Time to go fishing!
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Time to go fishing!
I think I'm going to link this thread to everyone who says setting up a 10g QT is too much work and isn't necessary. Might help them put things into a different perspective.
Had to leave the skimmer off for 2 days according to the Dr Tim's bottle directions..Holy moly, turned it back on and this is 1 hour of skimming..That's a lot of fish turds crammed in a small garage trough!
I also dug out a little hang on filter from the attic and threw another sponge in there, and finally maintaining zero ammonia, thank goodness!
No luck so far with the fish trap, but I will persevere.
Merry early Christmas everyone!
Well funny you mention that..It's a royal pencil wrasse who I have seen dive in the sand before. 2 nights ago I isolated him to the left 1/3 of the tank by sectioning off the rest of the tank with some netting material. I then removed all the rock over there and no visible wrasse, so I spent an hour digging through the sand but never found that sneaky little guy.
I may try it again, but try to actually watch where he buries himself this time.
Sounds like he takes after his owner!Well, I'm quickly losing my patience with this last fish in the tank; it won't go anywhere near the trap, and rarely even comes out of the rock, and my fallow period and the copper treatment can't begin until he's out, so it's time to take decisive action. I was up until 3am this morning unsuccessfully trying to catch it, so I've left all the rock out of the tank until he's caught, and just have the coral on the sand. He's currently buried himself in the sand so I have no clue where he's at, so I'll wait until he appears again to go on the hunt. I've strategically placed the coral to allow multiple open spaces that run front to back, and found that one of my BRS screen tops will almost perfectly fill the tank to section it off, so once I see it, I'll trap it in whatever side he's on to lessen the getaway space, and hopefully drive him into the sand, and should be able to see where he goes now that the tank is pretty open.
This fish deserves a medal for perseverance!
Maybe sectioning it off into 3-4 sections now with some of those screen tops and just wait to see in which section he appears will speed things up for you. Good luck with your ongoing saga!!
It's a solid plan for sure. Though I have another idea if you're up to it...
That sand doesn't look very deep. If you're set up to do a water change, I might try dragging your finger (or a chopstick) through the sand until you hit him. He'll pop out and run.
I tried this on a small scale last night.. I had him in a 2ft section on the right side of the tank and started raking the sand..they problem I found quickly is that I have unbelievably dirty sand, so within 2 or 3 passes, I couldn't see anything at down at the sand, so even if I found him, my poor sand husbandry would prevent catching him...now I wish I would have been cleaning my sand all along to be able to do that!