removing fish

mroth_3

shrimp boat captain
Dec 24, 2008
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I recently moved, and decided to go a diffrent direction with my 65 gallon tank. I originaly had some endlers and swords in it, but decided to put them in diffrent tanks after the move. I removed as much water as i could out of the tank to move it, but 6 or 7 fry managed to survive in the gravel or something. I didnt notice them until it was filled up and the water had cleared up at the new house. I was really hoping they would get eaten as I started stocking because i wasn't able to net them with the plants and rocks.

They are now full size, and I still cant get them out of the tank. At this point they are just taking up space and I want them out. I tried the two litter fish trap, and ill i can catch is a little ram and golden wonders. Any other ways of netting them or getting them out?
 
Try using a net and your other hand to scare the fish into the net? Otherwise I would probably drain some water again and take out all decorations.
 
I've spent hours with the net. The problem is that its a deep tank and its difficult to see whats going on when im nearly shoulder deep in the tank. I do not want to pull all my plants and remove the rock structure as it took a while to get it perfectly balanced. It would be a major inconvenience to pull all the plants and structure. I didnt know if anyone had any other fish trap ideas or something. I might just have to get another person to man the other side of the tank with a net.....
 
I just pulled 2 fish out of my 125. It only took about 10 min to catch them both, ditn' net either. One of them was hiding between my heater and canister filter pick up tube. I reached in and got him with my hands. The other went into this hollow log decoration I have so I grabbed the log and pulled them out. Try that. Get a hollow log. After chasing them around for so long they will surely go in there to hide.
 
Hook up jumper cables and 2, 12 volt batteries in line, and zap the lil basterds, LOL J/K. Good luck capturing them.
 
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