How to catch my lunare wrasse?

[Louie3]

Ok my wrasse is giving my tang to many problems and I want to take him out but just using two nets doesnt work, this sucka is fast! So do you guys/girls have another technique that works well for catchting fish.

Thanks Louie

[blueboy]

what i have done when i need to remove a fish is drain the tank into a large tub, leaving the rock and corals in place. once the water is only a few inches deep it's easy to net the fish. then pump the water back in. the corals are only "high and dry" for a few minutes. that is, if you have a large pump, and container on hand. otherwise you'll probably have to trap it. you'll have to get someone else to tell you how that's done, cuz it's never worked for me.

[Thunderkat]

Tank draining is the only way I could ever catch a wrasse. That is where the fish gets the name, they are a pain in the wrasse :)

[Louie3]

If only I had a large container :(

[blueboy]

well, i guess you could use many smaller containers.

[5.0Stang]

try 2 people and 3 nets with a tank divider the corner him further

[Louie3]

Blue Boy: thats gunna be alot of containers.

5.0Stang: I've tried using 4 nets with me and my bro but the thing its to fast!!!

[5.0Stang]

I think Ace (hobogato) had a great way involving barbless fishing hooks and a 12 pack.

[erikharrison]

1.) Use a cranberry juice container, they are rectangular at them bottom. DRINK THE JUICE (important)
2.) Get a piece of plastic that's rigid (from anything you buy thats impossible to get open, i.e. anything from best buy that's over 20 and under one hundred dollars) and cut it a little bigger than a playing card.
3.) Cut a hole in it large enough to feed some string through
4.) Feed the string through and attach it to a toothpick
5.) Superglue the toothpick
6.) Cut a hole in the bottom of the cranberry juice container that is smaller than your playing card sized piece of plastic.
7.) Put the plastic piece inside of the container and use some packing tape to tape it to the inside (use super glue as well)
8.) Put the fish food in the container and set it on the bottom.
9.) Wait
10.) Catch
11.) Give Wrasse to me for typing this up!
haha good luck

[txstateunivreefer]

ive caught my pain in the rear end fish w/ a 2 L coke bottle cut the top off and cut the neck to the right size for the problem fish invert the bottle into the "chamber" put shrimp or whatever you think it will be lured in by inside place on bottom and watch they swim in but by the time you pick it up they cant get back out to secure both pieces use cable ties or twisty ties to attach thru holes that you can poke in plastic

[erikharrison]

TX's idea is an awesome lil trap too, you can leave it unattended. The fish find it easy to get into, but hard to get out of. Mine is more of the whole premise "I'll get you, you little @#$@#%@#%"

[Louie3]

Thanks guys for the ideas.Erik your method couldve of worked but I couldnt do it :( But TX's your method worked!!!! thanks My wrasse ****ed me off!!

[erikharrison]

I had a DAMsel that ate my goniopora leaving behind a 1" square... It ate all of my xenia (feasted) and would nip at EVERYTHING! I hated it. I got a fish trap from addboy (Garret) and it worked like a champion! Glad you caught your problematic fish!

[txstateunivreefer]

yea i did that to catch some fish after i had added a tally to my list of things i wished i thought of sooner for taking my entire tank apart LR and all for a chalk basslet that went to caferacer