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05-13-2006, 02:10 PM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
Posts: 1,438
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Gone Fishing
I am trying to catch my Hardwicke Wrasse with a "denvig" type trap: a small reptile container with a door that closes using an elastic . The door is kept open by a popsicle stick tied to my "fishing pole". I just pull the fishing string when the fish enters to eat the food inside attached to a piece of rock with elastics.
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05-13-2006, 02:11 PM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
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Not going too well though.....everyone is interseted in the food, except the stupid wrasse!!!!!!!!! He is scared of the container even though the container has been in the tank for days.
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05-13-2006, 07:37 PM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
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Hey Dennis, my trap isn't working....any suggestions ?
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05-14-2006, 11:21 PM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
Posts: 1,438
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First Catch!
Well I caught a fish with the trap...the wrong fish. My Naso Tang eneterd the trap and could not get out even though I did not shut the trap door!
Boy he was pissed! Seemed like turkey basting the mysis around so that it floats out of the top of the tap is what got him to go in. The Hardwicke Wrasse goes to sleep early and was nowhere to be found....but tomorrow is another day! |
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05-18-2006, 09:35 PM
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65 Gallon Reef
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Chelsea, MA
Posts: 885
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i went fishing but for a camelback shrimp. It was horrible i tried everything for about 2 weeks. I finally got sick of it and ripped apart my tank and finally caught it.
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06-16-2006, 12:00 AM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
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After reading an article on catching fish, I think I am REALLY going fishing for my wrasse. I have some really small hooks. I just need to cut of the barbs and get some good bait...like squid that won't slip off the hook.
Probably will try it this weekend...then I cab replace my cleaner shrimp once I succesfully catch the wrasse.
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06-16-2006, 06:04 AM
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slow down...
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Stoneham, Ma
Posts: 682
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you can use a file to make sure the barb is gone..good luck (but the fish is a beauty-to bad it has expensive taste)
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06-16-2006, 06:56 AM
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Duper Mod !
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Illinois
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Originally Posted by Chuck Spyropulos
After reading an article on catching fish, I think I am REALLY going fishing for my wrasse. I have some really small hooks. I just need to cut of the barbs and get some good bait...like squid that won't slip off the hook.
Probably will try it this weekend...then I cab replace my cleaner shrimp once I succesfully catch the wrasse.
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My husband was able to catch a wrasse out of our tank with a hook It was quite entertaining
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06-16-2006, 01:57 PM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
Posts: 1,438
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Fishing
A fishin' we will go!
A fishin' we will go!
To save our little cleaner shrimps
A fishin' we will go!
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Originally Posted by dobejazz
My husband was able to catch a wrasse out of our tank with a hook It was quite entertaining
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06-17-2006, 12:39 AM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
Posts: 1,438
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I got my tiny hook...and I grinded the barb off. So tomorrow ....it's fishn' time!
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06-22-2006, 09:05 PM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
Posts: 1,438
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The hook was useless. I found directions for a better trap. It is basically a box with a sliding trap door. The cool thing about it is the feed tube that runs from the top of the trap to the surface of the water in the display tank. The fish are fed for a few days via the tube and then you hold the line and let it go when the right fish is in the box.
I am making the box out of "non-clear" acrylic as suggested by someone online in another forum. The clear acrylic supposedly confuses and scares the fish.
I'll post pictures of the trap when it is completed by the weekend, I hope!
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06-24-2006, 10:06 PM
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North Shore Marine & Reef
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Saugus, MA
Posts: 1,438
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Finished the trap today and it is in the tank. I am feeding only through the feed tube and several fish are hanging in and around the trap....but not the Hardwicke Wrasse yet. Hopefully he will mimic his buddies!
I'll post pictures of the trap later tonight or tomorrow.
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06-25-2006, 11:42 AM
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65 Gallon Reef
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Chelsea, MA
Posts: 885
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yeah im curious to see how it came out
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Massachusetts North Shore Marine and Reef Club
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