My fish keeps jumping into the filter?

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I just set up a fish tank a few weeks ago and have been slowly adding fish. I recently added a loach. Last night I was watching all of the fish and they were all there. I walked away and heard a splash, I went back right away and could not find the new fish (the loach). I thought it had jumped out. I looked all over the tank and then all around it. I finaly came to the conclusion that my cat must have got to it before I could. I kept my eye out for it today and never found it. Then just a few minutes ago I see it swimming around again. I walk away, and i hear it jump again. I had seen it swimming around the filter so I decided to open it up and look in, and there it was. Is it safe for my fish to keep jumping in and out of the filter? How do I get it to stop? Its like its jumping up the little stream of water that flows out of the filter to get in.
 
have you ever seen finding nemo?
yeah he's trying to escape back to the ocean =D
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on one of my tanks my filter didnt have a screen on the intake tube and i found 6 or 7 baby convicts inside the filter box on a few occasions i dont see a problem with it as long as they dont get hurt i just keep puttin em back in the tank
 
hmmm sounds like your fish is trying to hide from the others..maybe he is being bullied and he has found that he can get in there to get away from them
 
This happened all the time with my guppies. They do it like you said, it is no real danger if it can get out of the filter, my guppies can't so I have to search for them and take them out. Then I blocked all entrances that they could possibly enter through. I covered my inlet tubing with a thin sheet of cloth, and my exhaust tube with a spray bar. This worked with me, so you should try it, but watch your loach closely still because guppies are not as strong as loaches. Good luck!
 
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