Collecting Your Own Fish
- Thread starter Slummies
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Okay, well since i started this thread, ill go first!
Below is my "Bucket Pic" from a recent dive (free dive). These fish were on a reef at about 6m deep and the Flame Back Angel took me 2 hours to catch! What an escape artist.
Fish are as follows:
1x Flame Back Angel or Jumping Bean where i am from (Centropyge Acanthops)
1x "Kleinii Butterfly" (Chaetdon Kleinii)
1x "Old Woman Angel" Pomocanthus Rhomboides
1x "Cleaner Wrasse" (Lamroides Dimidiatus)
3x Atnhias (Pseudoanthias Squamipinnis)
Where i am from, we only get Juvi fish that have been brought down from Durban on the warm current.
Below is my "Bucket Pic" from a recent dive (free dive). These fish were on a reef at about 6m deep and the Flame Back Angel took me 2 hours to catch! What an escape artist.
Fish are as follows:
1x Flame Back Angel or Jumping Bean where i am from (Centropyge Acanthops)
1x "Kleinii Butterfly" (Chaetdon Kleinii)
1x "Old Woman Angel" Pomocanthus Rhomboides
1x "Cleaner Wrasse" (Lamroides Dimidiatus)
3x Atnhias (Pseudoanthias Squamipinnis)
Where i am from, we only get Juvi fish that have been brought down from Durban on the warm current.
Saltliquid
New member
Nice catches mate, I do a lot of it myself, top sport to add to the hobby hey.
Thank you. I went again today, but decided to shoot fish for supper instead. i did get a cool video of a rare butterfly ill upload later!
Soo... I dived off East London today and came across a stunning pair of Chaetodon Marleyi. You wont find this "rare" butterfly fish in your LFS. Here is a video from today of a pair:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM6d3HHiGJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM6d3HHiGJk
Saltliquid
New member
Yeh mate, all of these are what I get over here.
http://southeastqueenslandm.aforumfree.com/f20-local-marine-life-found-in-seq-and-information
I caught this beautiful Gem Tang back in 2010.. still alive today.
In the Bucket:
Full story:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1856712
In the Bucket:
Full story:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1856712
Booboobear259
New member
I've tried my hand at it and I have caught all kinds of fish for all kinds of different tanks. Mostly wrasses due to the trick to catching them that I found.
r-balljunkie
Registered Reefer
i collect. lotsa fun to go out and get what you were set on.....a new facet to the hobby.
Saltliquid
New member
I caught this beautiful Gem Tang back in 2010.. still alive today.
In the Bucket:
Full story:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1856712
very cute
Saltliquid
New member
This is my fav, I caught it some years back and with a lot of work it survived the cyclone Oswald power outage and a prolonged attack in my bottom tank from the conspic and the imperator.
This is it when I collected it on the same day with its very young mimic pyroferus tang.
This is it when I collected it on the same day with its very young mimic pyroferus tang.
Saltliquid
New member
Here are a couple of latz a mate wanted along with a couple of other specific fish for his display tank, the latz were for his breeding program. This sort of thing is good; it keeps me from getting bored due to not doing much collecting any more. Latz are good like this, there are four pairs there and once in the tubs they pair up again with original mate and sit off to one side, no aggression at all with thess guys, top fish and on eof my favs of our common local fish.
tkeracer619
New member
Thats awesome the gem is still kickin. I remember when you caught it 
Great fish guys. WOW! this specimens are truly amazing!
Yeah! Been a very very long time I believe it is not living in a tank in Johannesburg. They system it was in closed down and he fish needed a home
Thats awesome the gem is still kickin. I remember when you caught it
Yeah! Been a very very long time
I believe it is not living in a tank in Johannesburg. They system it was in closed down and he fish needed a home
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