How do you trap Camel Shrimp?

[deowens]

We recently were coerced by our LFS to buy a couple of Camel Shrimp that are supposedly 100% reef safe. You can imagine our dissapoitment after checking out Reef Central on proper care to find out these little devils are a menace to a reef tank.

My question is, How do we trap these buggers without having to tear apart our tank or destroying them as we need to get a refund?? Any and all guidance would be appeciated.

Thanks, Earl

 

[Sk8r]

Put something delectable in a wine carafe angled so the smell reaches them. Stand by with a net ready to cap the end.

Alternate: coat your hand in cyclopeeze smell [not floating stuff they can eat] and see if they'll enter your hand. I've caught shrimp this way no few times.

 

[rustybucket145]

With a Shrimp fork of course. Get the Cocktail Sauce Ready!!!

 

[falconut]

I had to pull my tank apart to get mine out about 2 years ago when they started eating my leather. But I was able to get a bad peppermint shrimp out recently using food in a net and other net. It did take 3 days to catch him. From my experience with trying to catch them, they seam to learn alittle. The 1st try he went in the net, but after missing, he never went in, only stayed around the outside. So try multiple nets with food in 1 or the container method above. Good luck.

 

[MIKE NY]

place some meaty foods into a tall smooth sided glass and lean it against the rockwork over night......caught all my unwanted pests this way.

 

[dallascwbyz]

Borrow a friends moray

 

[fishhaven]

Your basic bottle trap. Cut the top off a 1 litre plastic water bottle at the shoulder. Turn the top around and insert into the bottle. You should be able to just wedge it in there. Bait it and The shrimp will be able to enter thru the funnel shaped end but won''t find his way back out.

 

[deowens]

Got he Camel Shrimp!

Got he Camel Shrimp!

Thanks to all who responded. We tried all but the Moray Eel and the shrimp fork. In the end we used a large diameter clear hose and sucked them right out into a waiting bucket. No harm to either of the shrimp! We drew gravity suction and then placed our thumb on the discharge of the hose and the suction end right up to the shrimp, release your thumb and WHOOSH, sucked them right out into a bucket. Worked very quick with no harm at all to the shrimp. The trick is to get them cornered in a rock and get the hose close to the shrimp, let the suction go and then they come right out.

Thanks again to all.

 

[Reeferhead]

Re: Got he Camel Shrimp!

Re: Got he Camel Shrimp!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7579623#post7579623 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by deowens
Thanks to all who responded. We tried all but the Moray Eel and the shrimp fork. In the end we used a large diameter clear hose and sucked them right out into a waiting bucket. No harm to either of the shrimp! We drew gravity suction and then placed our thumb on the discharge of the hose and the suction end right up to the shrimp, release your thumb and WHOOSH, sucked them right out into a bucket. Worked very quick with no harm at all to the shrimp. The trick is to get them cornered in a rock and get the hose close to the shrimp, let the suction go and then they come right out.

Thanks again to all.

Good idea, I'm going to try this!

 

[masonicman]

Throw a halk fish in your tank. They are reef safe, kool to watch and it will take care of your shrimp problem. Use caution with bottom dwelling gobies and blennies.

 

[Reeferhead]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11095735#post11095735 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by masonicman
Throw a halk fish in your tank. They are reef safe, kool to watch and it will take care of your shrimp problem. Use caution with bottom dwelling gobies and blennies.

That would work but I only want to get rid of one shrimp, a peppermint that is chewing on my new RBTA. I have 2 blood shrimp, a couple pistols, and a lot of crabs that I don't want to lose.

 

[masonicman]

Oh ok then that would be a bad idea

 

[Reeferhead]

Success! The coke bottle trick worked after all. I put it in last night and checked this morning... but nothing but nassarius snails. However, my wife just called, and we got the little bastage!