intakes

 

[mr_X]

i bought my hippo small like that too, and he is doing great in my 125. he likes to eat anything BUT algae. i have to agree with gresham, it was probably "under the weather". meanwhile, i'd look into some sort of cage for the intake of your pump.

 

[stubbsz]

My Yellow Tang recently got sucked up against the side of my 6060 Tunze.

I turned the power off and he limped off and looked a little disoriented for 10 minutes. Everyone has told me he must be sick and on the way out. However, a week later he looks the same as he ever did and still picks at the Pump that caught him.


I figure at 9 years old, it was a senior moment of resting against the pump and covering all the inlet on one side of the pump completeky.

-Adrian