My Chromis love the sump

[Ken]

Hi, I had a few chromis, one of them went over the overflow and into the sump, my sump is fairly huge, so catching it was quite a challenge, so finally I just left him/her in the sump, totally forgotten about the poor guy, but just last week I saw the chromis in the sump and it seem very healthy and content. Unfortunately he/she is the sole single one, but happy. Regards Ken

[Rogue951]

I keep a bad strawberry pseudochromis and Allen's damsel in my sump.
too bad they don't play nice. they both have fantastic character.

[MikeInToronto]

About 6 years ago I had a group of anthias. They were beautiful and the male was spectacular. One day the male disappeared and I was confused because he wasn't in the sump, on the floor, anywhere.
One day while cleaning I found him in the sump. When I built the sump I added an extra hole in some sort of forethought and just capped it using a short piece of vinyl tubing. Well this is where he lived so I never saw him. I remember, too, thinking I doubt he would be in there so I didn't check.
Anyway I had already replaced him. I did something stupid after that and added him back to the tank. Well, the tank big so I couldn't recatch him and the other male killed him. The really sad part was my old male was 100x nicer than the new one. Lesson: Anthias are mean.

Thanks for all the replies and advice. I might try gutterguard.

[Snappy]

These over flow combs made by Aqua-Medic work well, are adjustable and will keep most live stock in the display. They come as a 2pack and you can easily cut them to size. Eggcrate is way too big in my opinion. I bought them through Red Coral Aquariums in Calgary.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showpo...&postcount=242

[MikeInToronto]

Yesterday I was heading out to Home Depot to get gutterguard and I got distracted and ended up going to the LFS. While there I picked up a Potter's angel. Anyway, last night he got sucked into the overflow pipe and it wasn't large enough for him to slide through. He was crammed in there and died. Poor fishy. I fed him to my carpet anemone.

I put eggcrate in the overflow. It works well enough. I'm going to Home Depot now to get the gutterguard.

The carpet never looked happier than this morning.

Maybe it was meant to be. Potters aren't really reefsafe. It still makes me sad, though.

I'm down to 1 chromis, too. I think the carpet ate at least some of the other 4.

[MikeInToronto]

These are pics of how I rigged up the gutter guard. Originally I tried just stretching it across the entire overflow but it isn't rigid enough to stay straight. I think the way I rigged it is much better because it doesn't disrupt the flow into the OF. It won't keep the fishes out but it will stop them from going into the sump.




The anemone is very efficient at digesting its meals. It excreted the "waste" this afternoon and the only thing that came out was a few spines and a blob of goo. Very sad indeed but at least it went to good use. I added a pic of the anemone with some of the goo in its mouth.