How do you catch a sand-dwelling wrasse?
How do you catch a sand-dwelling wrasse?
One scoop at a time.
1) Wait until after lights out on the 30g.
2) Direct female clownfish into specimen container.
3) Transfer female clownfish into tank bucket.
4) Direct male clownfish into specimen container.
5) Transfer male clownfish into tank bucket.
6) Pull out rock that one of the firefish lives in and shake in tank bucket until firefish leaves rock.
7) Ignore dirty look from sleep-disturbed firefish.
8) Place tank bucket with fish next to 75g and start acclimation drip
9) Pull rock out of 30g and place into second tank bucket
10) Transfer rock into 75g
11) Panic while second firefish flops around in the quarter inch of water on bottom of bucket
12) Drip water all over the floor between the two tanks trying to get more water into the bucket
13) Spend 10 minutes trying to get a 2" fish into specimen container
14) Transfer second firefish into acclimation bucket
15) Remove remaining rock from 30g and place in 75g
16) Arrange rock in 75g
17) Clean up puddles of water from floor and stand
18) Transfer clownfish and firefish to 75g.
19) Remove sand from 30g and transfer to tank bucket
a) scoop sand from tank with specimen container to short tank bucket
b) scoop sand out of short bucket into tall bucket
c) repeat
20) Look in cloudy 30g and wonder "WTH, I know the wrasse isn't in the buckets and there can't be but a 1/4" of sand left anywhere"
21) Dig in tank stuff for net.
22) Sweep up remaining sand into net.
23) Scoop up last pile of sand and ONE YELLOW WRASSE.
24) Transfer wrasse to the specimen container
25) Transfer wrasse to 75g
Yup, I got all 5 fish into the 75g. Took me the whole sum total of 20 minutes to get the clownfish and firefish but took me almost an hour to catch that one wrasse. The 30g is so cloudy I can't see 2" into it but the only thing left in it is the sand.
This morning, I moved the powerheads into the back corners. They look 10X better but i need to figure out something for between the two islands. Maybe some of the smaller rocks in the sand.
