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Raechal

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Okay so I did an 80% water change in the 120 gallon lastnight and then filled it back up and added dechlor and all that "fun" stuff. :rolleyes: Then I put the two heaters in there to warm up the water to the temp of the 29 gallon. Then I went to sleep because the heaters took so long to warm it up. Then when I woke up, the temp was just perfect (a little warmer but it was about right) so I went to the 29 gallon with a bucket and a net! :lol:

It took me about an hour and a half to net all of the fish out. I didn't bother netting the pregnant molly as I didn't want her to be stressed out. Plus, now that she is alone in the 29 gallon (with the exception of the rubber nose plec and her fry) maybe she will hurry up and give birth. :p Seems like she has been pregnant forever!

I couldn't catch the rubber nose plec. He's too smart and too fast. You'd think it would be easy when he is sucking to the glass, just swipe him with the net right? But nooo...not my plec...he is so small he just wriggles through a small space between the net and the glass and gets away. :grr: So I left him in there. I guess it's his loss, not mine. Who wouldn't want to be in a 120 gallon rather than a 29? :p Oh yea, the neons were hard to catch as well. :nod: Then while I was adding the other fish, my bumblebee catfish decided to jump out of his bowl and into a cardboard box by the 29 gallon while I was out of the room! He was lucky I saw his clumsy fat self wriggling around in the box. :wub:

So all of the fish are in the tank safely. The cories are a little timid, but they are scooting around in the sand like puppies. :wub: The bumblebee catfish went straight for his hiding pot and so did the blue ram. The glass catfish went for the plants in the corner. The neons are tightly shoaling throughout the tank. I was worried about my ram at first because he is breathing kind of heavily and his stress bars are very dark. I hope he gets better soon. :nod:
 
Congrats on the "home move"! :clap:

One hour is not bad....i spent almost 45 minutes trying to catch just one CAE the other week!!!

clever little bugger must've known where the glass support bar was across the top of the tank...every time i almost had him caught he would just cruise over to the other side of the tank so i would have to lift my net out and start all over again!!! :sly:

chased him into an ornamental pot eventually and just quickly lifted the whole pot out of the tank...forgot it had a hole at the bottom of it though so left an almightly trail of water as i ran from one end of the house to the other to put him in the other tank!!

got there in the end though.. :flex:

steve 8)
 
thebaldranger said:
Congrats on the "home move"! :clap:

One hour is not bad....i spent almost 45 minutes trying to catch just one CAE the other week!!!

clever little bugger must've known where the glass support bar was across the top of the tank...every time i almost had him caught he would just cruise over to the other side of the tank so i would have to lift my net out and start all over again!!! :sly:

chased him into an ornamental pot eventually and just quickly lifted the whole pot out of the tank...forgot it had a hole at the bottom of it though so left an almightly trail of water as i ran from one end of the house to the other to put him in the other tank!!

got there in the end though.. :flex:

steve 8)
Yea, the neons took me like 45 minutes and there are only 5 of them. The red-tailed rasbora swam right into my net as soon as I put it in the water. :lol: I think he overheard me talking about my 120 gallon and he was like, "Me first! Me first!" Haha. :lol: They all seem to be doing okay right now. The cories are hiding together behind a plant, the ram is hiding behind a plant along with the glass catfish and the bumblebee catfish is hiding in his pot. The neons are swimming around and having a blast though, along with the one glo-lite and the red-tailed rasbora. I am hoping to go get some more fish this weekend to fill out the schools a little more. :thumbs:
 
At my LFS they caught my plec just using there hands because he couldn't catch it with the net.
 
Bloomjack said:
At my LFS they caught my plec just using there hands because he couldn't catch it with the net.
A common plec? Ouch! They're pretty spikey! :p My old common plec jumped out of the bowl he was in while I was cleaning the tank and he stuck right to the tile floor. :rolleyes: I decided to grab him up with my hand and he had small bristley spikes all over his body. He felt pretty cool though. :cool:

When I worked at the LPS I hated getting the plecs out. Some guy came in and said he had an algae problem and he wanted 4 plecs. I got the first 3 no problem within like 5 minutes. The other one wouldn't budge off the glass and I didn't want to smush him. It took me like 20 minutes to get the guy his last plec. I felt really bad, but he understood. He was the maintenance guy that worked there anyway in the reptile section so we kind of knew each other. :p
 
:clap: :clap: Well done Raechal i hope they will settle in to there new home quickly :D i dread to think what it will be like when i move everything to my 55g :crazy: :crazy: . I have a common plec too oh joy of :wub: joy
 
Woohoo congrats on the new home move!

dont feel bad bout an hour the lfs lady just took half an hour to catch one cichlid ;)

enjoy ya new environment! =]
 
A krib in my planted 29gallon took me weeks to catch... i ended up waiting for em to go in a orniment then took the whole thing out.
 
Nix said:
A krib in my planted 29gallon took me weeks to catch... i ended up waiting for em to go in a orniment then took the whole thing out.
:lol:

That is how I caught my bumblebee catfish. :thumbs:
 
Full tank pic
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Right side of tank
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Close-up of his pot
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Left side of tank
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Close-up of some plants fake and real
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Some pics of my green/bronze cory. This is where he "hides" but he is in plain view to everyone outside the tank. I guess he just THINKS he is hidden. :lol:
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