Do you think you could catch any of your fish by hand?
 

My male hooded fairy wrasse has to be one of the most curious fish I have ever kept. When ever I am in the tank he is right there with me. It doesn't matter what I'm doing rearranging, cleaning the glass or even when I have my camera in the tank (which as most people know, seems to send most fish into the rockwork). I am quite certain I probably could catch him with my hand. Im gonna attempt to get a pic of it:mrgreen: Sorry for the blurry pic but the camera wouldn't focus on him that close.
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Great picture of the wrasse (focus or not :lol:)

I was moving fish over from my 75g to my 115g last little while, I pretty much did catch my CBB by hand (I used a pop bottle though, put some mysis in, he swam right in). My sailfin, same thing, always super tame (knows hands means food), so I stupidly tried the same thing (shooing him into a container with my hand). However, he was wise to me now that he saw the CBB whisked away ... and I ended up with a gash in my thumb for my efforts. "I may be tame, but I'm not stupid, and I have sharp pointy bits which I will use to my advantage when needed."

My CBB is the same way, I have a hard time keeping him out of my hands when my hands are in the tank.
He also has no problems coming nose to nose with strange kids who put there faces right up against the glass :lol:

Excellent pic! That's a fish with character!

Great pic! He looks like a real character!


I've caught my chromis repeatedly with the little 1/2 cup tupperware thing I use for defrosting food while scooping up water, and all my fish (besides the yellow wrasse) swim freely thru my hands as I like to hand-feed....though I won't try to catch any of the pointy-bitted fish that way!

My crosshatch trigger just does not give a damn, I can put a hand in the tank for cleaning, even swat him away and he still continues to swim beside my hand (not to mention that it has bit me many a time or two, I figure it will really suck when he gets bigger). So it just happen that as I was mounting a frag today I decided to see if I could catch him with my hand and the answer to that is yes, it was quite easy to do.

I love that shot. What a cutie. If a guy can be that. I am in love...lol

If a guy was like that, he'd be more interested in other fairy wrasses!

nice pic, u got a keeper there.

i have a couple fish that would have to be caught by hand sine their arnt any nets bigenough, that is if they didnt bit your hand off first

My Ember Blenny sat on my arm today while I was cleaning the tank

My ocelaris clown fish both will let me pick them up out of the tank. They litterly swim right into my hand when I put it in the tank.

Chris

I could catch my maroon clown, my frogfish and my fu manchu by hand :)..one would hurt though...

trying to catch a damsel in my friends once we accidntally caught is clowns 4 or 5 times hahaha they're just super tame hahaha

My first clown fish was so easy to catch I used to just put a plastic bag in the tank and she would swim right in. I moved that clown 5 times in the seven years I had her and every time she would just climb in the plastic bag, no fight or fuss...maybe she just liked to travel :lol:

Chromis are so stupid I think I could catch them with a tea spoon. If I held my hand over the water with some food in it, I'm sure they'd jump right into my hand.

My dwarf lion would be easy to catch...he is overly friendly I could hand feed him most nights......haven't tested any of his spines out yet and hope to keep it that way

I used to grab my naso tang and move him out of the way when I was working in the tank. It would eat from my hand and was easy to catch by hand. My niger trigger is easy to catch as well and has on occasion has actually jumped right into the cup I use for feeding.:lol:

A few years ago, when I bought a 6.5' long plexi tank from someone in Vancouver, the bright guy gave away his only net and didn't have any way to catch the fish out when I went to pick up the tank. He drained several buckets of water into his bathtub, then we caught all 50+ fw fish by hand. He was very bad at it so I sent him away. I ended up having to catch discus, catfish, plecos, tetras, angelfish & all sorts of other fish by hand that night. It would have been so much faster & easier with a net.

Anthony

Hello,

Awesome shot. What camera did you use?

Titus

My old CBB was like that. I actually used to "pet" him.

I could catch my Naso, I also pet him sometimes, although I wouldn't try to hold him.

Believe it or not its a pentax optio waterproof point and shoot. I ve been really happy with it so far.


Ok....I dont think we can count clown fish....we all know that if there is a fish that we keep that is mentally challenged....its is a clown fish. I also catch my female clown on a regular basis in the feeding cup.