Catching fish in overflow

[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.

[Coralgurl]

I think the reason it ended up in there was bec my filter sock was clogged, so the overflow wasn't draining at all. I noticed it missing last night but thought it had just gone to bed early.... might have just swam on in.

I do need to cover the tank as its not just wrasses that jump, I've lost clowns, hogfish and even my trigger jumped (I was sitting in the room when that happened and was able to toss him back in)

[monocus]

my fairy wrasse jumped into my overflow;i fished him out after 3 hours of trying.he then jumped back in within 2 min.he has now been happily living in my overflow for 9 months

[wmcinnes]

^ LOL