HELP save my yellow coris wrasse

[Leaky01ch]

Hello I purchased a yellow coris wrasse last week. after a couple days I had a strange feeling I would never see him because there was no sign what so ever. To my surprise while doing a water change he is down in my sump. My sump is under my tank with limited room. my attempts to catch him with a net havent worked, as he either goes somewhere I cant reach or burries himself in the sand. Any ideas how to get him out of there and back into my tank?

Thanks

 

[anbosu]

I would block off part of the sump with eggcrate (or something similar) to keep it in a smaller area, then use a net to herd it into another net.

 

[scrapz]

try putting a bowl of sand in the sump, he should bury himself in there when stressed.

thats how my wrasse is in my BB tank

 

[Leaky01ch]

He is to small and goes right through the eggcrate. Bowl of sand huh I think I will try that. Thanks.

 

[Merfin70]

Wrasses are generally pigs. Try the inverted bottle trap that folks use for shrimp. When I was trying to get my peppermint shrimp out, the only thing I reliably could catch in the bottle trap was my Tail Spot Wrasse. One smell of some mysis shrimp and in he went.