Whats the hardest fish/creature youve ever had to net?
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Bristlenose Pleco. His horns got stuck in my net once. Thought I would have to cut him out but he got out after about five minutes, I was freaking out. He has since died, but my new one, who's even bigger, gets transported with tupperware.
Trying to catch my 18-19 inch, 3.5 kg barramundi with an 8 inch net and a 9 inch tupperware container out of a 135g. Barramundi are renouned sport fish for their strength and jumping...
LiveMermaid07
Bloody Mary. As in, hand me one.
Barramundi Fight! Then you put em ina head lock,wrench his fin back and made em blurp uncle. I dont even have enough space for African Chichlids yet. Sounds like you got some whoppers aussie. This thread is getting fun
20 baby convict cichlids in a HEAVILY planted and decorated 55 gal. I too screamed and cussed, thankfully no-one was around to hear me, spent the better half of an afternoon and only got a bout 5 of those little f*#kers, I still have to figure out how to get the rest out. I now have a very LARGE net and a smaller one. Gonna try again tomorrow, maybe baiting them somehow with bloodworms, they go ape **** over them, or spookin them from one end into the larger net, dont know how it'll turn out but Im sure it'll be fun!!!
Corydoras pygmius have been extremely difficult to catch in a heavily planted ten gallon in my experience.
My Golden Weather Loach ..... an absolute nightmare to catch ... slippery eel, and hates being caught. I did have to empty the tank to cath him the last time .... even then, so freeking fast! and slippery.
My 9-10" pleco with a 10" heavy duty oscar/cichlid fish net. It is easy to catch him but if the tank is planted like mine he will dart away while his speed uproots the less firmly or newly rooted plants. What a nightmare. Once he/she is in the net, the fun starts, as he/she wiggles and does like the worm and launches himself out of the net. So I do it over a bucket so that he doesn't land on the hard wood floor. OUCH! Once he launched himself out, but his spiky tail got stuck on the net, so I had to use my hand to untangle him/her. He/she is very calm in the tank and eats out of my hand, and lets me "pet" him.
