Plans for fish trap?

[linkedsilas]

Anyone have plans on building your own? Measurements, instructions....etc? I have access to a laser cutter or I can just cut it out myself and some plexi/acrylic.
Ive tried making one with a jar and a sliding door, but my fish arent falling for it.
Ive tried the soda bottle trick...my clown went in it once, was able to break out and that was it for that one...
So, instead of spending a lot, Im going to try to cut my own.
Thought I would throw out some feelers
Thanks

 

[MnFish1]

Anyone have plans on building your own? Measurements, instructions....etc? I have access to a laser cutter or I can just cut it out myself and some plexi/acrylic.
Ive tried making one with a jar and a sliding door, but my fish arent falling for it.
Ive tried the soda bottle trick...my clown went in it once, was able to break out and that was it for that one...
So, instead of spending a lot, Im going to try to cut my own.
Thought I would throw out some feelers
Thanks

Well - if you take in the cost of your time, etc - my guess is you can rent - borrow - or buy a fish trap from an LFS much less expensively. This is fairly common here. But - this works. https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/s...MIlZmfoOuY8wIVGGpvBB3wtQlXEAQYBCABEgKXZvD_BwE

 

[linkedsilas]

Well - if you take in the cost of your time, etc - my guess is you can rent - borrow - or buy a fish trap from an LFS much less expensively. This is fairly common here. But - this works. https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/s...MIlZmfoOuY8wIVGGpvBB3wtQlXEAQYBCABEgKXZvD_BwE

No place around me has one to rent...already asked.
Ill look into this trap.

 

[MnFish1]

By the way - to get the fish into the trap can be tricky. One way to do it is to surround the trap with rock or something - so that its like a cave - rather than a clear area. Leave the door open and feed the fish for 3-4 days until they are used to it . Then - once they are comfortable - it is easy to catch

 

[RobB'z Reef]

By the way - to get the fish into the trap can be tricky. One way to do it is to surround the trap with rock or something - so that its like a cave - rather than a clear area. Leave the door open and feed the fish for 3-4 days until they are used to it . Then - once they are comfortable - it is easy to catch

Exactly, my acclimation box pulls double duty as a fish trap. Works gud.

 

[linkedsilas]

By the way - to get the fish into the trap can be tricky. One way to do it is to surround the trap with rock or something - so that its like a cave - rather than a clear area. Leave the door open and feed the fish for 3-4 days until they are used to it . Then - once they are comfortable - it is easy to catch

i had no problem with the one going in the bottle, its just he got out and decided to never try it again. This was a clown so I think I am going to try to raise the trap.
Going to leave it open a few days and make it a feeding station.
"operant conditioning"
I have trained many animals before including alligators , bears etc but never fish. So this will be a first

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

I have a friend who had an aggressive fish, he used the mirror trick on the outside of the tank, to give it a different target. After a few days it went back to attacking the other fish, along with the mirror. I cut him a small mirror out of an Acrylic Mirror, he caught the fish in under fifteen minutes.