How much did you spend on your yellow tail tamarin wrasse?

[AydenLincoln]

As the question says. I’m getting one for $90 confirmed eating I pick him up tomorrow so excited!

 

[vetteguy53081]

generally $150-$175 and they often are hard to get adjusted to their new surroundings and eating. Mysis and brine shrimp will be best enticers to eat. They need a 2.5-3" sand bed minimum and are notorious jumpers

 

[AydenLincoln]

generally $150-$175 and they often are hard to get adjusted to their new surroundings and eating. Mysis and brine shrimp will be best enticers to eat. They need a 2.5-3" sand bed minimum and are notorious jumpers

Okay thanks. Live food is an option too. I do have a melanarus wrasse already but I did buy a large acclimation box I’m going to add sand to as well. The fish store has had him eating for a few weeks and healthy.

 

[areefer01]

Okay thanks. Live food is an option too. I do have a melanarus wrasse already but I did buy a large acclimation box I’m going to add sand to as well. The fish store has had him eating for a few weeks and healthy.

So you are going to go through with this?

 

[OrchidMiss]

@Slocke

 

[Slocke]

Mine was $30 but I have a good LFS. $90 is a great price.
I believe we discussed this before but find one that’s eating and give it time to acclimate. Here’s the setup I used for my last sand sleeping wrasse.

 

[AydenLincoln]

Mine was $30 but I have a good LFS. $90 is a great price.
I believe we discussed this before but find one that’s eating and give it time to acclimate. Here’s the setup I used for my last sand sleeping wrasse.

I bought a box and have sand to add! Very similar to this. Thank you!

 

[AydenLincoln]

Well the large acclimation box on Amazon arrived broken and he was very stressed so I had no choice but do put him right in! Say a prayer they don’t kill each other. He was very stressed and he needed to be in the tank and not the teeny tiny specimen box I had. I’m not so worried as much of it being an expert fish I’m more worried to see how they do. The guy is super healthy and active.

 

[AydenLincoln]

I would like to mention he has a guarantee as well! Again he’s super fat and healthy.

 

[Slocke]

They should get along just fine. As said before they are very different wrasse and I have 3 halichoeres in with my yellowtail.

 

[Dolphis]

Got mine for about $90. He was healthy when arrived. Popped him in the display and never showed any stress or anything. Was out in the open right away picking at rocks, as if nothing had happened.
Had a leopard and yellow coris wrasse at the time, didn’t bother anyone nor was he bothered.
Took him a few weeks to get the eating frozen, but there’s a healthy population on the LR that I wasn’t worried if he ever ate frozen.
He’s always out in front, ready to eat something when moving sand,rocks, or corals

 

[Ks4726]

They should get along just fine. As said before they are very different wrasse and I have 3 halichoeres in with my yellowtail.

This is not a dangerous addition. If anyone knew a hundred percent that two fish would get along they’d be the “god” of this hobby.

First of all, I wasn't specifically talking about adding the 2 wrasses together. I was coming from a in-general perspective.

 

[areefer01]

I would like to mention he has a guarantee as well! Again he’s super fat and healthy.

This is the wrong approach to reef keeping. Fish are not a commodity.

This is not a dangerous addition. If anyone knew a hundred percent that two fish would get along they’d be the “god” of this hobby.

I understand you don't agree with their opinion and maybe found it blunt but you missed the reasoning behind their post. The post had nothing to do with dangerous addition but rather the reasoning of their adding it to the display, difficulty of the fish, and a bit of history. There is also a bit of ignoring advise going on behind the scene.

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Bye

 

[Tcook]

Mine was $30 but I have a good LFS. $90 is a great price.
I believe we discussed this before but find one that’s eating and give it time to acclimate. Here’s the setup I used for my last sand sleeping wrasse.

How do you keep water from pouring out of those slits?

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

How do you keep water from pouring out of those slits?

It's an in tank acclamation box

 

[Tcook]

It's an in tank acclamation box

Yes. I’m poking fun @Slocke

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Yes. I’m poking fun @Slocke

I was about to say....lol....im like man i have taken advice from this guy before what was i thinking lol hahaha

 

[Tcook]

I was about to say....lol....im like man i have taken advice from this guy before what was i thinking lol hahaha

Maybe you shouldn’t

 

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