Catching my Royal Gramma

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yoshii

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My royal gramma certainly thinks he's royal. First in the tank(55gal) he claimed ALL the rockwork, and for a long time, my two clowns always stayed in one corner of the tank, not daring to go near the rock. Recently, I changed the rockwork to be more spread out with two "groups" of rocks, and that seems to help with the clowns a bit. Also, when I redid the rocks, I introduced a 2" bannerfish in the tank. Recently, I have noticed little groups of scales on the bannerfish to be a lighter color and some fins have signs of aggression. The other fish in the tank are:2 occellaris clowns, 1 yellow clown goby and the royal gramma.
So, since all that's in my quarantine tank (10gal) are some corals and snails, I want to get your methods on how to trap my gramma and get him into the quarantine for a while, then maybe mess with the rocks more, and reintroduce him into the tank. Or will this not help with the aggression at all? Any other advise?
I've heard of using a 2liter soda bottle for a simple DIY trap, but I don't have one currently. Anything else I can use?
Thanks,
Christina
 
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yoshii

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Ha! I found an empty Sprite 2Liter bottle, but it's tinted green, would that still work?
 
rlablan

rlablan

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I usually rent a fish trap from an LFS. It's made of clear plexi and a piece of PVC pipe. There is a "trap" door on it and you hold the door open with clear fishing line. You wait for the fish to swim into the box and then drop the door. It's very simple and really painless. sometimes it'll take an hour to catch a fish, sometimes 10 minutes.
I am sure that you could buy one of these contraptions too, or make one. It would be a very handy thing to keep around... We have all had fish that we need to catch.
Good luck
 
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yoshii

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Originally Posted by rlablan
http:///forum/post/3280008
I usually rent a fish trap from an LFS. It's made of clear plexi and a piece of PVC pipe. There is a "trap" door on it and you hold the door open with clear fishing line. You wait for the fish to swim into the box and then drop the door. It's very simple and really painless. sometimes it'll take an hour to catch a fish, sometimes 10 minutes.
I am sure that you could buy one of these contraptions too, or make one. It would be a very handy thing to keep around... We have all had fish that we need to catch.
Good luck
Thank you! :) I'm wondering if clear is better or not since my royal gramma likes darker spaces, and little tunnels and spaces in between the rocks, would a colored tube seem more like a safe place for him?
 
rlablan

rlablan

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I have never personally had any issue but my mom has a fully grown one, she bought him that big and he is in a 30 gal nano. He is a nasty little bugger. He thinks the whole tank is his. Lol
The whole point of the fish trap is that it is completely clear. You put the food in and then the fish goes in but doesn't realize that it's swimming into anything. Then you close the door and remove the pest. Very easy.
 
florida joe

florida joe

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if all else fails i can fly out to AZ and look at your RG for a while but that would put and end to him or her
 
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yoshii

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Originally Posted by rlablan
http:///forum/post/3280039
I have never personally had any issue but my mom has a fully grown one, she bought him that big and he is in a 30 gal nano. He is a nasty little bugger. He thinks the whole tank is his. Lol
The whole point of the fish trap is that it is completely clear. You put the food in and then the fish goes in but doesn't realize that it's swimming into anything. Then you close the door and remove the pest. Very easy.
I bought him at about 2-2 1/2" and now he's about 3", I think he's full grown.
Well, his favorite food is pellets, but he doesn't like them once they sink and fall on the substrate/rock/bottom of trap.
Originally Posted by florida joe
http:///forum/post/3280048
if all else fails i can fly out to AZ and look at your RG for a while but that would put and end to him or her
I didn't say I wanted all my fish dead! (and actually you would have to fly to CA
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yoshii

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Oh, last night, I made a quick little trap with a water bottle I found, but the only things I caught were 3 hermits, who then ate all the food in the trap. My gramma just swims over the trap like he doesn't care about the obvious food inside(which my other fish keep trying to get) and goes in his little cave. I tried a net this morning, and he is the only fish in the tank that hides when I get the net out. -__-
 
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jstdv8

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This is going to be totally unorthadox, but one of my frag swap members posted a video of her using a laser pointer in her tank and the clownfish went absolutley nuts and chased it everywhere, even burrowed under rockwork to try adn get it.
maybe this would work for the RG too. Point the laser into the bottle, RG goes in after it and up comes the bottle.
 
hunt

hunt

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what i did when i had to get my valentini puffer out, i held a drinking glass in the tank and tried to heard the puffer into the glass and it actually worked. I also did the same thing with a ziplock bag and it worked.(i did this in my 29g and 75g)
 
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yoshii

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Thanks for the extra advise, but I finally got him today. I figured if I'm going to redo the aquascape anyway, why not tear apart the rocks and get him easily? So I took out almost all the rocks in my tank, and wow, is he fast! My arm got tired and started hurt from chasing him around my 55gal tank. Now he's stressing out in a bucket acclimating to my 10gal quarantine(although its more like a frag tank)
I hope I never have to do that again.
 
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yoshii

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Originally Posted by Jstdv8
http:///forum/post/3280087
This is going to be totally unorthadox, but one of my frag swap members posted a video of her using a laser pointer in her tank and the clownfish went absolutley nuts and chased it everywhere, even burrowed under rockwork to try adn get it.
maybe this would work for the RG too. Point the laser into the bottle, RG goes in after it and up comes the bottle.
Hmm, this sounds nice and easy, if I ever have to catch a fish again, I'll try it :)
 
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luoxiaosang

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