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I had a ytd in my 72.
He was a terror to everyone else in the tank. These fish are smart and if the even see a shadow of a net, they're hiding. I tried everything to get them and in the end, had to take all the rockwork out to do it. Good luck |
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Try the trap, but if the damsels are food-crazy (which they are!) then a good old hook and line will probably work, just use a small hook and bend the barbs down so you can take it out of it's mouth.
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A trap will probably not work for these fish.
they are in my experience, very spatially aware and will not trust a bottle ( i tried a few different variations) but the hook and line I never tried... I could see that working with this fish. |
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Start feeding out of a net, the rest is pretty easy
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tried that too.
everyone BUT my damsel fell for it, as they did the bottle trap. |
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awesome i will try the good old hook line and sinker then lol....never in a million years would i have thought of that... even though i love to go fishing every now and again... thanks all
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I caught mine with a small barbless hook baited with mysis......I have another to catch I should video it
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Hi try this out,
I had to catch two in my tank and I put a mirror in the front and when they where busy attacking the 'intruders' snip/snap in under a minute they were netted.
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I'll post some videos of the "fishing" technique when I get time lol. I fished a couple striped cardinalfish out that way. They evaded every other method of capture I could come up with, but the hook and line with some PE mysis on the end took less than 2 minutes for the three fish. Just don't catch the ones you want to stay in the tank!
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