flame angel nipping coral

[sarcophytonIndy]

Once a day and twice a day on alternate days

I have a flame angel that is a model citizen, but I feed three times a day. Not sure if that’s the reason he doesn’t bother my corals

 

[Dennco2000]

I used a sabiki hook not sure what size they are but we use them for catching small pinfish and cigar minnows for offshore fishing. I did catch my anthias buy accident lol.

 

[DTz]

I used a sabiki hook not sure what size they are but we use them for catching small pinfish and cigar minnows for offshore fishing. I did catch my anthias buy accident lol.

Hurt any fish in process?

 

[Afterburner]

I used the sabiki hook method to get a slippery dick wrasse out of my tank. I caught him in the wild with a clear net as a baby about an inch long, and after a little over a year he was about 4" long and somewhat aggressive, but pretty smart and would disappear into the sand bed under a big rock every time I put a net in the tank. He had to go, so sabiki with some shrimp on it did the trick... had a hard time keeping it away from my Rock Beauty and Queen, but eventually he took the bait. He seemed fine when I threw him in my canal (I would only do this with a locally caught fish). Since then I built my own version of the acrylic fish trap that works excellent, but I catch most of my tank at the same time.

 

[Goomba_BC]

I have a yellow Corris wrasse I wanted to catch. I have the medium size version of that trap. Won't go near the trap. Even when I squirt the mysis into the trap. Every fish goes in a out without food. It's always the fish you want to catch that knows haha.

 

[Afterburner]

I have a yellow Corris wrasse I wanted to catch. I have the medium size version of that trap. Won't go near the trap. Even when I squirt the mysis into the trap. Every fish goes in a out without food. It's always the fish you want to catch that knows haha.

Try leaving the trap in the open position in your tank for a couple of days so they all get used to it being there and eventually he might go in. When I borrowed a trap from my LFS to re-home a Tang, he would not go in, so I left is there and kept feeding from inside it.... he eventually got used to it and went in but was not too happy when the door went down. Patients like everything in this hobby is the way to go.

 

[Goomba_BC]

Try leaving the trap in the open position in your tank for a couple of days so they all get used to it being there and eventually he might go in. When I borrowed a trap from my LFS to re-home a Tang, he would not go in, so I left is there and kept feeding from inside it.... he eventually got used to it and went in but was not too happy when the door went down. Patients like everything in this hobby is the way to go.

Haha. I had it in the tank for 2 weeks. I tried feeding from the tube, squirting food in there a while initiating feed..etc. I finally took the trap out into the third week. He even sniffed the food at the door.

The good news for the OP is that the angel was the easiest one to catch as it wasn't scared or oblivious to the trap.

 

[Jesterrace]

I have a flame angel that is a model citizen, but I feed three times a day. Not sure if that’s the reason he doesn’t bother my corals

It can help, but a lot of it comes down to the individual fish. You could have 8 Flame Angels in different tanks with different corals and get all kinds of different results. My Flame Angel was an all around jerk (bully to tankmates and coral nipper to boot), but my Coral Beauty Dwarf Angel has been a near model citizen.

 

[Jesterrace]

I have a yellow Corris wrasse I wanted to catch. I have the medium size version of that trap. Won't go near the trap. Even when I squirt the mysis into the trap. Every fish goes in a out without food. It's always the fish you want to catch that knows haha.

Have you tried putting a mirror in the trap?

 

[Goomba_BC]

Have you tried putting a mirror in the trap?

No I haven't.
I'll have to try that.
Thx!