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Any tips for catching a maroon clown??
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lol i can see im going to fit right in on the other side
anyways back to help with the fish lol dave can you tell us a lil more about what you said
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Throw an empty fish trap in so all the fish get used to it being there.
Then starve the tank for a few days and then throw food in the trap.
Linda actually did this with a trap I borrowed from a member and at one point every fish was in the trap together.
Gotta be quick.
Then starve the tank for a few days and then throw food in the trap.
Linda actually did this with a trap I borrowed from a member and at one point every fish was in the trap together.
Gotta be quick.
ok so who wants to let us nice guys borrow a trap????
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I switch all my lights on rather quickly and caught most all my fish .They seemed shocked, blinded or both.
OK here was the scenario:
I started to establish a harem of Hawaiian Flame Wrasses and my original six line was not attacking, but stalking the Flames I had already put in the tank. I knew what was coming as he got bigger, so I decided to remove him from the tank. I tried netting him, didn't work. His sleeping place was inaccessible. I made the homemade trap from the 2 liter coke bottle, the six-line would wait outside the trap for another fish to get caught and stir up the food. The six-line would wait for the food to drift out and he would eat it. I got one of the plexiglass cylinder traps with the slider door that you bait on one end. He didn't go into it at all.
Then after all this failure, I thought to myself, what does a six-line wrasse hate more than anything else int he fish world? Answer: another six line.
So I got in touch with Tim at Keen Reef and asked to borrow a six line as bait. I got a small rectangular shaped plexiglass container and drilled a bunch of holes in it for water circulation and placed the bait six-line in there, then placed the bait six-line in the plexiglass container in the cylinder trap. Within an hour my six-line went into the trap to harass the bait six-line and I caught him.
Took the bait six-line and my six-line and gave them to Tim. Problem solved. No fish hurt. Worked like a charm.
I started to establish a harem of Hawaiian Flame Wrasses and my original six line was not attacking, but stalking the Flames I had already put in the tank. I knew what was coming as he got bigger, so I decided to remove him from the tank. I tried netting him, didn't work. His sleeping place was inaccessible. I made the homemade trap from the 2 liter coke bottle, the six-line would wait outside the trap for another fish to get caught and stir up the food. The six-line would wait for the food to drift out and he would eat it. I got one of the plexiglass cylinder traps with the slider door that you bait on one end. He didn't go into it at all.
Then after all this failure, I thought to myself, what does a six-line wrasse hate more than anything else int he fish world? Answer: another six line.
So I got in touch with Tim at Keen Reef and asked to borrow a six line as bait. I got a small rectangular shaped plexiglass container and drilled a bunch of holes in it for water circulation and placed the bait six-line in there, then placed the bait six-line in the plexiglass container in the cylinder trap. Within an hour my six-line went into the trap to harass the bait six-line and I caught him.
Took the bait six-line and my six-line and gave them to Tim. Problem solved. No fish hurt. Worked like a charm.
you know where i can get the trap you were talking about
