Yellow Candy Hogfish

[jlogano22]

Mine has recently become a little BLANK and I'm trying to catch it.....any tips? I'm
Not going to destroy and rear apart the tank to get him but everything I'm trying isn't working.....

 

[CoralsAddiction]

They usually sleep in live rock. Just stake it out at night and pull the rock out. You obviously going to need a bucket with water from your tank to dip it into and get the hogfish out of the rock hole

 

[RadReefer]

I had the same issue with mine and just trapped it last week. He killed an Allen's damsel and a cleaner shrimp and was terrorizing basically everyone else. I used a fish trap and within about 5 min he was the first fish in. They are bold fish and with an acrylic trap I don't see it taking too long before he is caught.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Or even an $8 specimen container with food at the bottom

 

[kleach]

I just caught my 6 line with a soda bottle trap. Took him 10 minutes to get in there, but only because he took a few minutes to find the hole. Cost nothing to make and got him in 10 minutes.

I did leave it in the tank for about 3 days before putting food in it just so everyone got used to it being there.