Why do the weird things happen to my tank...

[Rogue951]

lol yes I thought about the blow out method with either compressed air or with a pump. and yeah the mess came to mind so that was my last resort.
After all that thought and work and hours of wasted time. The most useful $8 tool I have ever bought.



You can see what it had to crawl up and over and around and up again to get into the pipe in the first place.

Serious ninja hermit here.



I wish I took a picture but I actually tried a "long line" rescue, firefighter style. lol.
dropped a string down in some vain hope it'd grab it and pull itself out.
didn't work so well.

[KPG007]

Wow, thats pretty incredible! Good job getting him out

[neven]

since im on LED, i installed a mesh cover that reaches my overflow strainer height so its eliminated all my hermit crab issues, had one do the same thing but luckily i use PVC hoses so it wasn't as bad to fix. But the one that got stuck in the valve, not realizing it and i turned it to hear a big crunch.

[input80]

Ouch Jason, good job, good thing it wasn't worse.

[hfp75]

The shell looks empty where is he?

[Rogue951]

the white thing under the grabber's claw is the hermits claw.

Originally Posted by neven

since im on LED, i installed a mesh cover that reaches my overflow strainer height so its eliminated all my hermit crab issues, had one do the same thing but luckily i use PVC hoses so it wasn't as bad to fix. But the one that got stuck in the valve, not realizing it and i turned it to hear a big crunch.

That's a good idea I should make one with old egg crate... but then... it might climb on top of that and out the tank. lol