Coaxing My Bristlenose Out Of Hiding

[Xcric]

i've got this huge fake tree stump decoration that my bristlenose likes to live in

awhile back i moved it out of the tank it was in (a 180 gallon tank at my old house), and put it into my 240 gallon tank (at the new house), when i moved it originally i figured the plec was dead and eaten, because i couldnt' find him in the tank, and he never flopped out of the stump once i took it out of the tank

it took about a half hour to move the fake stump to the new tank (new house 20 minutes away), the entire time it was out of water, the minute i put it into the new tank he comes swimming out like nothing ever happened

right now he's living inside the stump in my 240 gallon tank with an oscar, so i'm a little worried he'll either get eaten, or get eaten and choke the oscar to death

anyway, i want to keep the fake stump in the 240 gallon tank because it'll look better and it won't fit in the 55 gallon tank i have anyway, the trouble is i can't get him out of it, so if anyone has any suggestions on how to coax him out or even just knock him out of it and into the knew tank i'd appreciate it

 

[Smithrc_work]

feed last thing at night - just after lights out... and take a seat....

he'll come out soon enough - then wip the tree out

then catch him at you lesure

 

[andyj]

I had a simialir problem last week when I moved house, my male BN wouldn't come out of his log. Eventually just moved him in the log in a Poly box with water in it.

It wasn't til later on I realised he was actually guarding eggs/fry !!!

Have you got any female BN's in the tank?

Andy

 

[Durbkat]

Can your hand fit into the log? If so why don't you just grab him out of there or you can do what I heard on here you can do is to have a jar alittle bit bigger than he is and put some zuchheni or algae wafers in the jar and do it at night time with tank light off and wait for him to come out and he should smell or see the food and go in the jar then lift the jar out and there you go you got your pleco. But since I don't have bog wood or anything with my pleco I just take a net and chase him towards the front of the tank and stick my hand in the tank and pick him up and put him where I want either it be a bag or container to move him somewhere else.