Catching fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

90reefkepr

90reefkepr

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I need to catch 3 fish although i think it is impossible.
Has anyone ever caught 3 chalk basslets in a reef tank. because i have no clue what to do becuase im givving them to my LFS because they're too aggressive when they feed and they ate my peepermint shrimp.
I also want to get rid of them soon because my cleaner shrimp about to lay eggs.
 
organism

organism

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you can either use a fish trap or just take out all of your lr and catch them like that, sometimes it's a last resort thing you're gonna need to do...
also, I doubt your cleaner shrimp's eggs will fully grow out into shrimp, since it's very hard to get those conditions in the tank, usually they just become coral and fish food...
 
jobob

jobob

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fish trap or take out the lr. u can try to catch them at night after the lights r out. good luck it took me to rip apart my tank to get the fish
 
himandher

himandher

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usually you have to take out the live rock, but a few times I have been able to make it a little easier, I went to walmart and bought some of that cheap plastic craft netting, it is called plastic canvas. I then attached pieces so that they were the same width as my tank, and then wedge it in the tank on one side so I only have to remove a few pieces of the live rock. It usually works, but ya gotta chase them over there.
Good luck.
 
golfish

golfish

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I've caught fish using very small hooks (size 28 I think) If these are the only fish then is should work ok. I'm working on catching all my fish right now uisng a 2 liter plastic bottle. I riged it so the flap closes when I lift the line tied to it. I'm not sure how this is going to work but I figure its work a try.
 
na827

na827

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This is what i did when i had to take a mean fish out of my tank. Close to bed time for the fish i turned off the lights while watched where they went for the night. In my case the fish hide inside a piece of live rock. I came back an hour later with a flashlight and saw that he was still there so i got my net ready and just pulled the whole rock out and put the net right under it. When he jumped out i had him. After a week of trying to catch it the normal way, this was really quick.
Hopefully your fish is like mine was so you can give it a try.:joy:
 
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