Need to remove a Yellow Clown Goby
 

This is a first for me. I have a beautiful Yellow Clown Goby, but he's eating my acros at a break neck speed. What are my options for removal? 150g display with 300 lbs of rock. Lots of places for the little bugger to run to, so I guess a trap is in order. Any recommendations?

Thanks!

Scott

This is an easy trap that works: [url]http://www.floridadriftwood.com/fish_trap.htm[/url]
Good luck. I had the same problem with a couple of them a few years ago.

thank you!

hook, line and sinker, sorry..to many rum and cokes

Oh, I am glad to hear that little habit! I am---was---thinking of getting one. It's the sand-gobies for me, for sure!

If he has a favorite food [besides acros] try feeding it in a net, takes several days of confidence-building.

Coke liter bottle cut at top and insided out will also make funnel trap, hard for some critters to figure out.

I caught mine with a clear container, he'd taken up constant residence on a plate coral to the point of recession so I put the container over it and got him, took a lot of tries and this was in a nano.

scare it into a piece of coral that is on a small rock then take it out of the water and shake it over a net :)

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11488718#post11488718 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by zemuron114 [/i]
[B]scare it into a piece of coral that is on a small rock then take it out of the water and shake it over a net :) [/B][/QUOTE]
Agreed. They cling to the coral when scared. They won't leave it even if the coral is taken out of the water. Thats how I caught mine.

I've tried to do that a few times, but he keeps running into the rocks. I was thinking of tieing a piece of this sewing thread around one of the branches of acro and lifting it out that way so that my big scary hands don't run it off!

I got lucky mine would always come to the front glass when I was by the tank so I was able to just grab him.

Slurp gun

At night is the best time, I took the acro colony where they liked to sleep in and shake them off.

I turned off the lights early and caught myself a yellow clown goby within 10 minutes. I had a string tied around the acro it was in and pulled it right out!

Now to find a home for the little bugger