Found Nemo?

So I've just been going through my usual cleaning routine on my cold water
tank - water change, using the extracted water to rinse the filter media
with. As usual, left the (internal) filter motor churning away while I did
the rinsing.

Came back to the tank, and couldn't persuade the filter to work. After much
head scratching and dis-assembly, finally came to the conclusion that
something was blocking the final output stage.

So I struggled to find anything that would fit, and in the end used a cotton
wool bud to bore out the final output tube. My worst fears were founded,
and after quite a bit of fiddling with the cotton bud, I managed to extract
a fish (Hong Kong plec*, tiny thing) that I figured had perished and somehow
got sucked through the filter...this must have taken at least 10 minutes
with no water flow through the filter.

The next thing, the fish starts to move slowly in my fingers...so I dropped
him in the tank, and he was off like a flash, no doubt cursing me in
fish-ese. Do I re-name him Nemo then?

Lesson - take the filter motor out of the tank in future...

Paul