Catching tricky Endlers

[Hoobahans]

I assume that theres no good answer here, but I thought I might as well try. I have been trying to get all of my Endlers out of my big tank which is heavily planted and has a lot of driftwood. The ones who I couldnt catch the first time around seem to have figured me out and go under the driftwood and into the plants whenver I come around. Its a 95 gallon tank thats over two feet deep so I cant get them when they hide. I have tried waiting for them to sleep when they usually hang out at the surface, but they figured me out and now sleep at the bottom. I have even tried putting food in a net and letting them swim in, but after only two successes they got the better of me again and wait for the food to sink to the bottom. Any one have a secret that I dont know of? A trap? Anything?

[Aquaseafoam]

Maybe you could leave a couple nets sitting in the tank... they'll either get used to it or you can catch them off guard.
I can't imagine not being able to catch my little buggers- they all swarm to the top whenever I feed them- or walk into the same room to beg for food. They will swim right in, but for my other fish I hold the net above the water when I feed them and try to swoop down and catch them when they eat.
HTH- Good luck!

[the_noobinator]

i had a pearl danio that was a distant relation to the Flash. i spent 20 minutes catching just him when i changed my substrate.

[crazie.eddie]

Net fish from the bottom going up, not from the side. If you try netting a fish from the side, it will swim away when the net is just approaching it. If you net from the bottom going up, you can easily corner a fish as you slowly move the net up.

[Hoobahans]

I think my biggest problem is that these guys have learned all my tricks. It was easy to catch the first 30 or so, which I moved to another tank, but the last 10 are impossible (which is extra bad because two of them happen to be pregnant, think many more babies). They have learned to never venture out into the open so I am stuck. I have even bought another net and try to herd them with one into the other but have seen no success. I think my best course of action is now to hang up my hat and admit defeat.

[gbhil]

Cut the top third off of a clear 2 liter bottle. Call this part 'the funnel'
Invert it (like you were going to use it as a funnel) into the other part of the 2 liter bottle.
Staple the two pieces together, and punch a small hole to tie some fishing line to.
Submerge the bottle, then put some frozen bloodworms inside it.
When it's full of endlers, pull it up using the fishing line.

[bharada]

If the fish trap doesn't work I would suggest getting a couple of pond-sized nets.

When I went about getting the last few guppies out of my 125 I resorted to using a 9" wide and 7" wide net. Bit have 24" handles. Use the smaller net to coax the fish out of their hiding places and into the waiting big net.