silly fish vs overflow box

[speg]

any of you have problems with smaller fish finding their way into your overflow box (if you have one)? I think I lose a fish and late at night guess where I find it.. swimming around inside my overflow box.. The really funny part is I find them on the OUTSIDE box
So far.. 2 blue chromis.. and clown goby (two times) have fallen prey to zee evil overflow box of doom!

 

[viper_930]

Haha, kind'a funny to imagine them going through the siphon to get to the outside box.

You can try putting some plastic or nylon meshing on the inside box to block the fish from getting sucked up.

 

[speg]

i've thought about that.. but im so lazy you have no idea.

 

[who dey]

i had a flame in my last tank that used to ride the waterslide all the time

 

[engine15]

I just removed my crazy 6 line wrasse form the back of my 24g Nano cube for the third time in as many months, This time only took about 30 minutes to get him out. I'm getting better.. So, instead of going through this again I simply placed him in my 90g Semi Reef, FOWLR that he can't get out of and he was swimming around the place right away like he has been in there for a year... he's already pushing the established black cap gramma around.. Those six lines are cool fish and I like him a lot, now he has way more room to goof off...

 

[speg]

k.. 3 times for clown goby now.. he likes it in there.

 

[harlequin]

I had a pipefish that would do that all the time.

 

[traib]

One evening I found my orange banded gobi with his shrimp in the built in (drilled tank) overflow. At about midnight I checked again and the gobi was out in the tank. I figured I'd get the shrimp in the morning. Well, the next morning the gobi was back in the overflow with his shrimp plus an emerald crab! Since there is little room in the overflow I had to remove the stand pipe and drain the critters out. Big pain. Now I'm rigging up a permenent drain just in case this happens again.

 

[lion_crazz]

All of you are really lucky that none of your experiences have turned out negatively. I have a built-in overflow in the tank, and the night I bought my first diamond goby and acclimated him, he went into the tank and seemed to be fine. He just crawled around and sifted through the gravel like he was supposed. The next morning I came down to check on the tank and I could not find the diamond goby. The lights were still out, so I figured he was in there somewhere. I came home around 3:00 and found the diamond goby lying on my poly fiber pad. The night before, he must have jumped into my overflow box, jumped into my stand pipe that leads to my wet/dry, went all the way through my pool hosing where he made his last and final stop on my wet/dry pad. Poor diamond goby...
Since then, I have seeled up every little spot on the tank so that nothing could jump out. I got a new diamod goby that is doing fantastically also.