damn damsel!!

[Markymarklar]

anyone know how to get damsels out of a tank without tearing down the entire setup? these two damsels i have are the bullies of the tank and i want them out. i've tried a couple homemade traps with food but the fish seem to know what i'm up to. has anyone ever been sucessful? if so i would love to hear how you did it. any suggestions are welcome.

 

[liquid]

I'm not sure you want to go to this extreme, but I've heard people have been able to get real troublesome fish out of their tanks by using a very fine fish hook and bait.

Or, use a really large net and gang up on them using more than one person.

Shane

 

[Markymarklar]

i've tried nets. the fish just hide in the rock where i can't get to them.

 

[beerbaron]

if its a voracious eater here is what you do. get some frozen food, fomula one or two works good, thaw it, pierce it withe a feeding prong and re freeze it. then take a tupperware containter and submerge it 1" below the waterlevel rightside up. put dangle the food above the container, and the fish should go after it. lift the container and viola. it works better with holes in the tupperware, cuz it will let the water through.
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[Markymarklar]

that's very similar to what i've already tried. they are always hungry, but when i'm next to the tank, with food or not, they will hid in the rock. i've even tried tying string to the strainer and gone out of the room. the food is right above the strainer. i think they are just scared of the strainer. they wont go near it whether i'm in the room or not or whether there's food above it or not.

 

[Kevin Day]

no offense to you, my girlfriend and i are sitting here lauging to death over this. we had a 3 stripe damsel that we used for cycling. we eventually started to build the reef and just kind of forgot about the fish. about two months in we decided the fish HAD to go. we tried everything we could think of to no avail. eventually most of the rock had to be removed to get the sum biatch out. good way to spend a saturday afternoon.

good luck.

 

[Carpentersreef]

I've learned that an effective way to remove fish from a reef tank is to corner them in a couple pieces of live rock and cut a piece of eggcrate that just fits inside your aquarium to act like a wall. You can maybe place the couple of LR pieces to one side. Once the fish are hiding in the separate LR pieces, place the eggcrate in the tank, isolating them from the rest of the tank. Lift up the couple pieces of LR, and they are trapped and easily nettable. I use this method on my 204g, and it works great.

Mitch

 

[Vixyswillie]

eventually most of the rock had to be removed to get the sum biatch out. good way to spend a saturday afternoon.

Oh yeah. May as well give 'er up and plan now for your day of mayhem. You'll have PLENTY of enjoyment just trying to catch those little turds in an empty tank with a half inch of water! :?

 

[beerbaron]

ok try this, this worked for me with a few shy camelback shrimp. take a long shallow tupperware container, and wiegh one end of it down with a rock or something. tye a piece of tubing to it and use that to drop the trap like a trap door. the bigger the piece of lr, the bonger you can make the tubing. then, be patient. eventually they will get used to the trap, and not shy from it.
HTH
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