tear!!! sadness!

i woke up this morning and saw my 2inch 4 stripped damsel completely dead and stuck to a power head!!, i dont want this to happen to my other fish!!!
i only have 3 powerheads in my 55 gallon reef, and there small 2, one is a rio 800, a rio 200 (which he was stuck in) and a rio 50.

 

Sorry for your loss. This is one of the reasons why I dont like PH in the DT.

 

Sorry to here !!!
we have had alot of people having this problem latley with all sorts of different P/Hs its just one of thoes things were their good until their bad!!
sorry for your loss

 

Sorry for your loss!!!

 

Sorry for your loss

 

That sucks. Maybe time to explore PH modifications. The Tunze Turbelle Stream, the Hydor Koralia and the Vortech Propeller Pump are three units that by design, are very much fish safe.

Look into what the difference is B/W what you use, and the designs of these three above, and you're bound to never have this issue again.

 

I would think a healthy fish could avoid being sucked to a power head intake.
Could there be other factors that caused it's death.
How old is the tank? What are your Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate levels?

J

 

ok um ammonia is 0 nitrites are at 0 and nitrates are at 10, everything is good, um 5 weeks old is the tank, but i bought it already established and kept 60% of the water and everything was fine, but i noticed he wasnt eating as much the two days b4 he dided and developed like a black looking spot that covered like a quater size on his body, and he was about 2-3 inches, i put my inger by the strongest power head and didnt barley feel a suction and he was caught in a less strong power head, do you think he had a deaese?

 

could be, I guess we'll never know for sure.