CalBear91
Mar 7 2010, 05:13 PM
I bought two camel back shrimps to eat some unwanted polyps in my new tank, so now that they ate it all i want to take them out. any tips on catching them without taking out my live rock?
straydog
Mar 7 2010, 05:28 PM
Min only comes out after lights out . You might be able to hold off on feeding for a couple of days then take a net bend the handle so net is flat on the bottom and feed presoaked pellets in net till it comes to feed just remove food each day with net till it's hungry enough to be traped.( A six line will eat it if you want to go that route.)
CalBear91
Mar 7 2010, 05:48 PM
alright thanks i might give that a try!
My wife suprised me by putting two in the tank for me. Not really her fault the lfs sold them to her as peppermint shrimp. I caught them pretty much exactly as described in the prvious post. I put some food in my net and held it against the rockwork untill they basically got in. They are very curious bastards. At fist they would always get out as i raised the net up. So, I put the net near a power head. As I started to raise it out I allowed the flow from the power head to pin them in. Also, you can take a water bottle cut the top third off turn it upside down put food in it and palce in you tank. They swin in but cant get out. Didnt work for me it only caught my cleaner shrimp and the cambacks wouldn't go near him.
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