My fish trap

[Dragonreef202]

here’s my home made fish trap to catch my Melanurus wrasse. He’ll be moved to tank with my snowflake eel since he ate both of my cleaner shrimps. Just put some raw shrimp in my 2liter soda bottle than waited for him to go in and grab the shrimp and I than grab him. It took me three days to catch him. Now he’s in the other tank.

 

[James M]

Did you use the other part of the bottle?

 

[Jesterrace]

Nice. I used a smaller bottle for a Red Head Salon Fairy Wrasse and simply cut the top off and folded the top of the remaining bottle inward and funneled it into the bottle. I kept it weighed down with rocks and stood it up, so the fish had to swim down into it.

 

[Dragonreef202]

Did you use the other part of the bottle?

no I just cut the top off and used the remaining part of the bottle

 

[James M]

no I just cut the top off and used the remaining part of the bottle

Weird. I would assume they would swim right back out

 

[Dragonreef202]

Weird. I would assume they would swim right back out

he tried I just covered the opening with the net as soon as he went into the bottle to get the shrimp. It took a few days to catch him he just kept squeezing through tiny openings. Until today I just stuck the net inside the bottle so he couldn't get out until he came through the net.

 

[Jesterrace]

They won't swim back out if they are required to swim down in. Most fish aren't very adept and doing cramped quarter vertical U-Turns in a hurry. I have actually placed my hand directly on the smaller trap I used and they freaked out but never attempted to swim up.