Fish Trap

[timrandlerv10]

does anybody have a fish trap i could borrow/buy/rent/lease?

I have to get my chromis out of the tank, and they're not cooperating...the GSM's are easy--come back at 8pm when they are in the anemones and pull out the whole nem


thanks,

tim

 

[H@rry]

Have you tried the coke bottle with the "neck" end cut off and turned around and stuck back in the other part of the bottle? Punch a few holes in it to allow for circulation and bait it with a piece of shrimp. That may work or may not. You might catch everything in the tank before you catch the fish you want.

Now, a surefire way to do it that sounds much harder and longer than it really takes:

1. Get however many rubbermaid tubs it will take to hold all your water.
2. Create a depression in your sandbed so it is the lowest place in your tank.
3. Start siphoning the water into the tubs until the fish "takes refuge" in the depression.
4. Remove the fish.
5. Put a piece of plastic tubing on a powerhead and pump the water back in.

I'll bet in 15 - 20 minutes you'll be through with the whole thing without moving any corals or rock. I've drained my tanks several times. The fish get real easy to catch when the water gets 1/2 inch deep!

 

[timrandlerv10]

...BTAs, mushrooms, zoos--no problems being dry for a few minutes?

 

[H@rry]

Nope, they'll slime up and be fine. If you get nervous you can get a cup and pour water over them while all this is going on. I remember having stuff out of the water for 30 minutes or so. When you put the water back in they'll slime up pretty bad but they'll be fine.

 

[alittlephishy]

I'm in the middle of building an acrylic fish trap with a sliding door. I have a pygmy angel that might get evicted.

H@rry I like that Idea better since my total volume is about 60 gallons and I have a couple of barrels to get it done with. Thanks for the Idea!!

 

[8BALL_99]

If you can get the other fish out.. I'd do the coke bottle for the chromis.. Its very easy. Chromis are small so they are easy to catch this way..

FWIW H@rry is right about the other method also.. Heck when I get a wild hair and do Large water changes. Several of my corals in the very top of the tank get exposed to the air for atleast 10 mins or so. I'm sure much longer sometimes. I figure its just low tide..

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Make sure you have no low spots inside the rock structure before you try the tank draining method. I created big caves inside my rock work and my fish hid under a big rock that rested on the glass. I was amazed how my full size yellow foxface can hide under such narrow space :eek2: I ended up getting every rock out before I caught the marauder. :furious:

Tomoko

 

[timrandlerv10]

well i will be using my quiet one 3000, some hose, and a 55gal rubbermaid. watch out kids, i've got toys!

hopefully everybody comes out at once...two nems and six fish...but we'll see

 

[timrandlerv10]

empty and capture went fairly well, but one small hitch--when i was herding an errant chromis from behind a rock in his one inch of water, the two maroons bolted and went right into the net.

i grabbed them through the net so there could be no thrashing, put them in the water, and extracted them as carefully as possible--pure luck that there was no injury. lesson learned.