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Loaches... any kind! I was at racso's store a few months ago and a customer really wanted a loach from a display tank. Racso got stuck with the job and he had to take EVERYTHING out of the tank (probably about 40g or so) and dig around in the gravel. This ordeal went on for about half an hour or so, and still no loach. The customer felt so bad about it and he just said, ok if you can ever catch him just give me a call. It was entertaining to watch but I felt really bad for racso. When I got my yoyo loaches from them, his coworker couldn't catch them for anything. She also had to take everything out of the tank and chase them around for a few minutes.

Racso's oscar... whew was that ever a job! We finally figured out that it was much easier to put a bucket in the tank, wait for him to swim in, and WOOSH pull it out before he knew what happened.

The funniest thing I ever saw as far as netting goes was racso trying to catch his 8 inch African cichlids to reaquascape the tank. He was using a net that his syno had torn a huge hole in with his spike. As you can imagine, he'd catch a 3 or 4 of them, but plop plop plop they'd all fall out the hole before he could get them out of the tank

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For my striped raphael when I need to get him, I just take his driftwood out of the tank and in about 5 minutes he'll crawl out onto the floor.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

I got anotehr hard to catch fish, Stripped Raphael!

Mine was logded in a hollow off my driftwood and used the spikes on the pectoral fins to jar himself in! Was there for around 2 hours trying to get him, eventually had to grab his tail (hurt as it is covered in spikes) and pull it out while he was struggling to stay in! It was quite a laugh really

I'm going to ditto CoryAddict - having worked at an LFS, the all-time worst was a group of 3" mbuna. Worst, they were in a tank with a center bar. ARGH!

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We recently moved so fish from 7 tanks had to be netted My most difficult were the kuhlis. My spouse helped and I have to admit he's much better at netting than I am although my BNs definitely gave him a run for the money

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had to be my 9" golden nugget plec! I was a nightmare, didnt have a big net so had to try and use two small ones, had to move him from my mates tank to mine, after about 3/4 of an hour, we got him in the bag... put the bag down... "errr, do you know there's a hole in that bag" " oh ****!!" so i had to sit in his brand new car, with a 9" plec in a bucket on my lap, while we drove across town over speed bump after speed bump after speed bump!

1st place
fire eel
1. its really long
2.its really skinny so a big net with fine mesh is required
3. they like to wrap them selves around things like rocks and drift wood

2nd place
Kuhli Loaches
as
1. they like to dig
2. they are fast when you try and get them
3.they are bottom dwellers which are extremely thin so when you try and scoop them up you ushually just get a net full of gravel
4. they get into hard to reach places very easily
5. they like to hide during the day

3rd place
rainbow shark (my new fav fish)
1. is quick
2. likes to hide (especially in my big piece of hollow drift wood)
3. is so cool you never want to take them out of the tank

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''All the clown fish and yellow tangs in the world cant save you now!''

upside down catfish - fast, acrobatic when chased, and hug anything that provides some cover, including the handle of the net!! but with a six foot tank, just about everything is hard to catch.

We have always had trouble catching our little corys! Extremely fast for such little, fat fish

yea, tell my boss that we had plenty of nets, but the fine mesh she only ordered in 2"

tsk tsk, Tim..

Fine mesh nets are cheap and they'll save you tons of grief with our spikey finned, fishy pets

I hated catching pictus cats. They were easy to catch, but half of them i had to cut outta the net from their little spikes. I wasn't blessed with the cool nets

Anything that is small and fast in a large tank (like a danio in a 120g)

What was your nemesis fish when it came to netting him/her( to be political correct:%) )?

mine was Pundamilia nyererei

my peacocks bury themselves to

Small African cichlids are the hardest IME, and working at an LFS, I've caught just about every kind of fish.


In saltwater, many wrasses are hard to catch because they bury themselves in the sand.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

My green tiger barbs were definately the peskiest freshwater fish I've ever tried to catch.. Those and pictus catfish, actually, now that I think about it a little bit more.. With both types of fish I had to remove all the plants and driftwood to be able to finally snag them out of the tank.. Even then, my husband had to stand at one end of the tank with a net and chase them to me at the other end so I could finally scoop them up..

my african brown knife- i swear he has video game super powers of evasion. combine that with a 125gal tank, and imagine the headaches. at least i rarely have to net him.

i had a rtbs that i could not catch for over a year. 2 nets, diy traps- nothing worked. it died awhile back of old age.

i can definately see the advantage of smaller tanks.

mine would have to be a 7" Dojo in a tank w/ ~60lbs of granite (that were still in the tank and risking smashing the loach) that a friend an i were reaquascaping, and i realized how filthy the water was, when it got all stirred up and you couldn't see from the front to the back of the 55, the 1st dojo was easy, but the second......... GRRRRRRR

I personally don't find plecos that hard to move at all, my ~8" sailfin, simply swims into the palm of my hand when i put it next to her, and she'll just start sucking on my fingers, and she swims right into the next when i tap her a few times w/ it........ hmmm, maybe i got a sweety

Daka

Last edited by dakafall at 17-Jan-2005 23:34

Last edited by dakafall at 17-Jan-2005 23:35

i was helping my friend redo his tank and we needed to move his fish to a temporary tank while we were redecorating. we scooped his 7" common plec into a net and transported him to the other tank across the room. half-way there, he jumped out of the net and narrowly missed my friends neck (it must have been at least a foot long jump) and he took a solid drop to the floor 4 feet below. anyways, the ferocious vampire plec died about a month later