Fish issue?

[saltier]

I recently cycled my 90 g bow front and I added my corals, mushrooms and Zoa's. I have 3 damsels in there and one is near adult size and two juvies and I think these little snots have been nipping at my brain coral!!! I think I just need to get them all out but how without destroying my tank aesthetics? Allllll trade secrets accepted!!

[hobogato]

fish trap. there are a few acrylic ones that i made floating around, check with kristy or z28pwr

if you cant get ahold of one of those, google "coke bottle fish trap"

[saltier]

cool thanks!

[1fstlightning]

Yeah the Coke bottle ended up catching mine. Pretty easy too. You for sure cant net them, them suckers are way too fast!

[justahobby]

What kind of damsels are they?

[CoryDude]

Damsels and hawkfish were the hardest to catch for me. You may need to pull the tank apart (my experience). You can pull the rocks, get the fish out as quickly as possible and reintroduce everything without having to go through a die off and recycling phase. Of course you'll never get your new rockwork to look as good as the old.

Last time I did this, I used 4X25 gallon tubs, a 50 gallon bag of salt, and 2 small 20 gallon holding tanks for the corals and fish. All in all, it took about an hour and a half.

[ErikH]

Put in a piece of egg crate and half your tank. Keep doing that until you corral them.