need help catching my snow flake
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DragonMorayEels
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If you want to do that, that you tear your tank apart to try and net the eel, you could if you want a mess of it.
In any event your a choice and no matter what, you be needing a load of patience for I guess this is a reef tank and I no idea to how well stock it be at this time.
Anyway, you can try a PVC pipe depending on the size of the eel you be needing twice the pipe and you can find some way to closed one end and I would have to think that using a net and rubberband would do well enough for you put a crab or shrimp to what it is your feeding this eel and place it at the closed end.
You then place this pipe trap as close to the eels lair and then from there it is a waiting game and if nothing happens one day, you try again the next but you have to be quick when the eel goes inside, but do not stay on top the tank, sit back and relax.
Give it time to go in that you can pull on the string that is near the open end and quickie, not rough like pull the pipe up to the water surface and then you caught your eel.
There are pipe traps designed that both ends could be closed up to catch your eel, I am sure that someone here would know how you can best do that.
Buddy
In any event your a choice and no matter what, you be needing a load of patience for I guess this is a reef tank and I no idea to how well stock it be at this time.
Anyway, you can try a PVC pipe depending on the size of the eel you be needing twice the pipe and you can find some way to closed one end and I would have to think that using a net and rubberband would do well enough for you put a crab or shrimp to what it is your feeding this eel and place it at the closed end.
You then place this pipe trap as close to the eels lair and then from there it is a waiting game and if nothing happens one day, you try again the next but you have to be quick when the eel goes inside, but do not stay on top the tank, sit back and relax.
Give it time to go in that you can pull on the string that is near the open end and quickie, not rough like pull the pipe up to the water surface and then you caught your eel.
There are pipe traps designed that both ends could be closed up to catch your eel, I am sure that someone here would know how you can best do that.
Buddy
thanx fot the advice. the ell is about 20" .i feed him silver side and shrimp but latly he has been liking lawnmower blennies. i will put a piece of pvc with a cap at one end in the tank for a couple of days. so he gets used to it . then i will start to bait him. i think this will work.
whatcaneyedo
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My eel comes right out of the rocks and swims around when i feed... if yours does the same you could maybe net it with a really large net.
DragonMorayEels
In Memoriam
whatcaneyedo, In what you say makes it sound so easy like, but you be pretty much surprised to just how difficulty it may be for an eel can move in reverse just as fast it can move forwards.
It`s like that time I went out to fish world to recollect my dragon eels after their tanks where moved into my new home that at the store they had something to hide a little, but nothing much.
People been watching the eels since they been there at the store and wanted to watch me take them out.
Some the people that was looking on started saying, net them from the head, I catch them faster and just as I am saying here, I told them and some I think not thought it as so.
But I had the eel out in less then five minutes>
But then again there where not much LR>
It`s like that time I went out to fish world to recollect my dragon eels after their tanks where moved into my new home that at the store they had something to hide a little, but nothing much.
People been watching the eels since they been there at the store and wanted to watch me take them out.
Some the people that was looking on started saying, net them from the head, I catch them faster and just as I am saying here, I told them and some I think not thought it as so.
But I had the eel out in less then five minutes>
But then again there where not much LR>
