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For about the last 6 months I have been trying to psych myself up to catch my tangs to move them to another aquarium while I re-do my aiptasia hell-hole. The receiving aquarium is now lush with grape caulerpa, their favorite meal, and all I have to do is catch them and move them. They have been in their current home for about 7 years. I've been looking forward to doing this like a stage 4B metastatic brain tumor.

So today I decided to try feeding them out of a fish net. Long story short -- I netted my purple tang with almost no problem. The blue tang got the hint though, so I think catching this guy is going to be more of an effort.

Are there any good tricks to catching fish without ripping a whole tank apart? (I am going to rip this one apart anyway, but if I can do it in small stages, it will make my life easier.)
 
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I have used those clear plastic "Fish Trap" tubes with much success over the years. Tangs are generally pretty nosey and the lure of the bait that you put in the trap is generally more than they can resist.

Most LFS's will loan them out too.

Louey
 

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