Just be aware the 6 line is a notorious bully. It’s often sold as a docile fish but it absolutely is not.I am thinking of keeping just one six-line wrasse.... after the fallow period.
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Just be aware the 6 line is a notorious bully. It’s often sold as a docile fish but it absolutely is not.I am thinking of keeping just one six-line wrasse.... after the fallow period.
My sixline is absolutely docile - a 100% pushover. Like a zero on the ****** scale...Just be aware the 6 line is a notorious bully. It’s often sold as a docile fish but it absolutely is not.
Good to know it’s something that may crop in the future...So was mine. For a long time until it wasn’t. I think it’s more common to have negative experiences with them.
I would lower your salt.. you want to be in a perfect world around 1.04 to 1.06 so get your tank full and bring the salt to 1.04 this way when you loose water to evaporation your lessening the gallon ratio to your salt quantity . Which will raise your levels.I added a blue tuxedo urchin to eat the algae. Within 18 hours, my clownfish pair is dead (only fish in the tank). They have been in the tank for close to 2 months.
When I added the urchin, my fish started to freak out and tried burying themselves in the sand. I found one of my clownfish dead in the overflow, and the other one dead wedged headfirst in a hole in my rocks.
A week after I lost the clowns, I added a scooter dragonet. He was picking at my sand and rocks. I added a bottle of reef nutrition trigger pods after adding the fish to re-seed my pod population. The initial seeding was about two months back, and I feed live phyto every day.
Anyway, the dragonet is dead within 48 hours. I could not spot any signs of disease on the fish.
Notes:
- I stupidly added some water from the first store into my tank while acclimating the urchin.
- My SPS is all doing good and showing decent growth.
- No sign that the fish was eaten by anything in the tank.
- Other tank inhabitants - 4 * Trochus snails, 1 * Blue tuxedo urchin, any hitchhiker from 20lbs gulf live rock.
- I did not quarantine any of the fish.
- Salinity - 1.026
- Alk - 8.7
- Ammonia - 0
- Nitrite - 0
- Nitrate ~ 0
- Phosphate - 0.012
- Tank age - 2 months
- Size - 25 gallon
I appreciate all the help I can get. Should I go fallow for 45 days?
The dragonet. It died with its mouth open.
I added a blue tuxedo urchin to eat the algae. Within 18 hours, my clownfish pair is dead (only fish in the tank). They have been in the tank for close to 2 months.
When I added the urchin, my fish started to freak out and tried burying themselves in the sand. I found one of my clownfish dead in the overflow, and the other one dead wedged headfirst in a hole in my rocks.
A week after I lost the clowns, I added a scooter dragonet. He was picking at my sand and rocks. I added a bottle of reef nutrition trigger pods after adding the fish to re-seed my pod population. The initial seeding was about two months back, and I feed live phyto every day.
Anyway, the dragonet is dead within 48 hours. I could not spot any signs of disease on the fish.
Notes:
- I stupidly added some water from the first store into my tank while acclimating the urchin.
- My SPS is all doing good and showing decent growth.
- No sign that the fish was eaten by anything in the tank.
- Other tank inhabitants - 4 * Trochus snails, 1 * Blue tuxedo urchin, any hitchhiker from 20lbs gulf live rock.
- I did not quarantine any of the fish.
- Salinity - 1.026
- Alk - 8.7
- Ammonia - 0
- Nitrite - 0
- Nitrate ~ 0
- Phosphate - 0.012
- Tank age - 2 months
- Size - 25 gallon
I appreciate all the help I can get. Should I go fallow for 45 days?
The dragonet. It died with its mouth open.
I wonder if the adding of the urchin was just a "red herring". I've rarely had fish die from shock/stress if they weren't compromised in some other fashion. For example, I was photographing an African angelfish while it was in quarantine and it literally keeled over and died from the stress of the flash...but it turns out it had internal nematodes that caused it to be "shocky".I added a blue tuxedo urchin to eat the algae. Within 18 hours, my clownfish pair is dead (only fish in the tank). They have been in the tank for close to 2 months.
When I added the urchin, my fish started to freak out and tried burying themselves in the sand. I found one of my clownfish dead in the overflow, and the other one dead wedged headfirst in a hole in my rocks.
A week after I lost the clowns, I added a scooter dragonet. He was picking at my sand and rocks. I added a bottle of reef nutrition trigger pods after adding the fish to re-seed my pod population. The initial seeding was about two months back, and I feed live phyto every day.
Anyway, the dragonet is dead within 48 hours. I could not spot any signs of disease on the fish.
Notes:
- I stupidly added some water from the first store into my tank while acclimating the urchin.
- My SPS is all doing good and showing decent growth.
- No sign that the fish was eaten by anything in the tank.
- Other tank inhabitants - 4 * Trochus snails, 1 * Blue tuxedo urchin, any hitchhiker from 20lbs gulf live rock.
- I did not quarantine any of the fish.
- Salinity - 1.026
- Alk - 8.7
- Ammonia - 0
- Nitrite - 0
- Nitrate ~ 0
- Phosphate - 0.012
- Tank age - 2 months
- Size - 25 gallon
I appreciate all the help I can get. Should I go fallow for 45 days?
The dragonet. It died with its mouth open.
That fish looks emaciated and in poor conditions as well. Look into the salinity issue I just posted about, that could be the culprit here. If not, they you might want to look for a new dealer, as both the goby and the dragonet look very thin and shouldn't have died within 48 hours like that from any disease they didn't come in with.Signs of the disease are more apparent this time. Is this ich or velvet? Death was within 48 hours of adding to the tank.
I plan on getting a Petco 10g tank and quarantine fish before adding. Lost too many fish the other way.
The clownfish pair was from an LFS. The dragonet and the sharknose goby were from Petco.
They are the only store that carries ORA captive bred fish in the area. Anyway this has really soured my experience with them.I’ve never bought a fish from Petco, but I know a number of members here avoid them like the plague (pardon the pun).
Jay