Found fish in my filter

[spoonman]

Was doing water change in my 115G cichlid tank today and was rinsing out the media in my Rena XP3 filter and found a baby Acei in the filter when I dumped it out in the sink. It was about 1/2" long and I put it in the tank. Lets see how it does!

[Blueiz]

Congrats! I hope it pulls through

[mfdrookie516]

wow, it survived the trip through the intake? thats awesome. hope it does ok

[thincat]

How lucky can you get. I normally just find gunk in my filters. LOL

[gheitman]

I found baby corys in my xP1 several years ago.

[DragonFish71]

I've found guppy fry in a HOB once. They are now the only ones we kept. Still alive and happy as can be.

[spoonman]

I dont know what it was eating. Pretty cool though. Still doing good, hiding out from the bigger fish.

[mermaid8]

thanks for the headsup i always frys from my guppies

[dirtysouth]

you can add a piece of filter sponge like a prefilter on your intake pipe to prevent this in the future. also prevents excessive gunk in your filter media just rinse the filter in the sink once in a while......i did this after all my gambusia fry ended up in a filter......

[martiniduck]

I used a new pair of my wife's nylons and a rubber band to cover the intake valve of my filter. I had a molly fry survive the ride through my 75 foot Python into my laundry room sink and found him the next day alive in a small bowl in the sink. I had no idea he was even in the aquarium.