Six-line wrasse capture

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srikamaraja

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can anyone help me remove this pugnacious pseudohexataeniatid?

I've tried the basic 'inverted soda bottle' minnow trap baited with shrimp pellets, but all I capture are my peppermint shrimps, again and again.
It's impossible to get him at night, as my rockwork covers most of the footprint of the tank, and access to wherever he's sleeping is most impossible. Any ideas?
 
be carefull when removing the rock. Keep them in buckest of tank water so no die off occurs. This will impact your tank when being added back in.
 
pulling rock is the only way to go. I had the same issue when I was trying to catch a dotty back. Once all the rock is out, you can net them easily and plus you get to re-landscape your tank! Woohoo! Unless of course you have a lot of corals.
 
Screw it. FAR too many corals. I guess I'll keep the trap in from time to time, hoping I get lucky.

6x palythoa 2x zoanthus 1x ricordea 1x gorgonian 2x parazoanthus 1x neozoanthus 3x nephthea 1x briareum 1x clavularia 1x porites 1x montipora 1x clavularia

and my little majano that i spoil.

and PHOLIDICHTHYS spp. for the win! keepin the sand bed REAL.

...I can't put anything on my sandbed. :-P
 
UPDATE: the bastard finally jumped. I found him with in a half hour, and put him back in immediately... he was breathing for another half hour, but soon expired. He was a cool fish.
 
It turns out pods, especially gammarids, are essential to the clean up crew in my tank. Good thing Pholidichthys don't mess with them... I swear, engineer gobies just eat biofilm off of sand or something...
 
go out and but a breeder for livebreeding fish and put your shrimp in there then use the minnow trap and if that doesnt work try placing some food in the bottom of the tank at night with the lights off and wait and maybe he will come out
 
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