I had a chalk BAsslet one time that was giving me fits, and I made a
trap. It was sucessfull in removing the basslet. The trap I made had a
pivoting door, not the typical funnel type trap. It was merely a box
of clear acrylic 2" wide x 6" high by 8" long. one one end it had
adoor that hinged on a piece of clea round acrylic. Placed food inside
at back of trap, hung trap off aquarium rim, with pivot rod extending
up out of the top of the tan, fish see and smell food, if worng fish
went to go in the trap I merely closed the door, when right fish
entered I justy turned rod and swung door closed. Pieceof cake.

Short of a spear gun or dynamite Damsels are tough fish to catch ;-)
In a web based forum, it seems to be a pretty common agreed on method
to use a tiny hook and actually go fishing in the tank. I do not know
if I would go to that extreme, but I just refuse to rip my live rock
apart to catch a fish. And with what IU have read thehook method is
very quick and effective and does not really harm the fish as long sa
the fish does not swallow the hook. Hook also needs to be made in to a
barbless hook to facilitate removal.

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:56:49 -0500, KurtG
wrote:


I have a blue fin damsil nearing maturity and it's beating up my
dragonnet badly and my coral beauty showed up with wounds as well
(although I'm not sure what happened to it).

I pulled out the dragonnet, but the damsil is hard to catch. I tried
floating some food with the net ready, but damsil is quicker then the hand.

I see that there are fish traps. Do they work? Any other ideas?

--Kurt



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