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Snail & Fish Traps for the Aquarium
By unclescott from the Bring 'Em Back Alive department, Section Diaries Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 12:55:40 PM PST Tags: (all tags)

Stopped by Borders yesterday evening. Scanned Practical fish keeping. I still buy it there once in a while, but found one LFS which sells them for a couple of $ less. They had a couple of interesting new products on review. Two snail catchers were among the items featured. Both were clear, durable plastic.

The JBL Lim Collect lists at 7.67 Pounds/ $13.75 at todays exchange rates. [1 British Pound (GBP) = 1.7911 US Dollar (USD) and 1 US Dollar (USD) = 0.5583 British Pound (GBP).]

A veggie bait lures snails in. Unfortunately it also caught other stuff which had to be freed before they came to harm.

The Snail Harbor for 8.95 Pounds/$16.00 included packing and postage in the price, although I'm sure that is for the U.K. It seemed simply put together but efficient.

I'm not sure that a clean jar or small bowl baited with lettuce, cucumber, zuchinni or an algae tablet wouldn't be about as efficient if one empied it every so often. And if you like loaches ... ;)

In addition to a pest trap, designed especially for marine set-ups, they showed a couple of fish traps. Both gave the impression that the aquarist had to hold a trap door open and release it "just now!" which might be after a couple of hours!

They cost up to 25 Pounds/ $45. That makes an old fashioned net or even two in tandem seem pretty reasonably priced and efficient. ;)

There have got to be better fish traps available through the bait industry.

Catching dangerous pests like mantis shrimp in marine set-ups or fish out of well planted tanks or aquaria with huge rock piles makes such live traps a good idea.

Still... back to the lab guys.

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Snail & Fish Traps for the Aquarium | 4 comments (4 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Snail & Fish Traps for the Aquarium (none / 0) (#1)
by red illuzion on Wed Apr 28, 2004 at 09:27:35 AM PST

what people do for money. i'm sure, like you said, a do it yourself would be just as good as those. but i remember when i first started keeping freshwater fish, in a mag, i saw a trap for fish where there was food inside and the trap door closed, don't remember what triggered it, but they were supposedly better, in that they came out of the tank with the water and not netted. i'll try to find the article.

That would be neat Red. I'm continually (none / 0) (#2)
by unclescott on Wed Apr 28, 2004 at 10:04:28 AM PST

enchanted by the creativity of people. We even own a better mouse trap now. ;)

Don't have time this afternoon, but would like to surf the fishing pages and see if there are any "minner" traps small enough for aquaria.

Given time and room, herding a fish or fishes
into a jar may serve the same purpose. However I appreciate the phrase "herding cats" much more after trying to herd fish. :)

A bigger jar makes the task a little less frustrating. Maybe putting one of those baited 10" widemouth pickle jars in 11" of water would work best.

(Of course there are Apistogrammas and Nothobranchius who would never "think" to go up. It's a little sad to see them smacking into the sides of worm bowls.)

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Re: That would be neat Red. I'm continually (none / 0) (#3)
by Geo3383 on Wed Apr 28, 2004 at 05:39:55 PM PST

as a scout we use to make fish traps all the time for pan-fish fry, i would suspect a similar method could be used in a tank if you wanted to capture fish out of a over populated tank without stressing them out.

take any jar cleaned very well take some chicken wire fashion it into a cone take that cone and slide it into the jar just a little bit so you have the bottle neck pointed into the jar bait it with a heavy smelling product, fish swim in but don't swim out. it's very simple and works well. i would worry about useing chicken wire in a tank but the design would be the same.

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Re: That would be neat Red. I'm continually (none / 0) (#4)
by guppygirl on Thu Apr 29, 2004 at 02:12:34 AM PST

What if you were to use embroidery "paper", like from a craft store?? Instead of the chicken wire?

It's actually a lightweight plastic that is very pliable and comes in different strenghts, and sizes.

I read about using it as a cheap "DIY" alternative to a divider, from a member on this site.

I'll bet if you were careful trimming the edges, it could work.

Now, what kind of bait could I use that wouldn't trap my clown loaches? Hummmm.

gg
:o)

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Snail & Fish Traps for the Aquarium | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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