How to Catch a Blenny

[jonboyb]

I didn't know my ORA Phantom Blenny had holed up in a small piece of LR and I moved it to another tank. I didn't even realize for a few days till I caught a glimpse of him. Now he's in a monster chunk of rock and I can't trick him out. He doesn't even pay a baited trap any attention....the tank is loaded with pods (in fact it's my pod breeding tank) and he's happy to just hide when I'm around. Fresh water dip....LOL....J/K of course He is EXTREMELY shy/scared after the move and literally hardly ever comes out at all. ROck is way too large to move to my DT and hope he relocates.

 

[salt reefer]

lol . most fish are smarter than they look. its a waiting game. hope you get him.

 

[corigan]

What I did to catch a blenny took me about 5 minutes. Everytime I would stand up from my couch the blenny would dive in a rock. I used to mess with it and make my friends laugh because I would just jump up from the couch anytime it would come out. It was nipping at my SPS' so it had to go. So I went up to the tank and waited for it to jump in it's rock. I then put a net where it would come in and out of the cave. I then took a pair of tweezers there were curved at the end and carefully as to not hurt the fish put them in the cave/hole and then tapped it in the butt like you would lobstering with a tickle stick. It jumped right out of the hole square into the net and I snatched it out. Good luck.