Catching damsel

[Reef lover24]

My damsel is picking at my hammer coral and its starting to shrivel up.. Also starting to pick at my acans. I need this guy gone. Have tried different things and I just cannot catch him. Tried putting food in a net and hes the only one who wont swim into the net. Tried cutting a slit in a water bottle putting food in there and he just pecks at the bottle. Will not go near fish traps either. The guy is a smart little sucker but I can't have him start killing my corals. Need him gone ASAP. Anyone have any ideas on what to do? Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Reef lover24]

No ideas?

 

[Junbug]

It took me forever, I had six of them.. There such a nuisance at times.. I used a fish trap, I put a chunk of shrimp inside the box.. I just got one sneaky one left.

 

[Jakef150]

Remove rocks and catch it with big net.

Try use soda trap trick ?

I did it. Removed rocks and put it in bucket of 5gal and try hurry to catch it, took me under a minute
My tank is 29 so it's small

Jake

 

[Clink51]

havent had to do this with my SW but when i had cichlids, i would wait for 2 hours after lights out. use a red flashlight, as they can see it, use a net and very slowly snatch em up. worth a shot... or you can just tear down the tank lol

 

[Reef lover24]

Lol. I got a 57g tank with over 60lbs of rock and also got a lot of corals so tearing down the tank is defineately not going to happen. I have tried different things and he just knows I am after him. Lucky I got the other two out that I had but this guy just eludes everything...


The soda can trick? Whats that?

 

[BFITZ06]

i removed the rocks to get them out of my old tank. i tried the soda bottle trap it works was able to get an angel out without messing anything up in my tank .
youtube soda bottle fish trap

 

[Reef lover24]

UPDATE. Did the soda bottle trick and within 20 mins I caught the little pest, as well has two of my other fish lol but I took them out put them back in the tank and the damsel is gone. Thanks.

 

[BuGG]

Nice!! I used the same soda bottle trap on a bully angelfish. Very satisfying after catching it within minutes of placing the trap. I had to starve the fish first for a couple of days though.

 

[Reef lover24]

Yeah I fed them last night and figured I would give it a shot this afternoon.. He was tempted and went right in after the pellets. Glad hes out, now hopefully my hammer comes back after having him been pecking at it.