Please help Uncle Jack !

One of my favourite fish fondly called uncle Jack, faces a terrible conundrum..

He’s grown so rapidly over the years, I literally can’t get him out of the tank. I’ve made a DIY glass ramp and pulley system as an escape route, as seen in the picture, but he refuses to budge. I’ve even tried placing a cute female Dempsey on the other side of the glass, but he just has a blank expression on his face and refuses to move across. I thought of trying to quickly strip the silicone off one of the sides or perhaps smash a hole with a golf club or hammer and quickly free him, but fear I may then injure him !

As the days go by Uncle Jack gets bigger and bigger, as does the problem..

Any advice from the DIY experts would be most welcome by both of us, but we need to move quickly as Jack's time is near !

 

April Fools! AGAIN! Good try!

 

Oooh, it could be. Have you tried pushing him out with something?!

 

Wish Jack thought it was a joke, perhaps I should have rather posted this tomorrow for a better and kinder response..

Firefly, thanks for your concerns, I can't get enough access anywhere to push anything through and have also tried the light in the tunnel trick, but to no avail ..

 

And if you broke the siphon causing him to be sucked out?

 

Do you maybe have a photo of the bigger picture? How it all connects together. Then maybe we can help.

 

Ok here goes, this is the section where the other pair mainly swim, but the tank starts in the other room, but I will only be able to take a pic when my tenant gets back this evening..

 

OT, that is so COOL! what about siphon idea?

 

gosh, sorry Trevor & Jack! I offer most abject apologies! Hope some-one more experienced can help out...

 

I also thought about the siphon idea, but the problem is if you let the water out too quickly the fish can end up high and dry in the middle of the tunnel. It is not as if you can quickly fill it up again. (That is why I asked for the bigger picture.)

So you will have to let the water out very slowly and hope that the fish will move to the area with the most water all the time. This will cost a lot of coordination and is not going to be easy.

Is there maybe any way that you can push a flexible pipe like 'n hose pipe in the one end and get the fish to move to the other end?

 

The tank works on a kind of tidal electrolysis basis, but Aquazoo knows the process and chemistry better than me. The problem is I have no longer household insurance, as it once leaked badly in the lounge and over the Hifi system when I was away when Murphy decided to have a power cut ! I therefore can't risk going for the suction/siphon method as you sugest. The other nightmare with letting air into the system is ongoing green glass and then the patience required with maneuvering the magnetic scraper with a ladder and into the tenant's section when he has guests..

Anyway I am getting away from Jack’s dilemma, heaven help him. As you might see from the first pic he seems to be making a bubble nest, but thought only anabantids did that or he's running out of air ! !

 

Sorry about the delay, I just managed to grab a pic on my tenant’s side of the other section leading down to the ground zero and the holding tank. As a rule I don’t like to take shots at night with a flash, as some of the fish can spook and hurtle down the main corridor at seriously dangerous speeds and I’m only dealing with 8 to 10mm glass here with no end buffers.

Jack seems to be listing and swaying from side to side now, so I urgently need to move quickly and make some final decisions..

 

Haha good one. Is this perhaps the rest of "your" setup?



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Yea finally... and I guess it's almost midnight and we have at last moved on to another day. Anyway thanks or all the prayers, thoughts, ingenious solutions and pm'ed condolences!

Jack.

 

Jokes aside, this is really an extraordinary invention and worth a ponder ..