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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2004renegade damselfish
Any suggestions as to how to catch a beaugregory damsel from a 100 gallon tank full of rock. Each time I'm nearly angry enough to start pulling out the rock I take a few deep breaths and think better of it. It is torturing his tankmates, all of which will willingly swim into a net if bribed with food - I even tried a bit of shrimp on a size 26 trout hook - He stole the bait!! Kevin A good lionfish or grouper for a day or two will easily solve that problem.... sorry, couldn't help it. =) I've often wondered how to extricate certain fish from an established reef system myself. There's the two net approach, but if they're deep down in a hole, the second net isn't going to help much. I've heard of people using a type of extractor (like the sludge extractor) where they would just put the end up to the hole and pull or vacuum the fish into the tube. One of the LFS uses this technique as a last resort. I'm not sure how dangerous it is to the fish or what the device actually looks like, but it could technically work. Justin > Any suggestions as to how to catch a beaugregory damsel from a 100 > gallon tank full of rock. Each time I'm nearly angry enough to start [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Kevin >A good lionfish or grouper for a day or two will easily solve that >problem.... You might think that, but I have a beaugregory that has avoided my grouper for two months now. He's quite fast. He didn't seem so smart hiding in the LR that got him in there, but one look at the grouper devouring silversides and he seems to have gotten a PHD! >sorry, couldn't help it. =) > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> >> Kevin Recently had a similar situation with a 3 stripe damsel. Luckily I had a bunch of gracillaria in the tank as cover and nutrient sink. Every time I put a net in the tank, the offending damsel would either hide in his favorite hole in the live rock (uncatchable) OR in the gracillaria bunch. Turns out that there are so many intertwined branches in the algae that I was able to scoop out the whole tangled mass, fish and all before he could escape. Once I chased the damsel into the algae mass it took less than 2 minutes to catch it. Buy a clump, it provides cover for microinverts, grows rapidly (removes lots of nitrates) and provides the added benefit of "easy" capture of smaller fish. Hope this helps, Tom Rhindress >>A good lionfish or grouper for a day or two will easily solve that >>problem.... [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >>> >>>Kevin I've heard of people using a wet/dry vac to suck out unwanted fish from their tanks. I prefer a less extreme way. I use a trap. It's made by UltraLife. It's basically an acrylic tube with a trap door that gets baited with food. The downside is you have to be patient & watch for the fish to go in there - then close the door. A while ago I was curious as to what this item was - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4309000106&ssPageName=ST RK:MEWA:IT It's a trap or an idea for a trap. I just was not interested enough to spend the $0.99 to find out what it actually is. If you do buy it post it & let us all know for the next time when we have a pesky fish that needs eviction. > Any suggestions as to how to catch a beaugregory damsel from a 100 > gallon tank full of rock. Each time I'm nearly angry enough to start [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Kevin >A while ago I was curious as to what this item was - > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4309000106&ssPageName=ST RK:MEWA:IT > It's a trap or an idea for a trap They sell you 'plans' for a trap. I've heard this involves a 2 liter soda bottle. Cut the top off and then place it back on the bottle inverted. From this <=] to this >=]. Also you'll need to cut the mouth of the bottle where the cap goes on to the size of your fish. ~John wait till a few hours after lights out... take an intense flashlight and find where this fish sleeps.. if its accessable with a net or your hand go for it ... you may be able to blind the fish with the light ( or with the help of someone else holding the light ) if not another option is try the fish hook till you get him ... or your local fish store may have a fish trap you can borrow or rent the latter is probabably the best in your case. just keep the fish you catch in the sump or another tank till you get the one your after > Any suggestions as to how to catch a beaugregory damsel from a 100 > gallon tank full of rock. Each time I'm nearly angry enough to start [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Kevin |
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