Catching a Melanurus Wrasse

[Marco_99]

After having my fabulous Melanurus wrasse for half a year it’s time to evict him. Right now he’s pushing 5 inches and is a hunting machine. I would like to get shrimp, emerald crabs, and last night examining the tank in the dark have hundreds of many tiny, beautiful snails that have just hatched.

I’m using a medium sized Tank Matez bubble trap with a 3 inch mirror in the back. I haven’t really tried that hard yet but my question is will a Melanurus wrasse be all right in the sump without sand for a short period of time? say a one week? I don’t wanna put a bowl of sand or something in my sump because when he goes into sand, it’s flys everywhere, and I can’t catch him on demand and take him into an LFS at the same time if you know what I mean. If I catch him when they’re not open or something, like I’m going to have to put him somewhere.

Anyone with experience with catching wrasses, and or storing them for a little bit to rehome? I just don’t wanna stress him out too much but this has to be done so I can get my tank back. I love the fish, he’s a model citizen besides his natural instinct to kill everything invertebrate related lol.

I mean, he hasn’t killed every snail, but he has three emerald crabs under his belt, a blood red fire shrimp under his belt, 2 peppermint shrimp under his belt, and a whole host of small Trochus snails… It’s time

 

[tbrown]

Put a bowl of sand in there for him.