Catching fish

[morgan]

Hi, Does anyone know of an easy way to catch fish please? On Friday I planned to rehome 6 Mollies to lfs. It took me an hour and I caught the grand total of 1 ! I was using a net. Is there a better way which would be easier for me and less stressful for the fish? I have a planted tank with ornaments. Thanks in advance.

 

[jmaster]

hi

i think the easyest way is by usin 2 nets always works for me

hope this helps

jmaster

 

[morgan]

Thanks, I will try that. I also found the centre piece of plastic between the hatches a nuisance, but if I take the hood right off I can't see!

 

[pseud]

I've always found mollies easy to catch.
Be careful when trying to catch fish. If you can't get them within a few minutes just leave and come back later that day.

I stressed a Ram to death by trying to catch it.

 

[breezer40]

Big nets work for me...the bigger the better

 

[morgan]

They were getting stressed. I also have a Common Pleco which comes out a lot but as soon as you open a hatch it hides and seems nervous. The Guppies didn't care less! The Mollies were skittish even at feeding time. They calmed down after that and are OK today. I will try again with the two nets in about a week's time. Give them time to forget! They have never been moved before, the Mollies were all born in the tank. I have to rehome the pleco (to a bigger tank which I have yet to buy) in a few months time, I really am not looking forward to catching that!

 

[itZme]

I've never had much trouble when using 2 large nets but my tanks aren't planted. I have heard that if you leave the net just resting in the tank for a while (an hour or so) before trying to catch them they will get used to seeing the net and not be so freaked when you move it. There's also the plastic soda bottle trap you can make easily. If you want to trap smaller fish then you don't even have to cut the neck off of the bottle. Here's a link

Good Luck!

-- itZme

 

[freddyk]

I've found using a big net to catch them and a smaller net with less water resistance to sheppard the fish into the other net works well.

 

[morgan]

Thanks for the replies, very useful information. The one net method was definitely not working!

 

[k3vin2k3]

When I try to catch my fish out, they all like to hide under this big rock, so what I do is, before I try to take one out, I take the rock out so they can't hide, its simple, but for my Flowerhorn.... lets just say it takes a while

 

[BOD]

you could also reduce the water level less water to swim away in!

 

[jollysue]

morgan I brought up a thread by maroonostrich,"Any tips." millym suggested and described a method that some of us used. It worked great--much better than nets in a big planted well decorated 100 usg with fast fish. You could try it. At least the only stressed fish are the ones caught, It worked quick for me. It would depend on the ones you want to catch. I was wanting the most aggressive eaters.

There is also an acrylic trap on the market that works on the same principle, but probably safer.

Good luck!