Overflow HELP needed

[lpsouth1978@msn.com]

As some of you are aware, I recently switched my 90 gallon freshwater tank over to a saltwater tank. I had purchased a rose bubble tip anemone and it was doing all right, but never stopped moving around my tank. When I got home from work tonight this is what I found.

I don't think that I will be able to recover this one. My question is, does anyone else have a tank with a bottom overflow strainer? Have you had any problems like this and if so how did you take care of it?

Any ideas to keep this from happening again would be great. I don't want to drain the tank, so I have to be able to do it while it is running.

 

[Heffe01]

Is that an AGA tank? If so I wouldnt have thought the suction would be so bad there since the inner wall is solid all the way up to the top. Try turning off the return and see if he can make his own way out.

This does remind me of my favorite movie qoute though....frank and beans!

 

[lpsouth1978@msn.com]

I thought the same thing and so I didn't do anything about it when I first set up the tank. Now I need to cover it somehow to keep this from happening again.

 

[Wicked Color]

it will probably be fine, just cut the flow for a day or two.

 

[fiji4118]

If you want to block it off once he climbs back out you should be able to super glue a very thin piece of plexi onto it. You could drill corresponding hole to allow some flow but I have never see it necessary.

 

[lpsouth1978@msn.com]

If you want to block it off once he climbs back out you should be able to super glue a very thin piece of plexi onto it. You could drill corresponding hole to allow some flow but I have never see it necessary.

Well the nem climbed to the top of the inner overflow wall (little gap between strainer and drain area) and I was able to get it back in the tank. Hopefully it recovers well, only time will tell.

Once the nem was back in the tank, I took fiji4118's advice and bent a thin piece of plexi to fit over the strainer and super glued it on.

 

[spstimie]

Put a rock in a pickle jar and put it in the tank with the anemone in it. Move it out when it attaches. My sunburst still lives in a jar.