Smart fish, dumb keeper needs your help!

Awibrandy · 01-30-2008, 12:13 PM

Hi guys/gals, I need some help catching my engineer neon gobie! I did the bottle trap thing, and actually caught him 2 days ago. Stupid me accidently set him loose, now he is not going in the bottle. What to do short of taking my tank apart? I have the bottle pointed into his cave for the past two days, and nothing.

WLDSHARK · 01-30-2008, 12:27 PM

Do not feed for a day or two... and re use the bottle with food...

Awibrandy · 01-30-2008, 12:54 PM

Thanks WLDSHARK! Hopefully he'll go back in today.

Awibrandy · 01-30-2008, 06:11 PM

Any thoughts, recommendations? The starfish are/is stealing the bait.

h20 freak · 01-30-2008, 10:06 PM

Get a harlequin? lol jk,ummm just try when the starfish are not in that part of the tank.

**KathyC** · 01-30-2008, 10:16 PM

Use 2 bottles & double your chances?
Oh, and if you catch a star..do make a wish before you let it go

tunicata · 01-30-2008, 10:17 PM

aw that was cute...

01-30-2008, 10:06 PM	#5
h20 freak Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: PA =( Posts: 520 Reefer Ratings: (0) Friends: (0)	Get a harlequin? lol jk,ummm just try when the starfish are not in that part of the tank. __________________ tank specs 60 gal 4ft long,1 ft wide,2 ft tall 10 gal fuge 2135 gph total w.o return cpr sr3 skimmer Coralife aqualight 48"130 watts 70+pounds Lr(lost count after a while lol) Fish:Tomini surgeon fish, 2 occelaris clowns, 1 blue-side fairy wrasse, black combtooth blenny. Inverts: scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp,One pink pincushion urchin,snails,and One green brittle star corals: toadstool leather, finger leather, frags:shroom,xenia,and palys one step at a time.....

01-30-2008, 10:16 PM	#6
KathyC Rafflemeister Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Barnum Island Posts: 4,710 Reefer Ratings: (80) Friends: (53)	Use 2 bottles & double your chances? Oh, and if you catch a star..do make a wish before you let it go __________________ Don't just treat the symptom, remedy the cause!

01-30-2008, 10:17 PM	#7
tunicata Tunicate Tamer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Newark, NJ Posts: 451 Reefer Ratings: (16) Friends: (2)	aw that was cute... __________________ I don't know how I thought I could leave this hobby...prepare for the rebirth

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01-30-2008, 12:27 PM	#2
WLDSHARK Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: MIAMI, FLORIDA Posts: 12 Reefer Ratings: (0) Friends: (0)	Do not feed for a day or two... and re use the bottle with food...