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why are mine so smart? I was observing them and they liked the smell of the shrimp pellets but are just unwilling to go into the trap.
I even managed to get a small discus in there!!!
Dr.V i totally agree with you about ottos. they are so much better the BNs and dont look as ugly. they are nice and peaceful and dont fight amongst each other.
These are the worst fish for getting out of a tank IMHO.
I moved house recently and these were the only fish I couldn't get out. In the end, I had to move the tank with them still in the bottom. Very little water in there but they survived for 2.5 hours - just seemed to drill themselves into the substrate.
Sorry - I can't offer any tips but would agree they are the first to chase food (and the first to run from a net).
Chris
i spent way too long trying to catch mine and stressed a discus out -he didn't come good.
one swam into a terracota pot and i threw the net over and scooped him out!
the other wasn't as dumb
- my next theory which i posted in catfish section - is to get a plastic mesh and section of a bit of the tank
round him up into there - close off the section and try your best
i am hoping at least that way i can struggle for hours without stressing the others!
Maybe mine were just dumb. mine had(Have) a bad habbit of trying to wedge themselves between stuff. their favorite is between the intack of my aquis 2400 and the glass, the next is in'under some of my drift wood. I just scooped them up with a net
next time you are in melb - come round!!
the other day i was wishing that someone had invented a really tiny spear gun!!!
I haven't taken my loach out yet but will be taking back to a LFS very soon.
I have found out why they are very hard to catch in my tank after cutting back or pulling out a lot of the plants.
The loaches seem to be very happy burrowing under the glosso that I have and in some instances, have also burrowed into the substrate.
I am really tired of these fish as they are so disruptive in such a quiet tank and they have stirred up so much stuff and dislodged new plants it is hard to replant a tank with them in.
I have to YoYo loaches but they seem to be leaving my other fish alone.
Tried catching them once but it turned out to be futile.
Only thing is they keep flicking and I'm worried they have some sort of parasite.
The Clown loaches are fine though.
My yoyos also like to flick, i'm convinced they do this to move bigger rocks so they can burrow into the substrate, as mine only do it in 2 spots near my big piece of drift wood.
My yoyos picked the eyes out of my cories and were nipping on my discus. Had to take them out.
Lower the water level helped me to catch them.
I tried the pvc pipe but only managed to catch my clown loaches, they squeezed into the tube but the yoyos didn't even come close to going in, way too smart!