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#1 Betta132

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Posted 20 November 2015 - 10:22 PM

I'd like to catch a bunch of scuds for a new fish tank. Yes, I know they eat plants, but this tank just has duckweed and a couple of java ferns, and I doubt they could survive out in the open for long enough to get at anything. I want to add them for my bushfish to hunt, and also as an extra food source for him while he's still a tiny baby. 

Would some sort of bottle trap shoved in the weeds for awhile and baited with a dead thing work, or would that just get me a bunch of crawdads? I don't mind catching scuds and crawdads, but I don't have much use for crawdads with no scuds. 



#2 Matt DeLaVega

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Posted 21 November 2015 - 06:18 AM

fine mesh dip net. 3/16 will catch all but the smallest. Pull it through vegetation. IME overhanging bankside grasses seem too be best. Not sure that scuds are more abundant there or whether the sturdier grasses don't clutter up the net and separating the scuds out is easier or both.


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#3 loopsnj64

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Posted 21 November 2015 - 07:55 PM

Your best bet is go to catch other things that lurk in thick vegetation (bottom dwelling fish), and with luck a couple scuds will wind up in your net!


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#4 keepnatives

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Posted 21 November 2015 - 09:17 PM

Here in NY state I find them extremely abundant in creeks with large, thick patches of elodea. A swipe or 2 with a dip net would gather hundreds.  


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#5 FirstChAoS

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Posted 22 November 2015 - 12:12 AM

Set up a Patriot Missile system to intercept them.... wait wrong Scuds.



#6 Matt DeLaVega

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Posted 25 November 2015 - 06:33 AM

Set up a Patriot Missile system to intercept them.... wait wrong Scuds.

Would be overkill, and frowned upon by fish and game. Not to mention the whole lot of the alphabet boys.


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