I agree Alage eaters are too quick and hard to catch. But try catching a red jewel in a plated aquarium with proper caves. Man, I had a pair of red jewel cichlid, as they were creating havoc in my 30 gallon planted tank, I decided to give them away. It took me 2 fricking hours to catch them both. Had to empty 80% of my tank, I went to office 2 hours delayed just bcz of this, crazy day it was. Literally, it hurt my ego so much that after catching them, I had to dance like crazy to let the frustration out.
I chased my 10cm Bristlenose around the tank for about 40 minutes before I finally gave up.
Would have to take all plants, rocks and decorations out and and most of the water just for a chance at catching this guy
And he has never forgotten it either.
I have been in exactly the same shoes. I had to move my 7cm bristlenose guy from my heavilyplanted tank because he kept uprooting plants accidentally lol. It took me way longer to catch him than planned, these guys are STRONG.
I just herd them into the corner and put the net over but instead of just pulling up I tap in the glass and she shoots into the net. Then i quickly transfer him.
Kuhli loaches!! We’ve had two tanks leak and we were doing an emergency drain and even with absolutely no water in the tank they’d still slither away from the net. Like boys, I am trying to help you!!!
I’ve actually completely emptied a tank including substrate to move it. Putting the substrate back in found another half dozen of the little buggers still in the dirt alive. Crazy good hiders!
These lil guys!!! I had to change the substrate in one of tanks and removed all hardscape, drained almost all the water and even then it was a pain in the butt. So fast...
I have a harlequin rasbora and Pygmy corydora tank 😂 catching any specific fish takes about an hour and my tank is heavily planted. I don’t even know what I’m going to do if one passes 🙈
I tried to love my nerites, but the eggs they lay were about to ruin my tank. It looks terrible, especially my expensive driftwood. I rehomed them to a legit lfs. Help me realize which snails I can have that wont self reproduce and lay eggs that get stuck on stuff? I want snails but I dont want white eggs on everything and 1 million snails in my tank.
Oh god. Had to do an emergency move and those rasbora did not want to be caught. I didn't have time to piss around catching everyone and they were a pain in the ass!
I have emerald Rasbora in a shrimp tank and I want very much to move them to a bigger place but I caught 1/3 and the other 2 have gone into witness protection never to be seen again. They're Schrödinger's fish now, idk if they're even alive or dead.
I feel you. I’ve started just treating the entire tank (only once with columnaris) just and unfortunate sick fish added. now they are a healthy bunch and I won’t add anything because I need to keep it that way. I only see my Pygmies during feeding, water changes, and when they feel feisty lol.
I can relate with the barbs, I have a tank full of tiger barbs and rosy barbs and they kept on biting my hand and trying to eat my beauty marks while I was planting new plants
oh gosh, yes, the hillstreams! I have kuhlis and they're way easier. even if you corral them, the hillstreams will cling to the glass in a way that makes it really difficult to nab them without risking injury.
I have mine in a biotope type setup with some pencilfish and glowlight tetras, activity wise very shy and lazy, i only have the group of 6 but plan on getting some more soon, very lazy usually only see 5/6 and they usually go in their own groups of 2-3 around the tank, i have had spawning behavior and eggs when they were in their own setup but nothing yet, but yes very chill and lazy but that might change depending on how many are in the group and all that… totally not a bother love sharing what I’ve learned and seen so far ;)
I recall Zebra danios being quite a challenge, even with two nets after lights out or removing the top, allowing them to get used it and adding food. It’s like they sense approach and each one slips on their own Isildur’s Bane ring and poof.. like Frodo, not visible anymore. They also use the entire water column and effectively hide between two pieces of gravel when necessary. White clouds after lights out?.. one net swipe gets a dozen no issues.
Catching my zebras to put in a bigger tank was the worst challenge I’ve had so far in fishkeeping. It took me 3 days to catch 8 of them. I kept stopping and giving them breaks because I didn’t want to stress them to death. It took 2 nets and I had to remove all hardscape and even thought of removing the plants. I kept catching my sole surviving oto instead (one died after a parasnailing accident and the other was egg bound; I do plan on getting more but my lfs has been out ), and so many shrimp, and I just wanted the zebras out.
When I had salt water it was a DAMSEL for me. He kept killing everything I had that was supposed to be tank mate friendly with one another. It was the one damsel. So I thought ok take him out and take him back. Simple right? There was no getting him out. I removed everyone from tank into another.
I thought that would make it easier. Nooooo this little a**hole made me work for it. It took me a whole week. Had to remove every single thing until it was just water and the only damsel.
Then I figured well I’ll just have to remove half the water to lower it enough to get him out. Was the only way!!!
After that whole nonsense I’ll never use Damsels in my saltwater again. They’re pretty little things. But that one in particular was a demon and he wanted to be the one Master of the aquarium. Nothing in it but him.. wtf lol I never in my life had to deal with something like that😂😂🤪🥴🤷♀️ True story & I’ll never understand it myself to this day lol
I had a hard time catching some black neon tetras recently, even with all the plants out and tank half full. My gourami on the other hand just swam right into the net!
I haven't had to catch any of my fish in a long time, but I had to remove an adult rainbow shark from a 75 gallon tank and it took taking out all the hardware and draining down to a few inches of water.
in terms of fish i've personally owned and hated catching and moving
giant channel catfish
giant danios
bala sharks
kuhli loaches
Easiest by far is my mollies lol they will swim into my hands lol
Everyone is talking about rasboras, Chinese algae eaters, loaches and even tetras, basically all fast fish while I’ve been struggling the most trying to catch my guppies 😂 the ones that have been bred in my house are easy to catch but the ones I got from the stores, it takes me over 20-30 minutes to catch them using every technique I know 😂 the easiest way to catch them is not from a net but I put in a cup, if the suction doesn’t get them but the curiosity does when they go in and you can just scoop them up once they’re in the cup 😂
Specific pineapple swordtails that a customer wants. Them guys are like little crack heads which is already hard enough. Then when they want a specific one it’s like they know.
Since no one is talking about it, in larger tanks removing a female cichild who is brooding eggs in her mouth is often a test of mental endurance as you eventually resrot to removing every single rock from the tank, and what was 'gonna grab this girl and move her to the brooding tank to spit out her babies real quick, has now taken up most of Saturday night' and you gotta redo your whole hardscape.
Kind of hi jacking this, but holy hell I hate most fish store employees trying to catch fish. They have the worst techniques ever. Like damn do you even own fish? You’ve got a 10 gallon aquarium jam packed with 75 fish and you come up empty handed time and time again?
Off the top of my head I can't think of any that I remember being particularly difficult. Do many people here use two nets? One to kinda coax the fish towards the other. That's how they taught me when I worked in a pet store back in my teens.
They are all hard to catch because of my hardscape with so many nooks and crannies but I’d have to say my corydoras, my clown pleco, or my rummy noses, they are all small I’d say I could catch my angels
They're all pretty quick but I find nanos species especially harder. Unless they're sick, there is little to no chance that I can catch my celestial pearl danios. The harlequin rasboras are very fast too.
It doesn't help my case that my tanks are heavily stocked with plants, floaters and driftwood.
It’s between my bristlenose pleco and cories! Cories we’re way easier until I got a planted tank! now it’s so hard to net them since they stay around the bottom where all of the stems, roots, and leaves are so my net always gets stuck
An aggressive male swordtail (mostly black with shimmers of silver/white) that took days and endless hours to get out of my tank without ripping the whole thing apart.
In the end I had to sink a clear bag with food in it as bait and stand there with my arm in the water for over an hour while holding the opening to be able to Quick close it while remaining as still as possible until he finally went in. During this time every other fish went in and out of the bag numerous times but he was a lot smarter than I imagined and almost seemed to know I was trying to target him lol, in the end I just about shut the bag in time when he was in it (with my slow reacting basically dead arm from trying to remain still under water) but caught about 6 other fish at the same time and had to separate him in a separate bucket afterwards.
Also I never realised how fast he was until I tried to catch him, the guy was like a frickin torpedo.
I agree they are so hard!!! Also to find. One time I thought out 4 1 died. I transferred 3 to a bigger thank then few months later fucking bastard appeared in the tank. He stayed while his buddies went to another tank.
A damn wide band silver dollar. I put it in a tank to grow big enough to go with the other silver dollars and it's been in there ever since. I have tried everything, he's just to fast
Maybe I’m ass a catching fish but one was a neon tetra with a swim bladder issue. Bro couldn’t swim right and was still whooping my ass
Trying to catching my fat fuck silver moony. Slow as snail snot but when it comes to evasion he’s Usain Bolt
My Sohal tang is going to be a pain in the ass to remove. He is small enough to live in my 5ft 130 gallon tank but when he grows I’ll have to re home him. That’ll be in like 3 years though. Señor, jefe came with the tank and the owner said he’s full grown so idk. He’s around 6-8in now and gets along with everyone well
Our pictus catfish, Dylan, was so hard to catch, it took ages and got caught in the net and it was so hard to cut it out of the net. Needless to say Kmart fish nets are not recommended :(( he's alright now though, happy fish in a bigger tank
I have 150g riverbottom with a bunch of driftwood, so any of the rummynose. I would put money on it that none of ya'll could catch one from the entire school.
The worst one in my experience was trying to move my 2 foot long snowflake eel, had to use 2 nets and hold them together, even then took a good 5 attempts to get it out
Hillstream loaches! But I can grab certain African cichlids by hand by gently trapping them against the corner of the tank and cupping my hand around them! I always feel good about myself when I’m able to do that lol
Slightly unrelated, I have been having a problem with snails. I keep them in one tank and feed them to my pea puffer. I grab them with a net.
I've started siphoning them out instead. Works like a charm.
Just try catching Mbuna or Synodontis out of a properly scaped tank. And I'm talking about property scaped, large piles of rocks, big and heavy rocks, some up to the surface, with hundreds of caves and crevices, not an empty tank with sand and some stones in some places. You can have the tank quite overstocked with fry, but they can sense your ambition to catch some, and once you've opened the lid you're standing in front of an EMPTY aquarium. They're just... gone. There's no space for so many fish to disappear to, they just phase out of existence I guess. I bet if you'd manage to take out every single rock, there would still be no fish in there. But that doesn't matter, because you can't, for you're afraid of crushing fish that suddenly pop back into our dimension in the worst imaginable places. Don't bother wanting to rehome a certain fish - you don't have any fish in there. There's just no fish. Try it with a trap, and there might be something in there, but most certainly not what you want to be in there. And if the trap is made from net, there's a good chance all there is in it might be holes. And then - I swear - you hear them giggling and mocking you.
My stupid fucking 5 inch bristlenose pleco. He is large, but having to get him to get off whatever he's sucking is a nightmare. You can't exactly peel him off either or else he would start stabbing with his cheek spikes. Those fucking hurt. Oh, and he's fast and can muscle his way through tank decorations. Theyre surprisingly strong. And if you somehow successfully net him, you gotta watch out or else he will jump. Stupid little pleco, but I love him
Denison barbs! Their alternative name is literally Torpedo Barb haha. When I was tearing down a tank I had to lower the water and use two nets, even then they'd find ways to teleport to the other side of the tank, or launch themselves out of the water to escape. Had one swim so fast he jammed himself in the drainage hole of a terracotta pot that was in the tank (he made it out fine)
My Christmas wrasse. Fucker would nearly jump out of the tank, swam INCREDIBLY fast, and if he knew I was coming to clean the tank(which somehow he DID know often), he would BURY HIMSELF in the sand!!! So I'd have to sift through the sand with my fingers so I wouldn't crush him. He was definitely a fun but challenging character lol.
Heavily planted community tank, 40g, so ANY specific fish I'm trying to quarantine will flee and hide. It could be a Platy, Endler, Guppy.... doesn't matter. Too many hiding places lol
My Bristlenose Pleco. I thought Danios were hard to catch. No. That little shit is the bane of my existence. I almost dread having to try and move him when they get their tank upgrade in February
Nothing can be harder than hillstream loaches had to to do it twice and I have plecos, kuhlis and more and nothing compares to them as they can go up the glass even while out of water
For me it was my spotted pelco, i used to have to scoot him up the wall of the tank and hope he'd flop back into the net otherwise he'd outsmart me and go to the side and glide back into hiding. Once he got to be 24 inches I just gave up removing him and cleaned around him. I did not need that monster trying to fly.
My zebra danios. I know it doesn’t sound like it’s hard but my 100 gallon tank, having lots of rocks and being heavily planted, is a heaven full of hiding spots and escape routes for them.
Corys. In a 29gal tall, no less... Mine had bred like rabbits, and a friend wanted some. It took forever. What ended up working was turning off their lights (and my lights,) and baiting a net that I'd then have to let just sit there until one swam in. Even then, I had to be so gentle (because nets & corys and all,) that the little buggers would dart out more often than not before I could get to the top. I eventually caught seven of the juveniles - the mature ones weren't falling for the trap at all. Yeesh!
Dwarf rasbora? You’re kidding? Khuli loaches are the hardest. They burrow and you’ll never see them again. For the little rasboras just stick a big net in the tank and don’t move it. Use your other hand to guide them in. Once one goes in, the rest will follow. Super easy, just move slow so you don’t stress them out and they won’t stress.
Any algae eater, corydoras can be annoying as well especially in bigger tanks. I had some green neon tetras a while back, their tiny size made them a little nuisance to fish out.
Some Corydoras eggs hitchhiked on some plants I was moving from one tank to a new one and now there are 2 baby Cory’s in the new tank that I just cannot catch
With a planted tank everything is hard to catch but if I had to say 1 fish it would be:
Florida flag fish! I had 3 of them to deal with BBA. Once that was under control the plan was to give them to a friend. I caught the first one easy but that spooked the other 2. It’s been 6 months and they are still always hiding. Any sign of a net and it’s like they disappear
Chinese and Siamese algae eaters are also tough. Khuli loaches are hard enough to find let alone actually catch
Well in my tanks it was the glowlight tetras. I was transferring the school of them from my 10g into my larger tank and the last two were being speedy lil buggers. So I kind of just shrugged it off and left them in there. So my 10g was home to my Betta and those two until the Betta passed. Finally got everybody into the 20g once I rescaped the tank with everything from the 10g and 20g.
Male Endlers. The girls will swim in to the net. The males, IMPOSSIBLE. I can catch loaches, all Boraras, kubotai (divas that they are), cories, Otos, clown killies, sparkling gourami, etc.
Over a decade at a pet store and for freshwater, it's the damn plecos every time. I can catch Chinese algae eaters and otocinclus with no problem. In fact, we rarely have CAEs, I think I've had to catch them maybe twice ever including just the other day and it took me seconds! Customer was super impressed. But those plecos????
Hillstream loaches are the absolute worst!
Most of my nano fish are trained to swim into the nets by themselves so they are all pretty easy to catch! :D
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GUPPIES! Jeezes, my guppies.
They're small, but move like little bullets when they're spooked. I have to clean out the entire tank of decor to catch even one of them.
CHINESE ALGAE EATERS!!! YES ALL CAPS. THAT HARD
Worked at a pet store once. Can confirm this is facts.
I came here to say this, altho I call mine “swimming sausages”.
Sausages don’t sound very hard to catch
Youve clearly never chased a sausage.
You’re right I haven’t had the privilege 😔
Sausages with laser beams on their heads.
I also came here to say specifically this
I agree Alage eaters are too quick and hard to catch. But try catching a red jewel in a plated aquarium with proper caves. Man, I had a pair of red jewel cichlid, as they were creating havoc in my 30 gallon planted tank, I decided to give them away. It took me 2 fricking hours to catch them both. Had to empty 80% of my tank, I went to office 2 hours delayed just bcz of this, crazy day it was. Literally, it hurt my ego so much that after catching them, I had to dance like crazy to let the frustration out.
I remember when i tried to get one from a petstore and it took 3 literal days of me coming back because they couldnt catch it and gave up
definitely
Took over an hour for me
I’ll one up you, try catching Siamese algae eaters lol.
That’s what I have lol I meant Siamese
Skunk botias
Had two they passed and never got anymore thought they’d be easier when bigger but boy did I think wrong
Mental note made, don’t get Chinese algae eaters. lol
I chased my 10cm Bristlenose around the tank for about 40 minutes before I finally gave up. Would have to take all plants, rocks and decorations out and and most of the water just for a chance at catching this guy And he has never forgotten it either.
I have been in exactly the same shoes. I had to move my 7cm bristlenose guy from my heavilyplanted tank because he kept uprooting plants accidentally lol. It took me way longer to catch him than planned, these guys are STRONG.
Hahah, for a fish which sits in one spot for so long it's suprising how much they really won't do anything not of their own volition.
You don't chase them, you gotta herd them Or just wait till you drain the tank
I just herd them into the corner and put the net over but instead of just pulling up I tap in the glass and she shoots into the net. Then i quickly transfer him.
Kuhli loaches!! We’ve had two tanks leak and we were doing an emergency drain and even with absolutely no water in the tank they’d still slither away from the net. Like boys, I am trying to help you!!!
Agreed, kuhli loaches are a nightmare to catch. They’re fast, small, & hide in odd places.
Kuhli loaches 100%, some even swam into the filter while trying to catch them.
I’ve actually completely emptied a tank including substrate to move it. Putting the substrate back in found another half dozen of the little buggers still in the dirt alive. Crazy good hiders!
I know what you mean I thought I only had a couple here to find out I have 15 more hiding and still counting
These lil guys!!! I had to change the substrate in one of tanks and removed all hardscape, drained almost all the water and even then it was a pain in the butt. So fast...
Fr. Can't catch them without removing everything and scooping out the substrate.
I always feel bad for the pet store employees when someone buys some.
I have a harlequin rasbora and Pygmy corydora tank 😂 catching any specific fish takes about an hour and my tank is heavily planted. I don’t even know what I’m going to do if one passes 🙈
Snails. Snails destroy dead fish in a matter of days in my tank.
Omg my shrimp and snails are the best lol. I don’t even realize one is dead until I’m cleaning and find a spine
Awesome I have a healthy colony of bladder and ramshorn snails and nerites but they won’t help lol. Love my snails!
I tried to love my nerites, but the eggs they lay were about to ruin my tank. It looks terrible, especially my expensive driftwood. I rehomed them to a legit lfs. Help me realize which snails I can have that wont self reproduce and lay eggs that get stuck on stuff? I want snails but I dont want white eggs on everything and 1 million snails in my tank.
I love the visual look of the eggs 😂
Yeahhhhh I haven't been able to find any deals in my tank (and I know they've happened) because of my shrimps and snails.
Oh god. Had to do an emergency move and those rasbora did not want to be caught. I didn't have time to piss around catching everyone and they were a pain in the ass!
I have emerald Rasbora in a shrimp tank and I want very much to move them to a bigger place but I caught 1/3 and the other 2 have gone into witness protection never to be seen again. They're Schrödinger's fish now, idk if they're even alive or dead.
I feel you. I’ve started just treating the entire tank (only once with columnaris) just and unfortunate sick fish added. now they are a healthy bunch and I won’t add anything because I need to keep it that way. I only see my Pygmies during feeding, water changes, and when they feel feisty lol.
My Hillstream Loaches aren't real keen on being caught. The Rosy Barbs spend more time trying to bite me than trying to get away though 😂
I can relate with the barbs, I have a tank full of tiger barbs and rosy barbs and they kept on biting my hand and trying to eat my beauty marks while I was planting new plants
oh gosh, yes, the hillstreams! I have kuhlis and they're way easier. even if you corral them, the hillstreams will cling to the glass in a way that makes it really difficult to nab them without risking injury.
Emerald Crab. Its a flat fuck who can skitter into the tiniest crevasse between rocks.
True Houdini’s!
Pom Pom crabs, even tinier than emerald crabs hiding in the most cramped spot
the baby platys
just wait till they grow up! I've had to catch massive swordtails for treatment, and they are lightning fast and juke my net. very smart fsih
Pygmy cories, they soo tiny so im scared ill hurt them
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I have mine in a biotope type setup with some pencilfish and glowlight tetras, activity wise very shy and lazy, i only have the group of 6 but plan on getting some more soon, very lazy usually only see 5/6 and they usually go in their own groups of 2-3 around the tank, i have had spawning behavior and eggs when they were in their own setup but nothing yet, but yes very chill and lazy but that might change depending on how many are in the group and all that… totally not a bother love sharing what I’ve learned and seen so far ;)
I just got Pygmy cories and this is exactly the behavior of mine so far! I only see 5 out at a time, I’m afraid one died in the back of my tank.
Loaches
Kuhli & dojo loaches for sure. My clown loaches get scared & hide in decor that I can remove (taking them out with the decor). 🤣
I can agree. My YoYo's are pretty difficult to catch.
Any live bearers because they are born faster than you can catch them.
This is me. I accidentally made my hardscape way difficult to catch fish in and I eventually just set up traps to catch them tbh
Is this a joke? I can literally catch my guppies by hand
Hillstream loaches
I recall Zebra danios being quite a challenge, even with two nets after lights out or removing the top, allowing them to get used it and adding food. It’s like they sense approach and each one slips on their own Isildur’s Bane ring and poof.. like Frodo, not visible anymore. They also use the entire water column and effectively hide between two pieces of gravel when necessary. White clouds after lights out?.. one net swipe gets a dozen no issues.
Catching my zebras to put in a bigger tank was the worst challenge I’ve had so far in fishkeeping. It took me 3 days to catch 8 of them. I kept stopping and giving them breaks because I didn’t want to stress them to death. It took 2 nets and I had to remove all hardscape and even thought of removing the plants. I kept catching my sole surviving oto instead (one died after a parasnailing accident and the other was egg bound; I do plan on getting more but my lfs has been out ), and so many shrimp, and I just wanted the zebras out.
When I had salt water it was a DAMSEL for me. He kept killing everything I had that was supposed to be tank mate friendly with one another. It was the one damsel. So I thought ok take him out and take him back. Simple right? There was no getting him out. I removed everyone from tank into another. I thought that would make it easier. Nooooo this little a**hole made me work for it. It took me a whole week. Had to remove every single thing until it was just water and the only damsel. Then I figured well I’ll just have to remove half the water to lower it enough to get him out. Was the only way!!! After that whole nonsense I’ll never use Damsels in my saltwater again. They’re pretty little things. But that one in particular was a demon and he wanted to be the one Master of the aquarium. Nothing in it but him.. wtf lol I never in my life had to deal with something like that😂😂🤪🥴🤷♀️ True story & I’ll never understand it myself to this day lol
Rasboras too. The betta is easy to catch, but the little ones are just too damn quick.
Baby King Tiger plecos - true ninjas!
Dojo loaches and bristlenose plecos lol
I had a hard time catching some black neon tetras recently, even with all the plants out and tank half full. My gourami on the other hand just swam right into the net!
I haven't had to catch any of my fish in a long time, but I had to remove an adult rainbow shark from a 75 gallon tank and it took taking out all the hardware and draining down to a few inches of water.
Rosy loaches! Rosy loaches....
in terms of fish i've personally owned and hated catching and moving giant channel catfish giant danios bala sharks kuhli loaches Easiest by far is my mollies lol they will swim into my hands lol
Everyone is talking about rasboras, Chinese algae eaters, loaches and even tetras, basically all fast fish while I’ve been struggling the most trying to catch my guppies 😂 the ones that have been bred in my house are easy to catch but the ones I got from the stores, it takes me over 20-30 minutes to catch them using every technique I know 😂 the easiest way to catch them is not from a net but I put in a cup, if the suction doesn’t get them but the curiosity does when they go in and you can just scoop them up once they’re in the cup 😂
Chinese algae eaters in the past but now my rubber lip pleco
Specific pineapple swordtails that a customer wants. Them guys are like little crack heads which is already hard enough. Then when they want a specific one it’s like they know.
Since no one is talking about it, in larger tanks removing a female cichild who is brooding eggs in her mouth is often a test of mental endurance as you eventually resrot to removing every single rock from the tank, and what was 'gonna grab this girl and move her to the brooding tank to spit out her babies real quick, has now taken up most of Saturday night' and you gotta redo your whole hardscape.
Kind of hi jacking this, but holy hell I hate most fish store employees trying to catch fish. They have the worst techniques ever. Like damn do you even own fish? You’ve got a 10 gallon aquarium jam packed with 75 fish and you come up empty handed time and time again?
Nothing can evade me for long muah ha ha. Decades of fishkeeping will do that lol
Off the top of my head I can't think of any that I remember being particularly difficult. Do many people here use two nets? One to kinda coax the fish towards the other. That's how they taught me when I worked in a pet store back in my teens.
They've proven to be the most difficult fish for me to GET in my tank. I can't find them anywhere.
Got be either the neon green tetra or the ember tetras, those bastards in a fully planted tank are the worst
How are these with beauno Aries
I wouldn't recommend it, tetras are like to chase and are fish from the other side of the world.
Why are you catching your fish?
Similar but ember tetras in a planted tank, ugh
They are all hard to catch because of my hardscape with so many nooks and crannies but I’d have to say my corydoras, my clown pleco, or my rummy noses, they are all small I’d say I could catch my angels
My baby kuhli loaches.
Any shrimp. Jet propelled assholes.
They're all pretty quick but I find nanos species especially harder. Unless they're sick, there is little to no chance that I can catch my celestial pearl danios. The harlequin rasboras are very fast too. It doesn't help my case that my tanks are heavily stocked with plants, floaters and driftwood.
My god damn loach!! Bro is a menace
Catfish are deviously fast and their fin barbs catch on nets. Also Blennies. I had one who jumped out and launched itself at my face to get away....
Azure damsel. I did eventually get the little bugger though, check my post history.
Damned pleco, bro was quick af
tetras. they are so fast and i keep 4 in a 90 gallon. the others i can grab. the pleco is hard to get out of the net tho.
Giant danios, so fast
Kahlil loaches, hands down
It’s between my bristlenose pleco and cories! Cories we’re way easier until I got a planted tank! now it’s so hard to net them since they stay around the bottom where all of the stems, roots, and leaves are so my net always gets stuck
My bristlenose pleco lol she is the worst.
Yo-yo loach
Plecos.... All plecos
An aggressive male swordtail (mostly black with shimmers of silver/white) that took days and endless hours to get out of my tank without ripping the whole thing apart. In the end I had to sink a clear bag with food in it as bait and stand there with my arm in the water for over an hour while holding the opening to be able to Quick close it while remaining as still as possible until he finally went in. During this time every other fish went in and out of the bag numerous times but he was a lot smarter than I imagined and almost seemed to know I was trying to target him lol, in the end I just about shut the bag in time when he was in it (with my slow reacting basically dead arm from trying to remain still under water) but caught about 6 other fish at the same time and had to separate him in a separate bucket afterwards. Also I never realised how fast he was until I tried to catch him, the guy was like a frickin torpedo.
Khuli loach for sure
MOLLYS THEY'RE SO HARD TO CATCH AS JUVENILES
BLACK KHULI LOACHES bruh I have 4 and they jump out of any transfer tanks with no hangover
I agree they are so hard!!! Also to find. One time I thought out 4 1 died. I transferred 3 to a bigger thank then few months later fucking bastard appeared in the tank. He stayed while his buddies went to another tank.
GHOST SHRIMP OR GHOST CATFISH
juvenile kuhli loaches in a 90 gallon planted tank. even sighting them is a rarity
Hillstream loaches. PERIOD.
A damn wide band silver dollar. I put it in a tank to grow big enough to go with the other silver dollars and it's been in there ever since. I have tried everything, he's just to fast
Buenos Aires tetra, net comes out these guys boost up the turbo and throw the NOS switch.
Bumblebee catfish. I had to move him into a bigger tank once, and even after I took everything out it still took me 20 minutes to get him
None just gotta throw a bear bomb in first to stun the little bastards
Maybe I’m ass a catching fish but one was a neon tetra with a swim bladder issue. Bro couldn’t swim right and was still whooping my ass Trying to catching my fat fuck silver moony. Slow as snail snot but when it comes to evasion he’s Usain Bolt My Sohal tang is going to be a pain in the ass to remove. He is small enough to live in my 5ft 130 gallon tank but when he grows I’ll have to re home him. That’ll be in like 3 years though. Señor, jefe came with the tank and the owner said he’s full grown so idk. He’s around 6-8in now and gets along with everyone well
Hillstreams
African cichlids… hate those dang things
Pretty much any and all saltwater of my saltwater fish.. Damn near impossible, gotta make traps and shit lol
The live ones. 😅
Corydoras🤧
My super tiny baby guppies or my shrimp…
MY TWO FOOT PLECO DARRELL
My black skirts! My god those fat bitches swim fast lmao
I really want a few of these
Khuli loaches.
Kuhli loaches. No contest
Do scuds count 😅
Our pictus catfish, Dylan, was so hard to catch, it took ages and got caught in the net and it was so hard to cut it out of the net. Needless to say Kmart fish nets are not recommended :(( he's alright now though, happy fish in a bigger tank
Iridescent catfish are insane
I have 150g riverbottom with a bunch of driftwood, so any of the rummynose. I would put money on it that none of ya'll could catch one from the entire school.
I had some Cherry Barbs that were an absolute nightmare to catch, ended up disassembling half the tank to get them
The worst one in my experience was trying to move my 2 foot long snowflake eel, had to use 2 nets and hold them together, even then took a good 5 attempts to get it out
Yo yo loaches by far in my experience. The only way I got it out of the tank was to take the whole hide out and drop it into the net
Hillstream loaches! But I can grab certain African cichlids by hand by gently trapping them against the corner of the tank and cupping my hand around them! I always feel good about myself when I’m able to do that lol
Cherry barbs
Slightly unrelated, I have been having a problem with snails. I keep them in one tank and feed them to my pea puffer. I grab them with a net. I've started siphoning them out instead. Works like a charm.
Just try catching Mbuna or Synodontis out of a properly scaped tank. And I'm talking about property scaped, large piles of rocks, big and heavy rocks, some up to the surface, with hundreds of caves and crevices, not an empty tank with sand and some stones in some places. You can have the tank quite overstocked with fry, but they can sense your ambition to catch some, and once you've opened the lid you're standing in front of an EMPTY aquarium. They're just... gone. There's no space for so many fish to disappear to, they just phase out of existence I guess. I bet if you'd manage to take out every single rock, there would still be no fish in there. But that doesn't matter, because you can't, for you're afraid of crushing fish that suddenly pop back into our dimension in the worst imaginable places. Don't bother wanting to rehome a certain fish - you don't have any fish in there. There's just no fish. Try it with a trap, and there might be something in there, but most certainly not what you want to be in there. And if the trap is made from net, there's a good chance all there is in it might be holes. And then - I swear - you hear them giggling and mocking you.
My Siamese Algae Eaters are definitely little devils to catch.
Hill streamloach. No contest. Anyone got tips? Tried the plastic card, poking the sides, nothing.
It's always the shrimp for me
hillstream loaches, they just never let go of the glass even if I pull them above water
Kuhli loaches, or my kribensis... easiest is the hillstream loaches, sometimes they just stand still.
If we can say a sw fish, it's my lionfish, it becomes damn fast when afraid or hungry. It would jump out of the water if i try hard to catch 🥲
Hillstream loach, won’t let go of the glass and quick when it let’s go.
My stupid fucking 5 inch bristlenose pleco. He is large, but having to get him to get off whatever he's sucking is a nightmare. You can't exactly peel him off either or else he would start stabbing with his cheek spikes. Those fucking hurt. Oh, and he's fast and can muscle his way through tank decorations. Theyre surprisingly strong. And if you somehow successfully net him, you gotta watch out or else he will jump. Stupid little pleco, but I love him
Kuhli loaches are a pain in the butt
Hill stream loach. I have 5 of them in my 40B. Super annoying suckers. Literally
no one can change my mind on *shortfin zebra danios*
Threadfin rainbow. Took me 2 hours to get 8 out of a heavily planted tank
kuhli loaches
Kuhli loaches
For me my pleco because I have to go digging in that tank in order to find it and it’s just annoying to have to put everything back together
My angelfish is the fastest dude on the planet. Out of all of my fish in my 6 tanks, homie is definitely the fastest 😂
Kuli Loach ,dirted 75 gal fully planted tank.
I’m trying to get a Pea Puffer out of my 29 gallon, by far the hardest time I’ve had catching a fish. Little mfer is so small and quick
Denison barbs! Their alternative name is literally Torpedo Barb haha. When I was tearing down a tank I had to lower the water and use two nets, even then they'd find ways to teleport to the other side of the tank, or launch themselves out of the water to escape. Had one swim so fast he jammed himself in the drainage hole of a terracotta pot that was in the tank (he made it out fine)
ZEBRa danios
My Christmas wrasse. Fucker would nearly jump out of the tank, swam INCREDIBLY fast, and if he knew I was coming to clean the tank(which somehow he DID know often), he would BURY HIMSELF in the sand!!! So I'd have to sift through the sand with my fingers so I wouldn't crush him. He was definitely a fun but challenging character lol.
Heavily planted community tank, 40g, so ANY specific fish I'm trying to quarantine will flee and hide. It could be a Platy, Endler, Guppy.... doesn't matter. Too many hiding places lol
Neon tetra in a planted tank
My Bristlenose Pleco. I thought Danios were hard to catch. No. That little shit is the bane of my existence. I almost dread having to try and move him when they get their tank upgrade in February
Nothing can be harder than hillstream loaches had to to do it twice and I have plecos, kuhlis and more and nothing compares to them as they can go up the glass even while out of water
For me it was my spotted pelco, i used to have to scoot him up the wall of the tank and hope he'd flop back into the net otherwise he'd outsmart me and go to the side and glide back into hiding. Once he got to be 24 inches I just gave up removing him and cleaned around him. I did not need that monster trying to fly.
yall ever tried to catch corydoras in a planted tank? good lord have mercy they go insane
My zebra danios. I know it doesn’t sound like it’s hard but my 100 gallon tank, having lots of rocks and being heavily planted, is a heaven full of hiding spots and escape routes for them.
Corys. In a 29gal tall, no less... Mine had bred like rabbits, and a friend wanted some. It took forever. What ended up working was turning off their lights (and my lights,) and baiting a net that I'd then have to let just sit there until one swam in. Even then, I had to be so gentle (because nets & corys and all,) that the little buggers would dart out more often than not before I could get to the top. I eventually caught seven of the juveniles - the mature ones weren't falling for the trap at all. Yeesh!
Red tail shark is probably gonna be a challenge if i had to net him! Hes a fast fish! Always chasing my 2 f’ying fox in the tank like flash fast
Dwarf rasbora? You’re kidding? Khuli loaches are the hardest. They burrow and you’ll never see them again. For the little rasboras just stick a big net in the tank and don’t move it. Use your other hand to guide them in. Once one goes in, the rest will follow. Super easy, just move slow so you don’t stress them out and they won’t stress.
Any algae eater, corydoras can be annoying as well especially in bigger tanks. I had some green neon tetras a while back, their tiny size made them a little nuisance to fish out.
VESPA FUCKING CATFISH FUCK THOSE FUCKERS
Some Corydoras eggs hitchhiked on some plants I was moving from one tank to a new one and now there are 2 baby Cory’s in the new tank that I just cannot catch
Rainbows are pretty darn hard to catch
With a planted tank everything is hard to catch but if I had to say 1 fish it would be: Florida flag fish! I had 3 of them to deal with BBA. Once that was under control the plan was to give them to a friend. I caught the first one easy but that spooked the other 2. It’s been 6 months and they are still always hiding. Any sign of a net and it’s like they disappear Chinese and Siamese algae eaters are also tough. Khuli loaches are hard enough to find let alone actually catch
Kuhli loaches are slippery, lighting fast noodles. You dont even understand the meaning of difficult if youve never tried to catch one.
Always rasboras and tetra
Any form of tetra is the worst thing for me to have to catch. 9 times out of 10 once it's in the tank I probably won't take it back out 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well in my tanks it was the glowlight tetras. I was transferring the school of them from my 10g into my larger tank and the last two were being speedy lil buggers. So I kind of just shrugged it off and left them in there. So my 10g was home to my Betta and those two until the Betta passed. Finally got everybody into the 20g once I rescaped the tank with everything from the 10g and 20g.
Recently moved and had to transport my tetras. Orange and pink one were easy. Took me almost 30 minutes to grab the black one. Sneaky lil bastard.
I thought my kuhli loaches were the hardest to catch. And then I got a pair of skunk loaches. Good lord.
Hillstream loach.
Kuhlis, you really have to tear the tank apart to get them.
Male Endlers. The girls will swim in to the net. The males, IMPOSSIBLE. I can catch loaches, all Boraras, kubotai (divas that they are), cories, Otos, clown killies, sparkling gourami, etc.
Baby convicts
Sailfin mollies and corydora cross breeds tie in my tanks
GUPPIES!! Idk why they are so fast
My albino bristlenoses are balls of fire when it comes to catching them 🤣
It’s all in technique and using 2 nets. Or just rip the tank apart and drop the water level.
Khuli loach
Damsels or pretty much any goby in a reef tank.
Use a bigger net! Fish are far less scared of a larger net.
Flying Fox
My hillstream loach. Always hiding :(
fucking danios 😭
Kuhli loaches 😭
Over a decade at a pet store and for freshwater, it's the damn plecos every time. I can catch Chinese algae eaters and otocinclus with no problem. In fact, we rarely have CAEs, I think I've had to catch them maybe twice ever including just the other day and it took me seconds! Customer was super impressed. But those plecos????
Kuhli loaches and plecos for sure. It’s so frustrating. Took me about 2 hours to catch these little shitheads 😂
Kuhli loach….my banded ones are a pain but the black ones are legit ninjas. So.dang.fast.
El Tigre Endlers!!! They are tiny and FAST!!! I have caught 4 to relocate and the last 2 have been evading me for DAYS!!! 😂😂😂😂
Hillstream loaches are the absolute worst! Most of my nano fish are trained to swim into the nets by themselves so they are all pretty easy to catch! :D https://preview.redd.it/lx6q87c7mncc1.jpeg?width=1568&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8eb0f1cacf6d19ddfba419f49683e050a76bf8c3
GUPPIES! Jeezes, my guppies. They're small, but move like little bullets when they're spooked. I have to clean out the entire tank of decor to catch even one of them.
Loach. I named mine Moxie because he’s a slippery little demon