Sump Divers...

[Mr Cob]

We all have them or have...

Mine currently is a Lettuce Nudi i got from Justin....the dude will not stay put in the main display. He has sump dived well over ten times....probably like 20 or more. He eats that green slime stuff I have. My display looks pretty for a couple of days and then he's back to the sump....REFUGIUM. He found the gold and can't get enough.

Post your sump divers...

[Regric25]

Nylon black window screen around the overflow will curb that. :) Nylon window screen is like Robitussin. It fixes everything. :D I have a roll of it if you need some.

[Europhyllia]

Wow. That sounds like it would keep out a lot of stuff. I am too scared a algae floatie would clog that up and nothing drains!
I might try it with my leftover 1/4" clear screen though
The only sump jumpers I had were the clowns when Moby was here.
Sadly I don't have a screen on the little tank and I lost an anthias last night because it just jumped out of the tank :(
I'd much rather would have found it in the sump.

[Regric25]

Yea it would catch debris but the window screen is so cheap its easy to replace. Just like media filter you would just have to change it out but it could work...:)

[ballardjr2000]

Hermit crabs and snails, tend to be my sump divers, here is the kicker though to get down into my sump they have to go through three filters course, fine, and carbon, my over flow tube is connected to the lid of the tidepool 2 sump so how i always find them down in the sump area were my skimmer and return pump is is a mystery.

[tebstan]

I had the opposite happen... impulse bought a cute little nudi that turned out to be a sponge eater, not an algae eater... so he was banished to the cryptic sump where he stood a fighting chance without destroying my ornamental sponges. Next morning... there he was, in the main DT. :confused:

[justahobby]

Glad to hear its still doing good Rob.. in the sump. I haven't had sump divers in a while, but when I had a yellow clown goby he would occasionally surf the Mini - EAC. I noticed he did it when I would rearrange his typical perching spots.

[Double-O-Zilch]

I had a watchman goby I could not keep out of the back chambers in my BCs. He lived for months in the 14 pump chamber, but when moved to the 29 didn't last long because food never made it to the 3rd chamber and what I put in there would get sucked out too fast. I put a piece of Plexiglas from the front of the tank to hanging over the rear chambers, maybe a 1/8" gap between the camber wall and Plexiglas, and he still would get back there. He was too smart for his own good.

[Mr Cob]

Glad to hear its still doing good Rob.. in the sump. I haven't had sump divers in a while, but when I had a yellow clown goby he would occasionally surf the Mini - EAC. I noticed he did it when I would rearrange his typical perching spots.

Yes, but he's much smaller. not sure how that is possible considering he's living in the refugium.


I had the opposite happen... impulse bought a cute little nudi that turned out to be a sponge eater, not an algae eater... so he was banished to the cryptic sump where he stood a fighting chance without destroying my ornamental sponges. Next morning... there he was, in the main DT. :confused:

That's crazy. Great story though.