Catching Damsels

[Fishtales]

Does anybody have an effective method of catching Damsels without destroying the tank? I have a trio of three striped Damsels I would like to remove.

[mikedelgado]

A tiny fihing hook (barb removed) some shrimp and about 5 minutes.Then its off to the grille

[Chad and Belinda]

Lots of patience and a fish trap. Took me 2 hours to catch our Sgt Major.

[+KeeperOfTheZoo]

Without destroying the tank? Yea. Good luck.

I had to catch 2 sgt. majors, an almost 4" yellow tail, an 18" snowflake eel and 4 orbicular cardinals out of my tank (they came with it, after moving it and setting it back up I was dumb enough to put all those ugly monsters back in... well, the eel was beautiful but the fish were not)... none were under 3".

I tried the hook and line... didn't work for me but I'm not much of a fisher woman (it was actually a pretty horrific failure of an experience and hard on the fish. Something I personally would not ever try again). I didn't try a trap, but my fish were pretty dang canny. I tried floating a net with food in the tank and the fish weren't about to fall for that.

100+lbs of rock removal later I did catch all the *$@!>-ing fish.

I learned a valuable lesson: fish go in the tank much easier than they come out. Makes me think a little harder about what I add.

I wish you luck. Lots of it. Try a fish trap.

[Derek]

I usually just put a small sheet of acrylic in the tank to corner off an area, then put some food behind it. The fish will swim behind the acrylic, then I just move it so that it is sealed in the corner.

[rainbody]

I did the 2L bottle trick. It took five minutes for the fish to swim in. I baited it of course. Search youtube for fish trap.

[Timfish]

Shotgun?! A friend of mine made a miniture speargun with a fishhook, pencil and hollow fiberglass arrowshaft.