It seemed like a good idea at the time....

It seemed like a great idea when I dumped about 30 or so demasoni fry into my heavily planted 33 long. Last night when I was trying to catch the
now inch-long dems, it didn't seem like such a great idea....lol
I tore up a lot of dwarf chain sword, and had to take all the rocks and all out, but finally got them all, except for 2 or 3 escape artists...
maybe I'll have another go at them later on...
I'm thinking I will just keep that tank for my breeding bristlenose, and put my tetras and rasboras in there to look pretty....

I bet you had fun. Did it cause you to use language you don't normally use?

Have you ever tried the plastic coke bottle trick?

Ok, Iceblue, you have aroused my curiosity.
What is the plastic coke bottle trick?

yes, I have tried it, but the only the fish I didn't want went in it!
It worked OK with multies, but there's only multies in their tank, and I wasn't
picky about which ones I caught.
I may try it for those last 3 little stripey stragglers, though!

preacherboy wrote:Ok, Iceblue, you have aroused my curiosity.
What is the plastic coke bottle trick?

You take a plastic liter bottle and cut the top off about 1 to 2 inches below where the bottle begins to taper to the neck. Take the cut off top and turn it around and shove it in the bottle. This leaves a big opening for the fish to swim into and once they get by the neck into the bottle they have a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get back out. I normally would not feed the fish for a day or two and then put some of their favorite treats in the bottle before putting it in the tank.

Doesn't always work. But every once in a while you'll get your target fish. For some reason my labs always fell for it.

Thanks Iceblue for the tip!