need help catching tang!!!!!!!! please!

[Emoney]

Bought a black tang a few months ago.he is housed in a 135 6' tank with a small yellow belly hippo, a sm Med sized sohal tang, and the nasty yellow tang!

There was some slight aggression between the yellow towards the black for the first few days but after that's all was well. With the yellow chasing the black once in a while........until I totally reaquascaped my entire tank. Over the weekend and remove 50lbs of LR ..now the yellow is beating up badly on the black and he (the yellow) is a SOB to catch!

Any suggestions? Seems he knows his days are number in the tank...tried net and fish trap to no avail! He's very smart and the two center braces in tank make it so much more difficult



Help! !!!!

 

[condor]

wait till like 3 in the morning and pull him out but try to keep the room dark. if he rests in the lr the get a aqua medic fish trap. they work great. if you end up having to use the trap Dont feed your fish. if they want to eat they will have to go in. this works in less than 36 hours in most cases

 

[wish]

I don't know if this helps but I used an egg crate from the lighting dept at home depot
and created an L shape in a corner of a tank. My Tang loves to eat so I added seaweed
in the corner to trap him or her.

Good Luck

 

[JR's Reef]

Try getting the black out with the trap to give more time to get the yellow out if he is easier to get out. Yes they tend to know when you are after them to bad he is not like my yellow he would be in the floor in a sec. You can also try a small fishing hook just cut the barb of it and it doesnt bother them Ive caught many that way. Best of luck and let us know how it goes

 

[Reef lvr]

Sounds crazy but if you keep him on one side of tank, take an old teeshirt and make a curtain in tank with it..Has worked for me a few times..Good luck however you do it!!

 

[jordan3548]

Ive used a piece of seaweed on a clip before I put the net in before the algae so it "thought" it was a threat then put the clip in with the seaweed and waited for the fish I wanted to come eat then bam got'em it was fairly easy is put it at the top near a corner

 

[110reef]

I feel your pain. I have been trying to catch my rabbitfish for several weeks. (Not due to aggression issues, just because I want him out) I have had every single fish swim in and out of my trap except the stupid rabbitfish. In fact I could have probably caught 3 or 4 fish at the same time in the trap. But the rabbitfish won't go in.:cry:

Best of luck with your dilemma.

 

[Emoney]

May try to nab him later tonight ...turned off lights all day today so that may help in me catching him with a surprise attack!

Thanks for all the helpful hints and tricks ..hope to get him in Frag system tonight!

 

[TheChef]

turn off all the lights (ALL of them, black out the entire room the tank is in) and give it an hour or two to fall asleep. Flip on the actinics or full brights and you generally have a minute or two to get him out before he wakes up. I got my purple tang out that way, by far the easiest way

 

[Emoney]

problem is..I just peeped the scene with my android light, and noticed that the yellow tang is hidding in the left corner..BUT..the rock he is hiding behind is huge and is tall like a pillar and ofcourse he is on the back side..the rock is not movable...any suggestions on a sneek attack approach ? two nets maybe?

 

[condor]

2 nets and a long poker to lightly move him out(still in the dark)

 

[condor]

pic of hiding place?

 

[TheChef]

problem is..I just peeped the scene with my android light, and noticed that the yellow tang is hidding in the left corner..BUT..the rock he is hiding behind is huge and is tall like a pillar and ofcourse he is on the back side..the rock is not movable...any suggestions on a sneek attack approach ? two nets maybe?

If he's truly asleep he'll have a white-ish palor (form of active camo for sleeping fish) and wont see you coming due to the light shock. I put on a latex glove and grabbed mine, but i wouldn't recommend it. Two nets may work, but the biggest thing you'll have to contend with is the fact that he'll have his dorsal spines erect and this will generally prevent you from pushing or pulling him out of rockwork with any ease

 

[Emoney]

UPDATE!!!!!! Tang has been caught useing the surprise attack tech! Turn lights on, missed with the first pass, lucky enough to get him on second...

Thanks to all my fellow reefers! TY

 

[Sikryd]

Ed, you should have had the ninja fish catcher come over!!!! I don't know how I have such good luck catching fish, but I've caught just about ever fish out there without a problem. Except for Bob's "devil" angelfish - that guy was QUICK and smart.
Glad you caught it.

 

[Emoney]

TY Chad...Didnt know you were a member of the " fish catching Ninja Squad"..Ill keep that in mind holmes!

 

[whip1]

the fish trap no reefer should go without I caught all 3 tangs in my 180 in 15 mins. but what I was after was the flame he took a few days but he's gone now:)
the large is the best size. the door is weighted so it slides really easy when the fish you are after go's in and there's a whole to shoot food in the top this trap works very well. get it and sit back have a beer and wait:)