what about a stick with a barb on the end?

I tried a turkey skewer tied to the end of tongs but there is not a lot of meat left on the corpse to grab a hold of. The bristleworms and crabs that have become trapped in the overflow are slowly making their work on it.

A pile of bristle worms, feather dusters, and a billion brittle stars

One side an African Flameback Angel and the other a Green Sea Grass Wrasse...sadly I can't get either out...but otherwise, I have nothing else in there....

A white pvc pipe that makes WAY too much noise.