Is This True (Re: Catching Fish While They Are Asleep)
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guineawhop
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haha, i have to catch fish all the time, if you have tons of live rock then this will be harder,unless you get a garbage can or big bucket and start loading the live rock into the buckets. i would take out all the major ornaments and get 2 nets. one net in one hand and the other net in the other and they usually tend to either swim real fast in the opposite net they see. the sleeping thing above might work though, i've never tried that though.
euphoria
Active Member
Hell yeahhhhhhhhh. I finally caught the trigger and it's out of the tank for good. I'll never in my life take the chance or listen to the stupid LFS and attempt to put a trigger in a reef tank w/ calmer fish.
Anyways, I came home early morning from a night shift at work. It was in the middle of a small hole in a rock w/ it's hook. I slowly removed the rock out of the tank and tried to get the trigger out but it wouldn't come out. I spent the next half hour trying to get the
[hr]
out and it was so frustrating. It just wouldn't let it's hook loose and come out, I tried to shake the rock and it still wouldn't come out. I was forced to break the rock into two pieces by a hammer to get him out. At that point the fish was very stressed and right now it's in a bucket w/ water and i'm waiting for the LFS to open so I can take it back.
Anyways, even if it dies I don't care. It killed 2 shrimps and a yellow tang I had.
Thanks for the tip of cathching it while it's asleep. It really worked
Myself - 1
Trigger - 0
Anyways, I came home early morning from a night shift at work. It was in the middle of a small hole in a rock w/ it's hook. I slowly removed the rock out of the tank and tried to get the trigger out but it wouldn't come out. I spent the next half hour trying to get the
[hr]
out and it was so frustrating. It just wouldn't let it's hook loose and come out, I tried to shake the rock and it still wouldn't come out. I was forced to break the rock into two pieces by a hammer to get him out. At that point the fish was very stressed and right now it's in a bucket w/ water and i'm waiting for the LFS to open so I can take it back.
Anyways, even if it dies I don't care. It killed 2 shrimps and a yellow tang I had.
Thanks for the tip of cathching it while it's asleep. It really worked
Myself - 1
Trigger - 0
ophiura
Active Member
Originally Posted by fishnerd
For future reference...
If you would have put the trigger and rock in the bucket, he would have unlodged himself.
Yup, just put it in there and let it be...and it would have come out on its own. I can believe it was totally stressed out, as were you for trying so hard. As for the shrimp, well, triggers are natural predators of them and they should not have been placed together. That was not the triggers fault in the slightest.
Having said this, I know of someone who had a HUGE hunk oout of their knuckle trying to take a trigger out during the night. Just totally startled it and that thing just latched on.
For future reference...
If you would have put the trigger and rock in the bucket, he would have unlodged himself.
Yup, just put it in there and let it be...and it would have come out on its own. I can believe it was totally stressed out, as were you for trying so hard. As for the shrimp, well, triggers are natural predators of them and they should not have been placed together. That was not the triggers fault in the slightest.
Having said this, I know of someone who had a HUGE hunk oout of their knuckle trying to take a trigger out during the night. Just totally startled it and that thing just latched on.
rubberduck
Active Member
Originally Posted by fishnerd
I got 2 stitches, compliments of a Titan Trigger (B. viridicens)
was it yours?
I got 2 stitches, compliments of a Titan Trigger (B. viridicens)
was it yours?
euphoria
Active Member
I did put the rock w/ trigger in a bucket w/ water and sat waiting for it to come out. It just wouldn't come out. I waited 15 minutes and nothing. I had a lot of LR out of the tank trying to get this peace out, and this was a big piece of LR that had to go under those LR's, so I needed the rock to put things back again and arrange my corals on the rocks again.
I waited and waited and just got very impatient and had to go to breaking the LR in half and releasing the fish. Now my big piece of rock is 2 small ones and I had to rearrange my rocks too
Anyways, I'll never buy those guys again.
I took it to the LFS and he took it back. Now my other fish can be happy
I waited and waited and just got very impatient and had to go to breaking the LR in half and releasing the fish. Now my big piece of rock is 2 small ones and I had to rearrange my rocks too
Anyways, I'll never buy those guys again.
I took it to the LFS and he took it back. Now my other fish can be happy