Disappearing Clown

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Danielj

About 3 months ago I noticed my pair of clowns was down to 1. I have a very effective cleanup crew, and I figured something happened and I would never find the body to see what happened. All water params were fine, and no other fish showed any signs of illness.

A few days after it went missing, I purchased another female clown who has paired up and is doing great.

Last night I was cleaning the skimmer, and I dropped the hose in the sump. I leaned way under to grab it, and happened to see a shadow flash above me. The female clown is in my overflow! She looks fat and happy, almost excited to see me, she started dancing, or wiggling.

I am going to free her tonight, but I have two questions.
1. What is the best way to get her out without harming her?
2. Will she be ok to place back in my tank since I now have a pair in my 180?

I have a 180g all glass aquarium, that came with the pvc reef ready up pipes. (Sorry I dont know how to describe them). So there is little room for my hand or a net to try and scoop her out. I thought about just pulling the pipe out, and let it suck her down, but will that work?

Any tips would help, thanks!
 
If she is in the overflow, pull the drain tube and let her go to the sump/fug and you should be able to net her there. Unless she is bigger than the one inch drain line.8)
 
I would think you will have a problem .. From what I have read 2 females in a tank does not work.


You do have a large tank.. I would be worried about hurting ht e pair that awe doinf well now.. But on the other hand ... she was the first..

Kinda hard...


I had it happen to me I turned off the pumps and pulled everything out of the over flow and just netted it out..
 
I had this happen about a week and a half ago. I have the AGA 120 RR.
I shined a flash light into the overflow from up above and caught my clown with one of the smallest nets they sell at Petsmart.
My initial estimate of being at it for hours was wrong... it took me less then 5 minutes.

Good luck. :)
 
My male went missing last week, I figure he is a gonner since I don't have an overflow. I have a 30 gal with a HOB fuge/skimmer powered by a maxijet 1200. But so far, no evidence of him anywhere...
 
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