Nuisance Fish Removal Service

Thanks for the laugh Rob.

In (South) Korea they eat dog, IIRC they had dog farms where they'd raise them for slaughter.

also if you go to mofib you can find the data I recorded on the warpaint gobies (mine were the first warpaint's documented breeding in captivity )

I've looked a bit. I agree that everyone says that on the forums...but anecdotal evidence is just anecdotal. This hobby has a wealth of anecdotal "facts" that are really just BS passed from one hobbyist to another. Given that an actual empirical study by biologists who analyzed stomach contents found a highly varied diet, I'm prone to believe the study.

In support, here's my anecdotal evidence...

If SPS polyps or mucous was a major dietary component, I believe my goby would have wiped out entire colonies over the last six months, not just irritated them. My evidence is this: if given the option, my little guy would eat brine until he couldn't sit upright on his distended gut. Given that he has that kind of appetite and given the amount of time he's gone a day or three without feeding, he would have torn through all the Acro in my tank in a couple of weeks. He didn't. He consistently ONLY picked at polyps in the area he regularly perched.

Anywho, thanks for the comments and thoughts!

BTW - love the taste of dog.

Lance I apologize,
I take reefing very passionately and hate to see any animal that we take responsibility of when we buy them and have to injure or worse yet kill when we don't read up on them before we put them in our tanks. Sort of like a sales person selling a tank set up an tells the nubi ok now go pick out the fish you are going to put in your tank tonight.
P.S. the X-Terminator mantis shrimp trap is a harmless trap to catch small fish and mantis shrimp without taking your tank apart, it at no point does any harm to the fish or shrimp.

I also Ran a retail location and worked in a wholesale / distribution set up. When I ran the retail location we would visit our distributors on a regular basis to see what the mortality rate was on shipments coming in to the wholesalers. We actually dropped many wholesalers because on the poor treatment of the livestock.

Bruce I respectfully disagree with you also, The fish, Beef, and Chicken we eat is caught or raised to sustain life and eat for nutrition. The fish that we have in our tanks are caught for no other reason than for some of us to have and say look what I have.

This is like politics everybody has their view.

Everyone is going to have a different view. While I wouldn't personally spear a nuisance fish, I don't see it much different then flushing pest crabs, snails, slugs, bristle worms etc.
However, desperate times call for desperate measures sometimes, and however we remove these critters should be done with as little stress as possible not just to the "pest" but the tank as a whole.
I had a large damsel that came with a tank set up I bought. It picked at all my coral and tore everything apart. I tore my tank apart, tried traps, nothing. Finally resorted in going fishing in my tank. (Barbless hook) he was such an aggressive feeder caught him first hook. Completely fine.


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This thread is bringing back some memories. Years ago I attended a sportsmans expo in bangor.. There was a guy showing off his new rubber worms by catching bass out of a huge fish tank. Years later I had a fish tank containing three smallmouth bass. Youd be surprised how much fun an ultralight pole can be. Barbless hook of course, and as it was catch and release only I dont think the fish minded much. Ive never speared a fish but if really needed to or was hungry I would. Depending on placement and size of the spearpoint Id say the fish might have a good chance of survival. If not you could always eat your catch!
Cheers.

I need the zoas he's sitting on lol

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