Catching fish in overflow

[Proteus]

Bend a small net

[Coralgurl]

That worked, thanks Nick! It looks mighty po'd now, but I'm glad it hopped in the overflow rather than the floor.

[Proteus]

Glad it worked. I have a few nets all bent up lol

[sphelps]

I always just stick a net under the overflow drain pipe in the sump and then pull the standpipe out very quickly. Works every time.

[Coralgurl]

Originally Posted by sphelps

I always just stick a net under the overflow drain pipe in the sump and then pull the standpipe out very quickly. Works every time.

I did try that a couple of times. The fish just curled up on the bottom in a corner as soon as the water started draining.

[Delphinus]

I used to have a pair of blue sided fairy wrasses who would always jump into the overflow. It got to the point I would just flood the overflow (I put valve on the drain pipe, so all I had to do was close the valve and turn off the sump return) and they'd just jump back into the tank on their own.

Lost both those particular fish in the same night when the canopy door wasn't shut properly. Both jumped. Of all the rotten luck.. Moral: make sure you have adequate coverings if you have fairy wrasses. It's really a question of when not if and it's just better if they can fall back into the water rather than something else.

[reefgirl189]

I don't know how your overflows are set up but when this happened to me I just restricted the drain so the aquarium overfilled and this enabled the fish to just swim out of the top of the overflow all on its own. Obviously not the best way if left unattended, but for the dumb clownfish that jumped the gate it was as stress free as I could have made it.