Thinking about fish catchers....

[enchanted]

I was sitting here thinking about how cool it would be to get like a 280 Gallon tank and setup something like a mini river enviroment. Well, my mind wandered to catching danios and guppys.....

I thought, if it is that hard to catch them in a tank..... I can just picture someone out trying to catch a guppy, danio, tetra, or other small fish with a large tank net.

It just sent me laughing. Hope some of you get a good laugh picturing that.

 

[mrOverstocknewbie]

LOL!
Soon I plan to catch my danios from a 44gal pentagon corner tank to be moved into a 55gal tank.

Wish Me Luck

 

[enchanted]

Make sure you have two big nets. I went through that. Between cussing the danios, cussing myself, soaking my shirt.......... I can laugh about it now, but I was really glad when I bought the two big nets at walmart. Well worth the 1.96.

 

[CFC]

A good tip for when moving fish to a new tank is to drain all but 1 or 2 inches of water from the tank and remove all plants and decor before attempting to catch the fish, this makes the whole process much less stressful on both you and the fish.

 

[Vip]

it took me about 3 days to catch a male blue acara once, in the end i put a clear open large bottle in the tank with some and i got him (after catching the wrong acaras 5 times)

 

[Erised]

My danios always try to attack the net and swim right into it? Guess I'm lucky!

 

[Ava_Banana]

Neons........I have three neons in my tank that I just haven't been able to catch.........i end up stressing all the fish in there.......maybe I have too much planting and stone/wood.......they just hide and laugh at me....

 

[karrihug]

in my tank with neons danios and live bearers i don't have to catch them, if i am trying to catch one in particular the hard part is keeping the rest of the idiots out of the net long enough to get the one i want. guess they really trust me

 

[Colin_BC]

Another way to make the fish more comfortable with a net is to leave it in the tank with some food in it so they get used to swimming in and out of the net on their own. Eventually they will associate the net with food and want to check it out when it enters the tank instead of hightailing it...

Colin

 

[Kittycat]

My guppies are so friendly, even though I use small nets in my tank it is hard NOT to catch them, LOL. Like, I'm trying to fish out a fry or something, and I end up with 3 to 5 fishes in the net!

 

[clutterydrawer]

haha once i needed some tank water for something (i forget what) so i dipped a jam jar into the tank, not looking what i was doing as I was talking to someone at teh same time. when i fulled the jar jar out it was FULL OF TETRAS! Aaaaaaargh! silly friendly fish.

incidentally he other day when i *needed* to catch them, they were nowehere to be found.

 

[Dwarfs]

My danios always try to attack the net and swim right into it? Guess I'm lucky!

So do my danios I thought they were just stupid

 

[CathyG]

I was sitting here thinking about how cool it would be to get like a 280 Gallon tank and setup something like a mini river enviroment. Well, my mind wandered to catching danios and guppys.....

I thought, if it is that hard to catch them in a tank..... I can just picture someone out trying to catch a guppy, danio, tetra, or other small fish with a large tank net.

It just sent me laughing. Hope some of you get a good laugh picturing that.

Did you mean catching fish in the wild, rather than in a large tank?

When I was a kid (lol!) we used to regularly go to a local stream to catch minnows and 3 and 5 spined sticklebacks. The challenge was to catch them with your hands! We would lay on our bellies for hours, with our arms deep in the water and our hands cupped. When a shoal approached, we would call to the "watchers" then sweep our arms underneath the shoal, flicking fish over our heads for the "watchers" to note where they landed! ) We did put them back though

I learned from my grandad (an avid fisherman) that to tickle a fish' belly would hypnotise it. We were too young and excitable to try that with fast swimming fish...but that did come into practise when I had to catch large carp from a tank to move them to a pond lol!

 

[Paul_MTS]

the trick to catching bottom dwellers in the wild like stone loach, millers thumbs (kind of a plec) and eels is to place a landing net behind them...the way the rivers flowing, dig it into the bottom so they can't get under, disturb them from infront then hey presto they swim into the net!!

worked for me when i was catching fish on holiday when we weren't getting much from the fishing lakes

took 4 stone loach home aswell for the pond.

 

[balloon molly]

i have the acursed "friendly fish"syndrome.my fish trust me too much.i try to catch one and i end up with six in the net