Re: Free: 2 Black Clowns ... if you can catch them.

[SaZaBaZy]

If you can drop the water and have the room you can maby coral them into a larger net, hope that helps.


Cheers Jordan

[SuperT]

catch them when the lights are out.

Terry

[sniggir]

if they are the one I am thinking about they are not saddle back's they are wide banded anenome fish, other whise know as Blue lipped anenome fish they come from australia. and are realy rare. good find for anyone who catches them

[AdamN]

if they are the one I am thinking about they are not saddle back's they are wide banded anenome fish, other whise know as Blue lipped anenome fish they come from australia. and are realy rare. good find for anyone who catches them

They are A.Polymnus, they are not rare, and BA often sells them for $30. If you are thinking this because Pat was selling them as Blue Lipped anemone fish, they were miss ID'd, and in fact are A.Polymus.... but I get why you would have thought that 

[AdamN]

catch them when the lights are out.

Terry

Tried that too, when they were dead asleep and not even moving, one was in the brain, the other in the clam. As soon as I came anywhere near, they scooted into the rocks. I swear .. they sleep with one eye open 

[sniggir]

that is fine I had them Id'ed on Rare clownfish .com so may be I got some different one than you

[sniggir]

either way FREE fish to good catchers!!!!!!!!!!!

[AdamN]

I also had mine ID'd on rareclownfish.com. then I proceed to do the rest of the research myself and concluded that I agreed with rareclownfish.com. If rareclownfish.com told you that yours are in fact Latz, then they probably are.... and if so, you are lucky as they are worth about $300 ea.

but yes, free is always good

[SuperT]

Tried that too, when they were dead asleep and not even moving, one was in the brain, the other in the clam. As soon as I came anywhere near, they scooted into the rocks. I swear .. they sleep with one eye open 

I feel for you.  I had to take a lemon peel out awhile back.  Not an easy chore.

No envy here. 

Terry

[rockgarden]

Free is indeed good and I am interested. After all the other fishermen have tried and failed give me a call, I have a dynamite method :-).

BTW Are they either of these?

Blue-Lip/Wide Band (Amphiprion latezonatus)
http://www.julianrocks.net/fish/littlefish/AmphiprionLatezonatus.htm

and

Saddleback (Amphiprion polymnus)
http://www.orafarm.com/clownfish_species.html

[Severum]

You could always try to catch them with cyanide. I heard that works in some parts... 

[target]

If they aggressive feeders you could try feeding them and siphoning them out with a large enough tube.

[AdamN]

Free is indeed good and I am interested. After all the other fishermen have tried and failed give me a call, I have a dynamite method :-).

BTW Are they either of these?

Blue-Lip/Wide Band (Amphiprion latezonatus)
http://www.julianrocks.net/fish/littlefish/AmphiprionLatezonatus.htm

and

Saddleback (Amphiprion polymnus)
http://www.orafarm.com/clownfish_species.html

Yup, they are Saddleback (Amphiprion polymnus)

[AdamN]

You could always try to catch them with cyanide. I heard that works in some parts... 

lol 

If they aggressive feeders you could try feeding them and siphoning them out with a large enough tube.

they are smart feeders, and very quick feeders, they dart around when catching food, way to fast to even think of doing that.

[joeyt66]

have you tried the pop bottle trap?

[AdamN]

nope, but one of them would not fit through the top of a pop bottle.

[holachicka]

do you have any pics?

[AdamN]

yup, this was a couple months ago, so one noticeably larger now ...

[pete]

did anyone ever catch the fish?

[AdamN]

nope, I have yet to have someone offer me a method other than nets, I guess they just dont get it. These fish cannot be caught by nets, no matter what. They will outsmart you, patience is not the key in this case.

I will be trying the popbottle trap as per someones recommendation though.