Loach in the filter ...

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jaylin

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Aug 14, 2005
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Denver-ish Colorado.
Ok, it's been a while since I've had loaches, but yesterday I picked up a few little kuhlies. (Did I spell that right, I'm to lazy to look it up.) Anyway, the new additions love the configuration of my tank. They zip from one litte hide out to another when you least expect it. It's really cute. BUT, somehow one of the little critters go into my filter! I'm still trying to figure out how he got in there because the intake is way too small for him to have been sucked up.

Poor guy, he can't have been in their long because I only got them yesterday, but .... :thud: .... are loaches known to do this?
 
I've read somewhere that loach would swim against the current of the filter and get in it that way. I haven't had that problem since I have biowheel so thats probably is what stopping them from getting in my filter. Your loach should be fine. You always can put it back in the tank and then you might find it back in your filter if the loach really likes it Ha ha.
 
i had a dojo loach that would always swim agianst the filters current, and jump in there...almost each day. My clown loaches never did that tho..
 
that happened to me but before i could figure it out the poor little guy went to fishy heaven
 
I caught him doing it today!!! The darn little thing swam right up under the lip of the filter, did this little jumpy thing to get through the current and wiggled himself the rest of the way up. :soda:

Now I'm trying to figure out what it is in the filter that's got his attention.
 
Lol, must be fun watching it doing that! Maybe theres some food it likes in there.. or some darkness and sort of security in there that it like? Just be sure to check in there to make sure your loach is still alive and kicking! :p:
 
He's still very much alive ... and probably very put out that I "rescued" him again. When I put him back in the tank, he immediatly swam under a rock with the other loaches.

I will say this, loaches in numbers are a lot more fun than the single loaches I had when I was a kid.
 
Just in case you wanted to use the method suggestes above, the little plastic mesh stuff is called plastic canvas and can be found in the craft section at stores like walmart and kmart.
 
A friend found out that his kuhki loach managed to swim upstream into his bio-wheel HOB filter no problem.
You'd think they were salmon or something. :)
 
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