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Unfortunately, in our quest to put these animals in a glass box for our own selfish enjoyment, we tend to kill a lot in the learning process.Yeah, I'll certainly take partial responsibility for using these pumps with the Blennies. But at the same time, I would consider myself a bit of a noob that didn't really know any better at the time of purchase. I'd hate to think that killing fish is a right of passage to learn the hobby. If I had to do it over again I'd go with gyres or other pump like the Tunze. I have two gyres in the tank as well and like them quite a bit. And as far as I can tell there's no risk of blending fish like this with the gyres.
Unfortunately, in our quest to put these animals in a glass box for our own selfish enjoyment, we tend to kill a lot in the learning process. "
"But I must warn you now before you start a thread in the Coralvue forum titled "Beautiful anemone blended in Gyre!" It can happen. Then I will be be there to tell you. "If you just kept those MP40s with the foam covers, you wouldn't be posting this. But until that day, happy reefing!"
Umm. If I didn't have the foam pads on I'd have a whole lot more than one dead fish. Are you serious? Do any of you saying these things have Blennies? They would not last a week without the side pads.
lol! Wut??? You can't be serious kid... Nevermind. You're right, you're the only human on earth with both the mystical rare Blenny and an EcoTech pump. You should write us a book so we don't all go chopping up our fish. Clearly we must be killing multiple fish per hour with our EcoTech fish choppers. We need your guidance. Well said @jlanger -- Common sense is not so common these days..
Had a tailspot do the same thing. Loved that little guy to.
I've had this happen three times and it is unfortunate. Recently with a Picasso clown in my MP40 and a Tail spot blenny with an MP10. I've had the same thing happen to another clown with my Neptune WAVs also.
Sorry man for your loss, my longnose hawkfish sits on top of mp10 and I think one day I’ll find the same thing as you
Sorry for the loss. Lost an engineer goby the same way a couple of months ago. I have a lawn mower blenny that gives me regular heart attacks because he periodically likes to sit on top of my WAVs. I keep imagining his swishy tail getting sucked in.
Not one person has described to me how I could have avoided this without having a second person.
Sorry for the loss. Lost an engineer goby the same way a couple of months ago. I have a lawn mower blenny that gives me regular heart attacks because he periodically likes to sit on top of my WAVs. I keep imagining his swishy tail getting sucked in.
I had a midas blenny get blended by an mp10 4 years ago. I thought he was going to die but luckily he survived and is happily living in a friends 300 gallon reef.
My current midas luckily shows no interest in the mp40s when they go off.
Everyone is losing track of the real issue here.
A life is a life...and as reefkeepers I would think we as a community value our livestocks' lives. If it is possible for a life to be lost by something that can be addressed, why are so many against it and blaming it on the operator (real cute with the ID 10t error)?
Let's focus on the real issue...how do we prevent this from happening EVER? If not ever, how can we reduce the casualties? I think it's great the OP decided to call this out and try to address the issue.
Maybe the answer is a mandatory screen, maybe the answer is a warning label, I don't know. Maybe just offer an accessory.
The laissez-faire attitude of "meh it's just a fish, buy another" is everything that is wrong with this hobby. These living beings aren't just ornaments to make our houses look cooler.
How many people have had a small fish go down an overflow and get shredded in the main return pump, or killed cause it got stuck in the plumbing? Or killed somewhere else after it went through the overflow?
Perhaps there should be warning labels on the back wall of every tank saying "danger - small fish can fit through the overflow slots" And make a federal law just like mattress tags that cant be removed or you go to jail.
They can also post on the back wall of every tank - warning, there is no lid on this so your fish may jump out.
Maybe we should start a thread in every tank manufacturers forum and see how many people lost fish because they didn't have a lid on the tank. Probably alot.
I think my view is obvious.