Best way to catch a fish?

[ejordan]

I recently noticed that my new blue tang has somehow caught ich. I did not have a quarantine tank at the time, so I had a nanocube overnighted so that I could isolate him as soon as possible.

Now that I have the nanocube, and its all ready for him, I can't seem to catch him in my normal tank! As soon as the net hits the water, he's gone behind the rocks in a flash.

Its driving me absolutely bonkers.

Anyone have any tips for catching fish?

 

[Ti]

find where it sleeps and nab it at night

 

[ftnirishfan]

hook line and sinker

 

[mr pink floyd]

whatever yo udo dont do what petco does, ZAP EM

 

[otterpop510]

i used the jar method to catch a bunch of fish when i needed to rearrange my tanks. i took a snapple-like glass jar with a little wider opening and put it horizontally either on the rockwork or the sandbed depending on where the fish i wanted to catch hung out. sprayed some mysis shrimp in the jar.

didn't feed the fish for a couple days. within three days pretty much all the fish were trained to eat out of there. seemed that for a majority of the fish (with the exception of my pink-spotted shrimp goby), if they were inside eating and i walked over and put my hand in to upright the jar and take it out, the fish would lose sense of which way was out and i easily was able to take out fish.

for the goby, i had to tie a fishing line to the neck of the jar, and pull up that way for quicker 'uprighting' of jar.

worked for me with clowns, 6-line wrasse, blue tang, goby, damsels.. seemed much less stressful than the net method, and less slime/skin loss from the net too. however, my blue tang is still a juvenile, an adult may require a bigger opening jar/tube, maybe like a old skimmer/canister filter?

i thought it wouldn't work until i tried.. easiest way for me without messing up my tank..

 

[donfishy76]

wow, gr8 thinking

 

[otterpop510]

donfishy, saw the idea from another thread on rc, no use in reinventing the wheel.. though the fishing line was my improv when i was having a tough time with the goby (gobies have good sense of space!)

 

[Salamander]

Yellow panther martins for trout and purple worms for bass...


Try placing a net in the tank for a while when you feed to let it get used to it. THen one day after its comfortable with the net in the tank try to scoop'em up!

 

[donfishy76]

Try placing a net in the tank for a while when you feed to let it get used to it. THen one day after its comfortable with the net in the tank try to scoop'em up!

tried that with a flame hawk, i swear it was laughing at me the whole time

still havent caught it and its been 6 months

maybe i will try the glass bottle thing

:rollface:

 

[NorthernCF]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6821150#post6821150 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mr pink floyd
whatever yo udo dont do what petco does, ZAP EM

 

[Salamander]

It worked for me catching my shrimp prior to a interceptor dose.

Maybe a hook and line might work....Hmmmm how much do you like this tang?