I just got 6 yoyo loaches today. I've read everything about them I could find, but nothing could prepare me for this....
I have a penguin 350 biowheel filter. I heard the filter make a weird noise, and went over to look at it, one of my yoyo loaches had swum up the outtake of the biowheel! He swam into the thing! I saw his little tail sticking out from underneath the biowheel. I turned it off as quickly as I could, and I think he's hiding now so I have no idea if he's ok or not, but I'm terified to turn the filter back on. Since I put them in the tank, they've gone CRAZY cleaning everything, and I know he was just trying to get at some algae or something inside the filter (there's none at all in the tank) and he just swam into it. I don't know what to do. Has anyone had this kind of experience before?
EDIT: I think he did it twice. I head the noise twice, the first time I didn't think to look, but the second time I did. And they've been going to the intake of the filter trying to get whatever they can from that. I put in a few bottom feeder pellets hoping that would fill them up, but if they're anything like every other kind of fish in the world, that won't do a thing. I don't know what to do, this is really freaking me out...
I have a penguin 350 biowheel filter. I heard the filter make a weird noise, and went over to look at it, one of my yoyo loaches had swum up the outtake of the biowheel! He swam into the thing! I saw his little tail sticking out from underneath the biowheel. I turned it off as quickly as I could, and I think he's hiding now so I have no idea if he's ok or not, but I'm terified to turn the filter back on. Since I put them in the tank, they've gone CRAZY cleaning everything, and I know he was just trying to get at some algae or something inside the filter (there's none at all in the tank) and he just swam into it. I don't know what to do. Has anyone had this kind of experience before?
EDIT: I think he did it twice. I head the noise twice, the first time I didn't think to look, but the second time I did. And they've been going to the intake of the filter trying to get whatever they can from that. I put in a few bottom feeder pellets hoping that would fill them up, but if they're anything like every other kind of fish in the world, that won't do a thing. I don't know what to do, this is really freaking me out...