Help! my fish keep getting stuck in filter

[jw1977]

I've got a HOB filter and my fish keep getting stuck in the bottom of the filter where it takes in the water. I've had a foxface that died because of it and now new blue tang just got stuck in it. What do i do? I can't put the intake screen on because of my rockwork. Any suggestions.

 

[teresaq]

You need somekind of sponge filter over it, or the fish will just keep getting sucked in
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[meowzer]

Either that or get a new type of filter

 

[ophiura]

IMO, it is pretty unlikely that a healthy fish is going to get stuck on those HOB filters unless the tank is particularly small, the fish particularly small/weak or the filter is one I am not familiar with. So I would really be wary of that. What kind of filter is this? What size tank?

 

[jw1977]

its a biowheel 400, i forget who makes it. Maybe Marineland.

 

[ophiura]

Was it just these fish or all fish? If it is one of those really small blue tangs...those things have a dismal survival rate. So it is not so much the filter as the fish. But a foxface...they are usually robust. Its weird. What size tank? Was it a new fish or an established fish? And the tank is cycled and everything?

 

[jw1977]

I had the foxface for over a year. The tank is a 46 gallon, I know I shouldn't probably have the tang in there.

 

[flower]

Move the rock..put the end back on it and put a sponge filter over that. It shouldn't be able to suck up healthy fish...