Hey Wayne.
I took a 1 gallon clear plastic food storage container made by Rubbermaid
(it is square and came with a white lid on it) and put it in the reef on the
sand bed. I let it sit over night so the fish adjusted to it. I also went a
couple days without feeding the tank. 24 hours after I put the container in
the tank, I put a cube of frozen brine into the container at the very back
of it. I then left the lid on the tank open, stepped back, net in hand, and
got into my crouched ready to spring (very cat like) position. As soon as
the tang went into the container for food, I sprung on him with the net, and
covered the opening to the container so he could not escape. He freaked out,
and swam right out of the container and into the net. That was that and off
to the LFS he went. If he would not have swam into the net, I would have
just kept the net over the mouth of the container and lifted it out of the
tank....
Hope it helps!
Shane
PS. they also sell fish traps for this purpose, and most people say they are
the best $$ they ever spent. I just did not have the cash to buy one, and
this worked amazingly well.....this time.
-----Original Message-----
From: wayne mills [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 5:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Wanted to share....
Shane,
How did you get the tang out with out disturbing the aquascaping in
your display tank. I am experiencing the same problem with a Bi Color Angle
that just recently started doing the same thing to
a beautiful Open Brain that I have. I currently have the Brain
separated and it is doing fine. The problem I have is catching the Bi Color
without stessing or disrupting the other inhabitants
in the tank and possibly damaging some of my aquascaping.
Regards Wayne.
Shane Clays wrote:
> this with everyone. I had (key word, had) a foxface tang that I
had employed
> to help me get rid of the caluerpa I had growing in my main
display tank.
> Well, this fish decided that it did not have much of a taste for
caluerpa
> (or any algae for that matter), but instead really liked the taste
of my
> open brain coral as well as my Tridacna clams. He would pick at
them all day
> long, and the open brain quit opening up at all. Well, he no
longer resides
> in the display tank. One day after he was removed, the open brain
has opened
> back up fully and is on its way to recovery.
>
> FYI...
>
> Shane C.
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