how to catch a mini puffer in a reef tank?

[malulu]

i got this EVIL fish (Jewel Puffer) in my big tank, i am sure he is the one that eating all my great color zoas!!

anyone have any suggestion how to get him out? a fish trap probably be a long shot, since i don't see him eating anything at all, and he is in between rocks 90% of the time.

thx for all comments and suggestions.

 

[onefish2fish]

zoos in a trap or a night with a net

 

[malulu]

zoos in a trap or a night with a net

would you mind to let me borrow some zoas?? (just kidding...)
all my nice ones are all gone!!!

 

[onefish2fish]

come by and ill give you some brown palys, PM me if your interested.

 

[Nickjr000]

A real small fish hook and go fishin. It's the only way i got unwanted fish out of my reef

 

[adesimone1]

Is he aggressive at feed time? Does he go to the top to take the food? If he does how I caught a lot of my fish is I take my bowl I use to thaw out my food. And my guys know my bowl, put it right in the water and they will swim right in.

 

[Scottyrock]

A real small fish hook and go fishin. It's the only way i got unwanted fish out of my reef

sadly enough, i think my boy nick is right... real small hook and maybe a crappy zoa on the end. have fun gettin him off the hook!

 

[Brian]

If you do use a hook, make sure to take the barbs off it. It makes taking the hook out MUCH easier and will do less damage to the fish.

 

[shipwrecked]

I agree, a fish hook and pepperoni worked for me with damsels and a angelfish.gd luck

 

[Scottyrock]

good idea with the barb brian!

 

[Nickjr000]

Pepperoni hahaha nice shipwreck! Yeah i use a hook for fly fishing it's barbless. Just don't let em swallow it try for the lip. I haven't damaged a fish yet. Actually I'm going fishin for my bicolor next week!

 

[malulu]

thanks for all the ideas, and thx for the offer, and a small hook will work - as you can see he got a very small mouth? i will see what i can do...
thx

- i never see him picking on any thing i fed.
- I never see him picking on any zoa either during the day time.
- i have tons of brown, green zoas, and he ONLY touch the BRIGHT colored one, like these ones (see below), i have a fist size nice watermelon-zoas, and he clean it within 2 days.

 

[Nickjr000]

By the way the tank looks good!

 

[malulu]

By the way the tank looks good!

thanks, but it not near to 50% of the greatest condition it have before... (due to lack of cares, and this great zoas disapearing incidents!)

 

[Nickjr000]

I know the feeling. I have an angel now that's nippin at too much stuff and has to go. I had a damsel in the past that ate all my zoos. Real annoying

 

[ricwilli]

I didn't have the guts to hook my Hippo tang. The fish trap was not working either. It didn't want any of the food I fed the tank. All it wanted to eat was my zoos. So what I did was, grabbed a box of ziplock bags and plugged all the holes it can hide in. Divided the tank in half with eggcrate and scooped it out with a fish net.

 

[ClimberChris]

I recently had an issue with a neon dotty back and luring him to the top with a new food (mysis shrimp) worked wonders. I was able to snag him after a few tries and off to a friend's tank he went

 

[malulu]

I didn't have the guts to hook my Hippo tang. The fish trap was not working either. It didn't want any of the food I fed the tank. All it wanted to eat was my zoos. So what I did was, grabbed a box of ziplock bags and plugged all the holes it can hide in. Divided the tank in half with eggcrate and scooped it out with a fish net.

i will try this may be this coming weekend.
thx