How to remove critters--cheap trap

[tbmoore]

cut top off coke bottle and turn inside out.
bait and wait..

tbmoore@cableone.net

 

[blueberryboomer]

That looks like it might work pretty good. I'll try to remember to try it the next time I need to get something out of one of our tanks. Thanks for the idea. Later Lisa

 

[flydan]

Hey,
That looks pretty good!
How do you post photo's? I have a scanner.
Thanks,
Dan'l

 

[saltwatersensae]

I think I will try that I have been wanting to take out a six- line wrasse that has been pecking at my snails.

 

[andymi]

This actually works pretty good. It almost got a sally lightfoot crab out with it this weekend , but it was too quick. I did catch a lot of chromis with it though
--Andy

 

[nm reef]

May need to use that on a juv red coris wrasse that I want to relocate..............Hmmmmmmm....now what to use as bait........

 

[fishfreek]

I used this same method to catch my blue damsel. Although i used a two liter bottle.
I put a small amount of formula two in it and about a 1/2 hour later he was out ot the tank. I tried every method i could think of to catch this very smart bugger with no luck. Than i remembered the minnow traps we used to use as a kid down at the creek. They were basicly the same thing but made of wire mesh. Worked like a charm once again. I guess fish are fish weather they are in a creek or a tank.

 

[vortech cobra 5.0]

I have used the coke bottle method before to rid my tank of a blue damsel. Worked like a charm. I found that if the lights are off in the evenings, that's the best time to catch them. Put a small amount of food in the trap and sit by the tank quietly and wait. It also helps to punch a few holes in the bottom to let the water drain out when you pull the trap out. All that's left is the fish or whatever you wanna trap.
Andy