About 15 years ago, I keep a 420 gal reef, healthy with a lot of coral, reef and clams. The reef was featured here:
In this aquarium, I have, among other fishes, a pair of Sixline Wrasse and a Mandarin Dragonet pair. They were all doing great. The mandarin were spawning regularly.
After been together for about 1.5 years, one day the the Sixline pair attacked the female Mandarin. The whole attack only lasted a few seconds. It was a coordinated attack right in front of my eye. I seen the whole thing. One of the wrasse went for one eye and the other went for the other eye. It was all over in a second or two. The Wrasse never chase or bite the Mandarin before, and after they eyes got pecked out they completely ignored her.
I was lucky enough to be able to trapped them and back to the LFS they went. I contemplated flushed them down the toilet, but decided not to. I euthanized the female Mandarin after a few weeks as she get thinner and thinner, and I decided that the blindness was permanent, with no possibility of recover.
If anyone who seen this right in in front of him, and don't think that these wrasse are the devil reincarnated, then that person is better than I am.
Feature Aquarium: The Aquarium of Minh Nguyen
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In this aquarium, I have, among other fishes, a pair of Sixline Wrasse and a Mandarin Dragonet pair. They were all doing great. The mandarin were spawning regularly.
After been together for about 1.5 years, one day the the Sixline pair attacked the female Mandarin. The whole attack only lasted a few seconds. It was a coordinated attack right in front of my eye. I seen the whole thing. One of the wrasse went for one eye and the other went for the other eye. It was all over in a second or two. The Wrasse never chase or bite the Mandarin before, and after they eyes got pecked out they completely ignored her.
I was lucky enough to be able to trapped them and back to the LFS they went. I contemplated flushed them down the toilet, but decided not to. I euthanized the female Mandarin after a few weeks as she get thinner and thinner, and I decided that the blindness was permanent, with no possibility of recover.
If anyone who seen this right in in front of him, and don't think that these wrasse are the devil reincarnated, then that person is better than I am.