What is the best way to catch my 2 sick Domino Damsels

[brwneyedangel82]

I have two sick domino damsels or I think they're sick. they have white patches all over their body and they're tails are falling apart. I have 4 other fish in my tank and if these two damsels are sick I don't want the other fish to get sick, so I want to remove them and quarantine them.

But every time I try to catch them they run and hide in my live rock.
Does anyone have some kind of trick I can do to get them so they don't infect the rest of my tank. Will maybe turning out the lights help or could I remove some of the live rock so they can't swim underneath it or in between it to catch them and place the live rock back in.

I'm thinking of either quarantine them or just taking them back to the store I got them at. Well either way I'll have to quarantine them, but any advice will be helpful thanks.

 

[HUNTER1]

The only luck I had catching damsels was taking all the live rocks. Some will suggest inverted soda bottle, putting food in a fish net which may take a while or trap box. If you can take the rocks out that would be the fastest way but can mess up your scape.

 

[OffDaHook]

I caught all my Damsels at night.

 

[justthewife]

I made an inverted soda bottle to trap my fish. You have to have bait that they love and be paitent

 

[brwneyedangel82]

Okay I will definitely try the bait one, if all else fails thanks guys. I'm going to try to catch them at night. They both have their favorite sleeping spot, by the rocks, so I'll try to catch them this way but will wait till later on tonight.

 

[cloak]

Check this out.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-06/sp/index.php

The High & Dry method outlined in this link has always served me well btw. GL.

 

[spieszak]

I don't know what disease/illness you are dealing with, but I'd suspect that whatever it is, you should consider moving all of your fish to QT to observe, regardless of the it being only the damsels showing signs. I only bring this up on a thread asking how to catch them in that if you are going to end up ripping up your display to catch them, now might be the time to get them all out, instead of having to go through it again at a later time....
So, it might be a good idea to get pictures and post a detailed thread over on the disease forum to see if that is warranted, as the folks there might be able to help you identify what you are battling.

 

[cderleth84]

I don't know what disease/illness you are dealing with, but I'd suspect that whatever it is, you should consider moving all of your fish to QT to observe, regardless of the it being only the damsels showing signs. I only bring this up on a thread asking how to catch them in that if you are going to end up ripping up your display to catch them, now might be the time to get them all out, instead of having to go through it again at a later time....
So, it might be a good idea to get pictures and post a detailed thread over on the disease forum to see if that is warranted, as the folks there might be able to help you identify what you are battling.

^Agreed^ if you see them with spots it could possibly be ich and the other fish has it as we'll but they're just not showing symptoms.

 

[Sk8r]

With fin deterioration, bacterial infection or fin-nipping is possible. If fuzzy patches, bacterial. If distinct sandlike grains of white, ich, a parasite. Treatments are not the same.