Everybody, this is Blue, my Cleaner Wrasse, photo bombing my Betta. Named after the raptor from Jurassic World due to its voracious eating habits. It cleans my fish extremely well, eats frozen foods and eats nori so aggressively that it kicked my former tomini tang off it to eat. It was swimming buddies with my lemonpeel angel, until the angel died of velvet.
I was told at my lfs, and by a couple other people to not expect it to live very long, due to they get most of their sustinence from cleaning fish, and I had at most 5 other fish with it, and apparently they can die pretty easy if perameters are off.
Fast forward two months, Blue is still very much alive and well, survived exploded nitrate levels, a bacteria bloom, an outbreak of Velvet that devastated my tank, and now two weeks into copper treatment, and this thing is trucking along like nothing has changed
Were these people lying to me about the fragility of cleaner wrasses, or did I get lucky and get the Terminator?
I was told at my lfs, and by a couple other people to not expect it to live very long, due to they get most of their sustinence from cleaning fish, and I had at most 5 other fish with it, and apparently they can die pretty easy if perameters are off.
Fast forward two months, Blue is still very much alive and well, survived exploded nitrate levels, a bacteria bloom, an outbreak of Velvet that devastated my tank, and now two weeks into copper treatment, and this thing is trucking along like nothing has changed
Were these people lying to me about the fragility of cleaner wrasses, or did I get lucky and get the Terminator?