General Care Discussion :: tumble doesnt eat fish??? but the filter does

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Post Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:50 pm   tumble doesnt eat fish??? but the filter does

hi guys i just had to tell every one about my latest experience in the turtleing world.

today i removed my filter and cleaned out all the gunk and grime from the media. (before you ask no i diddnt wash anything in clean water, i used tank water)

anyway i was in the undertank cupboard disconecting the filter when i noticed something move inside it. thinking nothing of it i proceeded in removing the media and rinsing it in a bucket of tank water.

i got to the bottom and removed the tray that catches the gunk and to my supprise there were not one but four guppies swimming around happily in the bottom of the filter.

these were the guppies that we had thought tumble had eaten. obviously not.

i removed them from the filter and now they are back in the tank playing around. i did think of leaving them in there to eat the crap the filter swallowed but i never.

they must have been in there at least 2 weeks as it was around that time when they disappeared.

has any one else exrerienced this and what are four views on actually putting some guppies in there after all they were very alive and active.

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    Post Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:23 pm   

    Weird! I've never heard of such a thing! I've heard of snails getting into the filter (that's happened to me), but never fish!

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    Post Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:27 pm   

    yeah.. it happened to me once. A really small guppy got sucked into the filter. I took it out and put it back in the water, and it was eaten in a few minutes.
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    Post Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:40 pm   

    thing is these guppies aren't that small they are fully grown?????????!!!!!!!!?????

    which adds to the mystery of how they got in there in the first place.

    i was actually quite pleased when they disappeared as i thought tumble had eaten them but now i know different, im wondering why tumble doesnt eat fish lol

    maybe he does but the filter was being a greedy sod so tumble decided not to argue.
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