How to remove an agrssive fish

nport19 · Mar 1, 2017

hello everyone,
I currently have a 29 gallon biocube with 4 smaller fish in it and a few corals. I have a sunrise dottyback in there right now. He's been in there since the beginning which is almost three years now. He has become a problem lately because every time I go to put a smaller fish or shrimp in he will bet the crap out of them until they die. He also pushes around the other fish in the tank as well. Any ideas on how I could remove him?

125mph · Mar 1, 2017

You're lucky its a small tank.. Couple methods:

1.) Is fish trap and lure him in.. sometimes this works, sometimes not

2.) Remove rocks and take him out

USNDoc · Mar 1, 2017

That's what I say is same thing. You could always shoot him like I want to my damsel that I can't get out of my 125 gal tank

eatbreakfast · Mar 1, 2017

Amsmall mirror in the back of a fish trap works well.

Webslinger · Mar 1, 2017

a micro hook and a piece of shrimp works for me. Fishing from the coach is always fun.

http://www.tenkarabum.com/micro-fishing-hooks.html

don_chuwish · Mar 2, 2017

Never another dottyback for me! Had one that would shoot across the tank in a flash and bite off the eye stalks of the hermits. He went back to the LFS. Drain the tank down kinda low and use something as a partition to wall it off into a corner where there is nowhere to hide.

Frop · Mar 2, 2017

nport19 said:
hello everyone,
I currently have a 29 gallon biocube with 4 smaller fish in it and a few corals. I have a sunrise dottyback in there right now. He's been in there since the beginning which is almost three years now. He has become a problem lately because every time I go to put a smaller fish or shrimp in he will bet the crap out of them until they die. He also pushes around the other fish in the tank as well. Any ideas on how I could remove him?

You're going to need a more aggressive fish to crush him jk