dngspot
Premium Member
After making a large mistake and buying this guy it was soon discovered that he will move rocks 3 inches plus. I tried the net, food baiting and waiting until he was sleeping. Both net and food methods, couldn't move the net fast enough and the little sucker was gone. I simply could not find the guy when he was sleeping. My tank is a 150 gallon with 350 lbs of rock. I have enough trouble finding a dead fish much less one that is sleeping.
So I thought I could build a trap. I really did not think that it was going to work, but it did! Not only once but twice this wrasse entered the trap. It did not take him long to discover that the way in is the way out. But with a strategic location of the food, I was faster than him. I put the food at the base of the funnel, so that it is wedged between the cone and the funnel. This forces the fish to go under the funnel and he can not escape very quickly. I also hung food in a basket, in the middle of the tube to draw the fish inside. The whole thing is made of gutter netting from Home Depot. The reason the fish made it out, the first time, my hole in the funnel was too big. The cone is made by folding the netting into a funnel and then trimming the excess, just like you would with paper. The tube is 3 sections of netting and the back is a disk made from the same stuff. The whole thing is held together with zip ties, the smallest that I could find.
No more turned over corals in my tank, this beautiful, but pain in my butt, is outta here.
So I thought I could build a trap. I really did not think that it was going to work, but it did! Not only once but twice this wrasse entered the trap. It did not take him long to discover that the way in is the way out. But with a strategic location of the food, I was faster than him. I put the food at the base of the funnel, so that it is wedged between the cone and the funnel. This forces the fish to go under the funnel and he can not escape very quickly. I also hung food in a basket, in the middle of the tube to draw the fish inside. The whole thing is made of gutter netting from Home Depot. The reason the fish made it out, the first time, my hole in the funnel was too big. The cone is made by folding the netting into a funnel and then trimming the excess, just like you would with paper. The tube is 3 sections of netting and the back is a disk made from the same stuff. The whole thing is held together with zip ties, the smallest that I could find.
No more turned over corals in my tank, this beautiful, but pain in my butt, is outta here.
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