Looking for a trap

[Ninjabeaver]

Hey everyone its time for my blue tang to get rehomed, the yellow tang and it are too crowded and picking on each other.  Does anyone have a trap or a method to catch a 4.5-5" fish from a mature tank with lots of large colonies?

[youcallmenny]

My trap would work but is likely a bit small.  It's from marinedepot.com and they sell a bigger one for $50.  I took about 15 fish out of my 75g mostly sps reef recently because I caught ich. Managed that in 3 days with the trap baited with rods and pellets.

[Ninjabeaver]

My trap would work but is likely a bit small.  It's from marinedepot.com and they sell a bigger one for $50.  I took about 15 fish out of my 75g mostly sps reef recently because I caught ich. Managed that in 3 days with the trap baited with rods and pellets.

Did you have to stand there and release the hatch to trap?


Sent from the bottom of the sea.

[youcallmenny]

 Is there any other way?  Just be smart and only feed from the trap for several days.  I'd only stand there after some fresh food was added.  Usually an hour or two a day. 

[MrBret]

I have a fish trap( about 10inches) with a heavier glass door that drops shut. Last fish we used it for was an aggressive blue tang. The trick to catching was puitting the food in the cage, have the door closed. We would walk away from the tank for a bit....come back and the only way fish got to eat was by going in the trap that we only opened a minute at a time, then closed for hour. Doing that 3 times the blue tang was punching his way to the front of the line......CAUGHT!