What can I do to stop my fish from killing himself?

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So I have a fish that kind of looks like this:

http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Botia_kubotai.php

He is basically about 2 inches long, skinny, and loves to swim up into my whisper filter and get stuck in it. This has just started happening the last couple of days. I will see him jumping up into the filter where the clean water is running out. He'll swim up so far that he'll be hanging half out of the filter near the cartridge or he'll completely submerge himself between the cartridge and the wall of the filter and I can't even see him. I woke up this morning and couldn't find him. I pulled the filter out and out he comes... Does he have a death wish? I have been putting the leftover plastic from the tank cover in strategic spots on the filter to get him to stop, but it hasn't worked 100%. I think I have a good solution now, but I just would love to hear any comments from anyone on this. Do they like to swim upstream or something????
 
we had to put a pair of tights over our filter so you could try that, ours did the same as yours......good luck
 
I think what you loach is doin is trying to swim upstream or tying to fight the current. Can you buy a power hear or one of those things that go on the bottom and pump out water so your loach has some current.
 
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