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I am about to Murder a fish...

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Convict27
, 06-25-2011 at 06:11 PM (2182 Views)
Over the last few days I have slowly noticed the decline on some of my SPS and my clams staying mostly withdrawn. I Could not figure out what was going on and it was starting to stress me out a bit. I was worried that something had drastically changed in all my parameters just to go and test and everything was in order. Well this morning I woke up and the first thing I do is go straight to the tank to see how everyone is doing and to do a headcount. As I am watching the tank, I noticed my Saddle Toby is nipping at my clam mantel. After the clam fully withdraws and doesnt come back out, I see him go to my acropora and take a nice big bite and then go for desert at my Open brain! Inside I am wanting to go and commit fishicide! I am bound and determined to get him out of the tank and unfortunately I am probably going to have to completely disassemble all of my rockwork and corals to do it. Does anyone have any suggestions before I go and start tearing everything apart? If I do have to tear everything apart, what is the best way to take everything down without causing a cycle to start?

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  1. marks69's Avatar
    i had a damsel i had to catch and put in fishy jail. i just put the rock in buckets for the little time it took and never got a spike. you could also get a fish trap and try that. i used a clear 10 ro/di cover and some fishing line to catch mine. i just put some mysis in it and lowered it into the tank. when it went in i just pulled and the top came above water and he was mine. then i dropped it and had to pull all my rock, but it almost worked.lol
    that taught me not to sneeze when i'm working on the tank
  2. melev's Avatar
    You could make your own Tucker Trapper too. http://www.melevsreef.com/video/tuckertrapper2.wmv
  3. marks69's Avatar
    i love that. how much beer and chicken was involved with the making of it?lol
  4. melev's Avatar
    Hehe - there was a lot of time involved in the making of that video.
  5. Convict27's Avatar
    Ok, Task complete. Marc, I love your trap but I just didnt have time or all the scrap acrylic lying around I ended up just placing all of my corals that were not permanently attached to the LR in a bucket with water and then taking the live rock out and placing it in another bucket. I gave that Saddle Toby exactly what he would want and released him out into the ocean. While I did that I picked up about 10 gallons of water to do a water change with since I stirred up all the detritus that was under the LR. Now I get to spend the next month looking at the tank and wondering how to rearrange it. Fun times!
  6. melev's Avatar
    I thought it was a typo when I read your blog earlier. That name didn't ring a bell with me, but I just did a Google Image search and now I find out it was a cute little puffer you were worried about? Makes sense actually.

    Did you take it from the ocean? We normally highly discourage ever adding pets back into nature. Or were you joking?
  7. Convict27's Avatar
    Marc, You have to remember that I live right here on the reef and do all my own collecting. I actually bought this guy, but all of the fish that are offered locally in the LFS are collected right here on our reef. I have seen a ton of these guys while I have been out diving.
  8. melev's Avatar
    Ah. If you are simply putting back what you recently took, I don't see the issue. Had it been with you a long time or if you were adding it to the local ecosystem when it wasn't normally present (like the lionfish off the Florida coastline), that would be a situation for sure. Thanks for clarifying for us.
  9. kayl's Avatar
    Your username is perfect for this blog title...