Keyhole Limpet help...

[gREEF stricken]

So I started with one or two from a friend, and now I have about a dozen. I have a couple friends who would like to buy one or two but I am not certain how to capture them? Does anyone have any tips or tricks to catch these guys? I've very rarely find them on the glass or of course I would use a sharp razor blade, they are usually on LR...

thx

GS

 

[cloak]

Just pick & choose your battles IMO. It would suck to give away or to sell a damaged limpet to somebody due to removal tactics, as opposed to sliding them right off the glass with ease. (patience) GL.

 

[Betta132]

You could try putting food in the tank that they like and waiting for them to crawl onto it. Veggies might be worth a go. Or grow a bunch of algae on a large shell or a tiny rock and place it in as bait?
Alternately, put something all over the rockwork that you don't really want (rubble, shells, bits of slate, etc) and wait for a limpet to crawl onto one.
Or just negotiate the price for a limpet plus whatever small bit of rock it happens to be on at the time. I don't think it's possible to pry a limpet off of rockwork without injuring it, they're made to stay fastened down against everything.