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Post by angel on Apr 8, 2011 18:00:40 GMT -6
I'm trying a fish trap, which is made from cutting a plastic bottle's mouth off, and cutting it again at the first ridge of the full-sized body, then inverting the piece just cut off and putting it inside the bottle the opposite way. I've got a bit of food in there and so far no hits. Hopeful though! Anyone used this method before?
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Post by angel on Apr 8, 2011 18:02:47 GMT -6
Here's the link I used to make the trap.
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Post by rickl on Jul 18, 2011 13:44:40 GMT -6
I made one for my mom to catch their plecos (they had a rampant breeding pair in their 55 spitting out bushynose plecos left and right). Unfortunately the first time they used it, it sait in the tank for too long, i think the water in the trap got stagnant and many of the caught plecos died . I then poked a bunch of holes in it for her and she continued to use it whenever the pleco population got out of control... she took them in to Marine Fish and traded them for credit. Hers was made from a 20oz Diet Mt. Dew bottle -Rick (the armchair aquarist)
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Post by rickl on Jul 18, 2011 13:47:21 GMT -6
Oh, we didn't bother to take off the "lip"... just cut off the funnel shaped piece, turned it around, and shoved it back in the bottle (after adding an algae wafer). They occasionally caught another fish, but mostly got the plecos they were after.
-Rick (the armchair aquarist)
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Post by ree123 on Jul 18, 2011 18:33:43 GMT -6
This process with a slightly larger bottle, like a square gallon sized Hawaian Punch bottle. cut the same way, numerous small holes punched for H2o circulation, a few rocks added for weight to hold it down, and a heavy string to retrieve it, placed into a pond or stream, will retrieve numerous types of aquatics. Gotta keep a close watch on it though, because it can catch large and small creatures that when confined, will fight, kill, and consume each other. It can be very interesting what one can catch this way. Fun for kids for sure. :-)
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Post by rickl on Jan 21, 2012 18:06:14 GMT -6
I'm going to have to try that next time we're spending any significant amount of time near a stream... not to keep, but just to show the kids. My folks were contemplating an unheated tank, for species native to the north georgia mountains, but my dad's health declined and maintaining aquaria became too much for him.
-Rick (the armchair aquarist)
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