DeLgAdO;109675; said:
if u cant handle the smell... dont get fish...
i personally dont mind the smell of fish... i love everything about these animals...
Netting out monster sized fish ?
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if u cant handle the smell... dont get fish...
i personally dont mind the smell of fish... i love everything about these animals...
Friend had his CO2 injector mess up and put WAY too much gas into the tank. All the fish were lying on their sides and he thought they were dead. After removing the CO2 he did a partial water change and added aeration and all the fish came to with no damage. A bit later he had to move a medium sized Datnoid from a heavily planted tank to a new one. He took the CO2 line dropped into the tank and turned it up! In a few minutes the Dat flopped over on its side and he reached in, picked it up and put it in the new tank. The fish was not happy about being caught and refused to eat for a few days, but otherwise was fine. I would only say if you do this watch the fish very carefully and have an O2 source ready just in case!
Wonder if Nitrous oxide would work? Happy fish!!
Wonder if Nitrous oxide would work? Happy fish!!
I posted this in the Amazon thread, but thought I'd toss it in here to since it's relevant to moving 'big' fish. Moving a 4 1/2 foot arapaima gigas - wide awake and kicking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg3lTIch5f0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg3lTIch5f0
ok monster sized fish can be a problem ...but i think ive got one thats a little more trouble...i have had a "yellow lab" i think, small yellow african, that has lived in my SA tank for like 2 years now. id love to get him out and put it in my african set up, but i cant catch the little sh*t. fuess you have to be smarter than the fish , so any tips for someone that isnt smarter than their mini-monster?
has anyone tried pulling a "free willy"? making a sling out of a flat piece of something like cloth or rubber or something. just fold it, sew the ends up to make a pocket type contraption with shoelaces off the open ends to wrap it up and incompacitate the fish. been wanting to do it for a while but haven't had much a reason to move my fish. it's always a last resort ya know.
bryan.olsen;868420; said:
use a piece of plexi-glass to divide the tank in half and keep sliding it over till it creates a small enough area to catch the fish easily. I wish I would have known that when I moved all my electric yellows
bryan.olsen;868420; said:
Smarter fish like us humans are creatures of habbit. Watch your little cichlid and you will see that it sleeps in the same place every night. So once you know where it will be sleeping, one day before dark, remove any obstacles from around the sleeping place, remove the tank lids and give it a few hours to go to sleep. You should have a 2-3 minute window to scoop it up when you turn on lights suddenly.
If your unable to do this then a fish trap might work. I would try a long dark PVC pipe with one end closed with netting.
