Which fish do you DREAD netting out? Which ones do you not mind?

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Finalfire9;2629527; said:
Try netting a green peace worker ;)
LMAO ! The one i had trouble with was a basketball sized red volitans lionfish. Their fins are so ****ing delicate
 
The hardest fish i have ever tried to catch was a 10cm simase alage eater in a 30inch heavy planted tank. He had started nibbling the slime on my discus. he had to go. I got him from my lfs when they were setting up all new tanks, some guy wanted this it so i had to mind him till they found him. the sweetner was i got a 15cm sailfin pleco, to mind as well. anyway neither guy showed up for the fish so i ened up with them by default. yay for the plec but i hated that alage eater from the moment he was in my tank. I wanted to use the siamese as a tester for my newly set up 4 foot. that brace in the middle was the biggest pain, the nets would get caught in the plants and pull them out. By the time i caught him my planted tank was wrecked. I seriously considered dumping him in the cod tank as revenge, but as he was a good alage trimmer he went into the new 4 foot. I just hoped the extra space would mean i never saw him! But he is never leaving that 4 foot, I think even when i turn it marine, i'm not gunna try to move him!
 
scissor tails are a major pita, my arm actually hurts for awhile after trying to catch them
 
Don't like to net fast, big, or spinny ones. Don't mind netting slow, small, or smooth ones.
 
My Dovii, I ended up buy a rubber net cause he just ripped the crap out've all the nets I tried to use on him. It was like a game, I put the net in his tank he grabs ahold of it and tried to pull it away from me.

Little $h*t.
 
my 3 lei are insane to catch if i even walk past me tank with a net in hand they start thrasing around the tank spilling ****loads off water its like they know they net = trouble
 
talking catfish, when he was alive and even gettin him out dead was a nightmare....then how do u catch a 2ft plec with a net???? once again, even dead was a pain
 
I have to agree with the pacu people. Last time I moved mine, they were only a foot and a half. There was a river flowing through the middle of my living room. I can't imagine next time. My now 2 foot marble pim is going to be fun, too. For the big guys, I usually use garbage bags (thick ones). Plecos aren't too bad. I usually catch them with my hands. It can be time consuming, but it is better than cutting them out of a net.
 
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