A## hole damsel

Depends on how big it is. If it's still small, this has worked for me...

Take a clean 2-liter soda bottle, and cut the top half off. Invert it into the lower half. Place it into the aquarium. Squirt some food into the aquarium, and get the damsel's attention. When it's interested, squirt some directly into the bottle opening. After a few tries, the damsel should go through the opening to get the food. Then...it can't figure out how to get back out. If it doesn't work the first few times, try leaving it in the tank for a few days so the fish get used to it.

he is good size, i tried the bottle trick and he didn't even seem interested in it at all... all the other fish were all over it but I think he knows I hate him! has anyone had any luck with the surprise light tactic? 

wait for it to come out to feed (having the food in the front of the tank) and if it does go to the same portion of the tank all the time, insert a net behind it... then use another net to corral it into the other...

Those are all good solutions. 
I've used all of those methods with success. I particularly like the lights out method and even added more detail about catching fish to the Reefkeeping tips linked below in my signature line. Check it out.

Here is one more useful fishing trick.
Buy a #22 fish hook and 2 lb test line. Bait with a tiny piece of raw shrimp or earthworm. As other fish take the bait, place them in a bucket of tank water and keep fishing. Good luck.

Aloha,
Mark

Explosives. That'll kill it (;

justchillinuno wrote: Speaking of explosives.. I have water proof M-1000's if needed..... just sayin...

Might have some collateral damage with that one... but if someone were do it im sure we would all love to watch the tank explode.....

One of my fish really got to me one time and if it had continued I had ideas on how to devise a spear gun. 

Bahaha the ways we all come up with to Kill a fish. Sorry for the other post I couldn't help it. Did you get it out yet? I've always found feeding in the corner then sneaking up with a net usually works. Or buy a trap.

xlr8r wrote: Find out where it sleeps at night. Then get up before any light hits the tank. Have net ready and do the surprise light on thing. That's what I did to catch a jerk fish. Maybe I got lucky but it worked for me.

This is what I had to do to get a coral beauty caught that I tried catching for over a month using the bottle method and lights out method. I was finally able to see it in a good place to catch one night and snagged it.