catching fish

i have a 210 gallon tank and my fish breed often and it not real easy to catch a fish out of it i normally have to drain it does anyone have any suggestions

i normal herd mine close to my net and snatch them before they realize wat i just did lol theyr a bit stupid tho since they r community fish lol

Turn the lights off for and hour then get your net ready and turn the lights on, you will have 5-15 minutes before they fully wake up and start running away.

hahahaha that sounds really funny fern. that gotta be really funny to see them just wait up then all of a sudden a net comes after them. theyr going lik aaaahhhhh its a monster!!!!

They take much longer to react when they are half asleep
Now if you go in there with a red light they tend to not wake up till you catch em.

hahaha this is funny. u know the best way to catch sleeping fish lol

When you have an 8 foot long tank you have to get inventive.
I have even made a stand alone divider net to drop in the middle of the tank so I only have 4 feet of tank to deal with.

lol nice!!! i may hav to do that too with my 100 gallon lol, i put 3 female bettas since they dont need the tank to cycle i threw them in there to help it start!!!

i use to be able to do that with the lights of then on but it dont seem to work the same anymore but ill keep trying maybe this time ill cover the tank with a blanket so it gets completely dark then do it
and the divider ill definetly do that that sounds like a great idea ill make one asap

thanks guys

and girls

lol not a prob but fern is the one that gav u help lol with her interesting ways

sorry bout that

hahah bout wat no worries !!!!

My Labeotropheus f. know the drill, drain the tank whilest removing the hidy holes and decor then the youngsters always try to hide in the moved gravel where decor was and the adults after all the times they've been threw it just hang at one end or the other.

but last time had a couple youngsters that were really JERKS!! so had to get out the handy dandy egg crate temp divider to catch them.

Turning the lights off worked a few times but they are way onto me now.

Use 2 big nets corner them into the glass.

tnanks im getting the nets there on order

I made my divider net. I made 2 T's with 1/4" PVC the long part was to the height of the tank and I got some heavy duty netting from a craft store and cut it to the width of the tank and stitched it around the PVC. I set it in the middle of the tank and move it towards the fish I want to catch so that they really get cornered. I can post a pic if you like?
I'm sure it could use some modification but all in all it works quite well.

post pic if not to much trouble thanks