How do you capture your fish?

[aquaph8]

I have big PVC elbows in my QT and most of the time I can pick them up inside one but I also have a Tupperware container with holes drilled in the bottom. I quit using nets when my rabbit fish got stuck in one, I thought id never get him out. He's OK but it was a messed up situation for both of us.

 

[webslinger]

Use a #24 fish hook w/ a tiny piece of shrimp. I caught my chromis im 5 seconds. I tried everything else short of ripping my tank apart to catch him. He is now happily living in a friends tank.

 

[Betta132]

Bottle trap design. It'll catch most fish as long as they can fit through the lid hole. I've had it catch gobies, a damsel, a blenny, shrimp, and bottom-dwelling snails in my saltwater tank. In my freshwater tank, it can catch most mid-to-bottom level fish if you don't feed them for a day and then put their favorite food in it. You'll probably catch a few extras.

 

[tonymission]

I use this one.
Believe it's made by Aquarium systems if I remember correctly.

Fish seem not to see it coming and it's smoother on their skin especially after shipping and damaged slime coats...

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[Reeferz412]

I hand feed my fish, so they are pretty accustomed to my hands in the tank in general. I carry a large net in the other hand and get it as close as i can to the surface of the water. I then feed, and the fish comes to me. Lightning quick dive of the net scoops up the fish. So far, that has worked every time.

 

[Bernie21]

use an empty water bottle and cut out the top and invert it so i creates a tube for them to go in and have trouble getting out

I had to get a dotty back out. Catching with a net is near impossible.
I cut a water bottle in half then flipped the top upside down so that the brim you drink out of was in near the bottom of the bottle. Then I put fish food in the bottom and put the bottle infront of his fav hiding spot. 10 min later I came back and he was stuck in it.

Bottle trap design. It'll catch most fish as long as they can fit through the lid hole. I've had it catch gobies, a damsel, a blenny, shrimp, and bottom-dwelling snails in my saltwater tank. In my freshwater tank, it can catch most mid-to-bottom level fish if you don't feed them for a day and then put their favorite food in it. You'll probably catch a few extras.

Im trying to get a pygmy whitetail out to move it to another tank. Ive tried the net thing, short of destroying my tank, that wont work. NOw, Im trying this custom water bottle trapand it doesnt seem to be going so well. Ive had 4 other fish I dont want in there go in and get stuck. And the fish I do want in there wants no part of going in there.

 

[Joe0813]

I dont think you are supposed to even QT a mandarin

 

[shah1]

For my fish i bought a trap from Bulk reef supply and i put food in the trap eventually the fish will go in there and you have to pull a string very easy

 

[Paul B]

I would use a net but basically anything I put in my tank stays in there until it does, hopefully in 20 years. If something gets to big I have a fish trap but sometimes I have to trap all the fish to get the one I want. I also have used a tiny fish hook

 

[Bernie21]

The lil bugger, finally swam in to the inverted bottle trap today after almost a week and I pulled it up. Almost all my other fish swam in there before this guy finally did. I could of caught all the others ones if I wanted. Patience, patience, patience. Bigger fish or fish that get too big never really are the problem, its usually the tiny ones that are the impossible to catch, so make sure you want those before you add them.

 

[evelynmancuso]

nice, i have not captured yet,but will surely try after reading this article

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[prickles]

you always catch everything else first in the trap. It's a law of nature I think.