How to catch a fish in a reef tank safely.

[the37thchamber]

:- I have an over stocked tank - i have a 29g with a pair of false percs, six line wrase, a flame angel, a sailfin, a firefidh, a barline goby, and a smiths damsel. I am happy with all of tm. Havent loss any yet and its about 6 months. I cant catch the damn damsel. I bought fish for specified jobs. like the goby to shift the san with the sandsifting star[ never cleeaned the sand and always white.. Damsel for eating non eaten food . Hair line algae-tang. cleaning parasites-wrasse. the wife wanted the pair of clowns. and my favorite fish is the fkame angel and fire fish. I kinda wanted to get rid of the damsel and fire but i dont know how to catch them w/o ruing the ereef.
running on a remora skimmer, a biowheel marineland pwer filter, 3 pwerheads no.1 and 3 hydors and a 1140 marineland pwerhead (teh water is really turbulent. , a bunch of spaghetti algae for nitrates and nitries at 0, Ca 440-460, Ph 8.2, Ammonia fluctuates from 0 - .25 I know too much fish.temp from 76-80, 4 PC lights, i only lost a manadarin whuch i had for 6 months forgot to buy tiger pods for 2 weeks.

I change 3percent of water twicw a wek/

I feed twicw a day. and leave lights on for 6-8 hrs.

I dont want t o lose any fish but i know i gotts let go of some- how many can i keep.

 

[LeviT]

wow..... get a fish trap, set up a 5 gallon bucket with a power head and some tank water and catch the fish 1 by 1 until you get the one you want. If you don't have a fish trap I've heard of peopl using a clear 2 liter bottle with a whole cut in it and when the fish goes in, pull it out. No matter what it won't be fun.

 

[tuberider]

A sailfin tang in a 29 is a bad idea, you do realize how large they get, right?

That's the first fish I'd get out of there.

 

[Raddogz]

Not to mention the one that probably contributes to most of the waste in tank.

 

[Roc]

Fish trap is the way to go, believe me I spent 3 days with the stupid 2 liter bottle trap in my tank making it look like the bottom of the bay and in 10 the fish trap caught the exact fish I wanted removed.

 

[sfsuphysics]

With a tank that small, get a rubbermaid trashcan (new of course), drain most of the water they'll be really easy to catch then, then simply fill it back up.

 

[the37thchamber]

Ty got the firefish, the damsel out. Ty for the 2 liter bottle trick . just got home and both ere in there.lmao

 

[MontanaBay]

I just take a fish store bag and clip it to the edge of the tank with some food pellets in the back, aim the opening into the water movement so it stays open, when the fish you want swims in, pull the bag up, twist, knot'n trade! The first time I did this my wrasse I wanted to keep kept going in and eating all the food, rather than refilling I bagged him and added another, then my perc went in, still not the target fish, so I bagged him too, finally I got the firefish in the third bag and then simply let the other two go.

Cheers,

Josh