View Full Version : Catch the blighters!!!!
Catpicklesdog
02-19-2008, 1:03 PM
I managed to get myself a "Trap-eze" fish trap second hand from Ebay. I've got to say it's pretty impressive. I set up in my tank about an hour ago and already I've had several chromis and my sixline wrasse go into it. I haven't shut the trap door on any of them yet as I'm waiting til Thursday to start catching fish, but so far, I'm definately impressed.
Reefscape
02-19-2008, 1:19 PM
Looks like a super cool bit of kit to have at hand Ali....Let us know how the actual catch goes :)
What, if anything, entices the target fish or fishes to enter the trap?:confused:
clown-lover
02-19-2008, 8:08 PM
normally you should place the type of food that your fish eats that you are trying to catch into the trap according to my readings. However patience is the biggest issue that you'll need. But better this that having to disassemble your tank going after the fish.
destined_love7
02-19-2008, 8:20 PM
What if they grow bored with the trap by the time you want them in there and won't go back in?
Catpicklesdog
02-20-2008, 3:19 AM
Put some more food in:grinyes:. If you look at the top left hand corner you can see a lump of fine mussel. Because fish will always go after food, once they know the trap isn't a threat they'll keep going in (hopefully) to try and get the food. I'm currently waiting for my lights to come on today so I'll let you know how it goes when the fish "wake up". I'm hoping to catch the Bangaiis. Wish me luck!!!
Edit: In case no-one had realised, that Chromis is in the trap!!!
Cool -where can I get one of these traps? I do not need it anytime soon, but this seems to me to be one of those items to have laying around, just in case.
Catpicklesdog
02-20-2008, 6:04 AM
I got mine on Ebay (UK). Found this though Fish Trap (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aquarium-Fish-Invert-Trap-Easy-Stress-Free-Capture_W0QQitemZ220202118660QQihZ012QQcategoryZ20 755QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ) if it helps. All I'd say is check your size, because I know there is no way my Yellow Tang will fit in mine:grinyes:
Catpicklesdog
02-20-2008, 8:21 AM
For any of those who doubted me - I caught two!!! I was actually after my sixline wrasse but got a chromis as well!!
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Here he is in his temporary home until tomorrow!
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Edit: Amazingly enough the Chromis has already gone back into the trap to eat some more food. I'm still waiting for my Bangaiis to try it !!!!
Why are you sequestering these particular species anyway? Have they become a nuisance? What are they destroying, which I have inferred by your naming them blighter?
Grins
02-20-2008, 11:43 PM
Someone, I think Marc at Melevsreef, has a video where every fish BUT the one they were trying to catch would swim in one of those.
Someone, I think Marc at Melevsreef, has a video where every fish BUT the one they were trying to catch would swim in one of those.
Funny!:eek3::grinyes::wall:
Catpicklesdog
02-21-2008, 10:21 AM
Why are you sequestering these particular species anyway? Have they become a nuisance? What are they destroying, which I have inferred by your naming them blighter?
It was the sixline wrasse I was after (mission completed). He's been terrorising my other fish and I'm pretty convoiced he was why my first mandarin jumped out of the tank as I watched him chase my second Manadrin down the overflow!!! I'm also hoping to catch my cardinals in order to move them to another tank (the "Love Shack")!!
clown-lover
02-21-2008, 5:53 PM
Very cool.. You caught the little bugger. Sending him back to the fish store??
Catpicklesdog
02-22-2008, 1:15 PM
Oh yes!! PJ has left the building!!:grinyes: