Help please... Damsels

[Cole.mormon]

How can I catch the damsels in my tank?
They are complete ******** to my other fish
Eating coral ect..

 

[WIReefer]

Had the same problem with a damsel when I first started keeping saltwater fish. I tried almost everything in the books broke down and bought a fish trap took a couple days but got him.

 

[mattzang]

https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/l...-AjheyW4WZTPLJdVYUFRrJjDnN5FlrbsaAh8CEALw_wcB

 

[Orm Embar]

https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/l...-AjheyW4WZTPLJdVYUFRrJjDnN5FlrbsaAh8CEALw_wcB

That looks like a nice trap! Area for food as bait, and hanging off the top lid so you can hit the door easily

 

[Jeffcb]

My LFS offered to loan me one. You can ask.

 

[Cole.mormon]

Ty for all the responses

 

[smol_reef]

I've also used one of those liter soda bottles, cut off the top, and put the spout portion facing inside of the cut open bottle, if that makes sense. Put some food inside to lure the fish in, and then because the opening is smaller, the fish has a harder time swimming back out. Might be too simplistic and easy for the fish to swim back out before you notice that it's in there, but it's at least a cheap way to try?

 

[4067steve]

I had (3) 3 striped damsels that were the same.
me my wife and my daughter spent about 2 hours and pulled about half of the rock out of the tank, 120 gallon 6 foot tank
We pinned them to one side of the tank with egg crate.
But we got um ......