catching fish

[bongman420]

hey guys is there a good way to catch fish without destroying your rock work? like a trap or something? i need to know before i move all my rocks around and mess up my setup thanks

 

[albano]

Yes...fish traps are best...

 

[Nandez13]

I use the inverted bottle trap in the link below. I usually use a smaller, 20 oz bottle. Cut the openings based on the size of the fish you want to catch. Place a frozen cube of food inside, shut the flow off and place the bottle in an area that the fish typically goes near

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/fish_trap.php

 

[Cbutkos]

As wrong as this may sound, you could literally go fishing for him. I had to get a blue tang out of my tank, he would dive into the rock as soon as he saw the net and he wouldn't fit in a small bottle trap so I went to dicks and got the smallest fly fishing hook they had it was like a no. 20 or something with some 4 lb fishing line, stripped the feathers and stuff from the body, pressed down the barb so it wouldn't get stuck in the lip or anything and out a piece of mysis on it, on the second "cast" I had him in my hand and the hook popped out without even trying. Took all of about 20 seconds, and I feel like it was much less stressful for him than a half hour + of chasing him and pulling up rocks and all that. For a real small fish like an orchid dottyback I use a trap as mentioned above.

 

[Reef Reaper]

I used a large net. Maybe 8 or 10 inches and started feeding them with the net in the water. All the food goes into the net at feeding time. After a week or so, all the fishes started going into the net. The rest is simple. Good luck

 

[Dre]

Depending on the kind of fish, you can stun them with the display lights while they're sleeping. It's Worth a try...

 

[theMeat]

I used a large net. Maybe 8 or 10 inches and started feeding them with the net in the water. All the food goes into the net at feeding time. After a week or so, all the fishes started going into the net. The rest is simple. Good luck

This ^, or take out rock work
Have tried all kinds of traps. Caught plenty of snails, and fish i didn't want out.
A piece of plexy glass, the right size, trap them on an end or corner of tank away from rock work. Then get em in the net could work too.

 

[NYreefNoob]

gatoraide bottle has work 90% of the time for me over last 10 years

 

[Juano908]

This always worked for me, put some mysis shrimp in it and ocationaly use the pipette to make the mysis move inside the trap.

 

[bkstang]

Just recently, I was catching 2 demsels in my tank. I used the bottle trick and worked perfectly with the first demsel. The othe one probably saw how it worked and didn't want to swim into the bottle. I changed bottles, colors, etc. I spot fed my other fish so the demsel was hungry like hell and it still didn't want to swim into the bottle. After 3 weeks of trying I've decided to buy a fish trap and it took 10 min to catch it.
I still have this fish trap for sale if you want to buy it from me. This is small Sea Side Aquatics Fish Trap

 

[vashawn]

I did a diy but never posted it.
I took 2 piece pvs pipe tall enough to sink into the sand and hit the top water surface. I attached the net they use to cover an aquarium for fish wont jump out. attach the net to both piece with plastic straps. So u have a square net that basically folds. So basicaly u have a 2 pvc bar and the net in the middle.
Place it in a corner front of the tank so it looks like a triangle. wait a 30 mins so the fish can get comfortable with the net.
Place food in there. The net holes are so small the brine shrimp cant even come out.
When the fish u want come in to eat u can now close or draw the net closer to the glass so the cant move.
Ill post a pic later.
GL