getting a snowflake out of my tank

[clark4feathers]

I want to remove my snowflake eel out of my 28 gallon nano into a 80 gallon tank. Any ideas. I have a RBTA and a saddleback clown in the tank with him and that is it. Should I remove the rock and use a net? (I can borrow a big net from my LFS) Any experience with this would be great.

 

[TigerBarbs]

You could make a trap out of a 2 liter bottle and put a shrimp or squid piece in there.

 

[clark4feathers]

Really? He will swim into the bottle?

 

[TigerBarbs]

Usually they will look up soda bottle fish trap on google.

 

[clark4feathers]

Eel may be too big for the trap

 

[TigerBarbs]

Milk jug maybe?

 

[mikewest]

Mine was a baby but I put all my rocks in the middle and left him no hiding places.

 

[clark4feathers]

Ahh umm remember it is a 28 gallon nano....I know I should not have put him in there

 

[TigerBarbs]

Oh yea. Hmm u could tie fishing line to a piece of squid and when he comes out to eat it net him. I've even seen people straighten out the barb on a small fish hook and get fish out that way.

 

[clark4feathers]

I plan to make it a seahorse tank,, so i will remove the live rock to catch him.

 

[TigerBarbs]

O that makes it ten times easier

 

[tonedogz]

I had the same thing I put a silverside on the end of a thin stick and I had another person with a net and I lured him out and he grabbed him.