Have you experienced a near catastrophe for your fish or tank

[Fishmanic]

This morning , in my 29 gallon tank which houses 4 BN Pleco, a peppered Cory, and a single skirt tetra, I use a marineland 200 filter. Well this morning, I heard the loud whirring sound of the filter which indicates water is not properly being sucked into the impeller area. I went to check it out and noticed the extension tube had fallen off the intake. I also noticed the tail of my Albino BN Pleco sticking out of the short remaining part of the intake. I tried to pull it out, but it scampered deep into the remaining u shaped part of the tube. I thought he would be chopped up by the impeller I removed the remaining short tube and flushed out the pleco in the sink. I plopped him back into the tank and he was fine. I reassemble the intake tube and things are now back to normal.

Have you experienced a near catastrophic event for your fish or your tank? Tell us about it.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Glad your pleco is ok! I've had a few similar things happen. My favorite (because it has a happy ending) was when my kuhli loaches disappeared. I thought they were long gone until I tore down the tank over a year later, when I found all of them except one, fat and happy, living under the UGF plates...and the remaining one, also fat and happy, inside the canister filter.