Help to bring my Beaufortia home:(

[svetlyachok]

Hallo guys,

Many thanks for such a warm welcome on the forum.

I have a VERY stupid problem. At the moment I have one Beaufortia, It comes occasionally in my small Amazonia tank with neons and nannostomuses.

It's a very beautiful tank (despite the fact that's not the suitable place for hillstream loaches). Beaufortia is sitting there in awaiting of my rivertank manifold project start.

The tank has very beautiful thick background

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I don't know how my Beaufortia did it, but it comes OVER the background and sits on the back site. To put the background away from the tank menas to ruin all the design (with rocks, roots and plants). It means to restart this tank over.

Any other ideas how to put this stupid creature back?

Many thanks in advance,
Svetlana.

[Jim Powers]

Does it stay on the back side or move back into the front area of the tank?
If it comes back, I wouldn't worry about it as long as you can catch and move it to the new tank when completed.
If it stays on the back side, you might try shining a very strong light on that back side of the background. That might make the fish finds its way out. I have used that when botias have gotten under an undergravel filter.

[svetlyachok]

Hallo Jim,

Thanks a lot, i think it's good idea to try!

This silly fish makes me crazy, I've lost it for a day or more and thought that it is dead... Couldn't find it though on the bottom. Luckily, it's alive and quite active.

I'll try to make it come back with the light and write here my report.

[svetlyachok]

Well, I had to remove my background completely to catch Beaufortisa... Now it's back, but I had the whole day of unexpectable work...

[Francois van Brederode]

Gotta love your loaches

I once spent a day trying to catch 2 clowns that needed to move to a bigger tank.

Lately I moved my tank.
Try catching horsefaces in a tank full of sand and turbid water....
One scoop of sand true a kitchen sive at a time....
Getting a swoosh of dirty sand in my eyes into te bargain when I found one.

[svetlyachok]

Yep! I used the small soft brush to make it to go to the net...