Let's get that fish out

[Saltwaterstart]

Hello again everyone!

Have a bit of a problem...

Unfortunately, my Coral Beauty turned a little rogue and picked apart a bubble, brain, and dognut coral in such a short period of time, I could not save them.

Now I need that little son of a gun out before he picks apart all of my Zoo's and other LPS's.

I've heard of Sk8r's drain the tank with a depression in the sand method and I like it, but unfortunately, I don't have the equipment to perform such a task.

My question is... what's the best way to get a dwarf angel out of a tank without ripping it apart?

 

[sps1-2-b]

I've caught many fishes with a clear plastic pitcher. I hover it near the top of the tank with nori clipped to the side. It takes a few hours (sometimes half a day) for the fishes to get comfortable with it to go in and eat the nori. Once the target fish is in I pick the pitcher up with a net over the opening.

My friend caught a flame angel by making his own fish trap. He glued pieces of acrylic together to form a small box and used zip ties as hinges for the lid. Then he used fishing line to close the lid while the trap is inside the tank.

 

[super stooge]

some good ideas in here you could try

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=6085950#post6085950

 

[danielc316]

my fish might be a little dumb, but i cought my flame angel and my other fish by getting some brime shrimmp in a net and going down as far as I can. they come right into the net and i just scoop them up i just laugh when i do this.

 

[crvz]

sometimes it's as easy as waiting to the middle of the night and scooping it out of the tank. do you usually see it settling in an easily accessible spot at night?

 

[Saltwaterstart]

It hides in the back of the rocks at night, and he isn't exactly a dumb fish.

I stick my hand in the tank to put some nori on a clip, and I don't see him until it's almost all gone. He shoots behind a large rock (22 lb'er) almost every time I stick my hand in the tank.

And Super Stooge-

I was looking for that link for a few hours on the search and I couldn't find it. Thanks for posting that
:beer:

 

[LisaJill]

I had to remove two fish from my tank; I just used the 2 litre bottle method. The nice part of that is that you don't have to put your hand in the tank; you just wait. It took my fish 3 days, but in they went. I finally got them in by placing the bottle over each of their holes respectively; they'd come out and right into the bottle before they knew the difference.

As a note - something I learned from a tropheus tank; you don't want anything in the tank that has only an entrance and no exit. The reason is that water can get trapped and get really nasty. I poked some holes in the bottom of the bottles when it turned out I'd need to leave them in there for awhile, which let the water flow through. The problem is then you need to have a big bag ready to go under the bottle, since the water will drain out when you try to pull it out with the fish. =)