Is anyone familiar with the Red Bandtail Waspfish?

John Stuckey · Apr 27, 2016

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I went out and caught her in the act. As soon as the light hit her she hopped over to the rock, flattened herself against it, and raised her spines.

Lionfish Lair · Apr 27, 2016

Soon to be handout beggars......

Lionfish Lair · Apr 27, 2016

Oh that's so cute!!!!

Lionfish Lair · Apr 27, 2016

I'm going to be hitting y'all up for the use of your pictures on the new site

Yahoo! I struck gold!

Flashy Fins · Apr 27, 2016

michellejy said:
So now that a couple of you have them, is there anything I should know before getting one? Any pros or cons?

The only con so far is that he sits in the same spot without doing anything till meal time, but I kind of expected that. Mine is in a bare-bottom QT with just a few PVC pipes, so he may move a little more in a normal tank setting. His mohawk and the adorable slurping up of mysis (and now spirulina brine shrimp, too; yay!) make him a cool fish, nonetheless. He sees the shrimp "swimming" (a little water sucked in/out of the feeding pipette creates movement), waits for it to come down in front of his face, then sucks it down in a split second. I'm going to see if I can train him to come a short distance to the food soon, because I don't think putting it directly in front of his face will work once he's in a 72g tank with other fish. He recognizes the pipette now and gets excited for meal time; today, he tried to bite at brine shrimp through the plastic, then realized he had to wait for it to come out of tube.

John Stuckey said:
Well, I bought the last one off of Divers Den! I purchased it on Thursday so they shipped Monday and it came Tuesday. She is not as colorful as some of the others but I think her white face is beautiful with the dark stripe coming down over her eye. She is at least 2 inches long with a large head. Reminds me of a little bulldog. I'll try to get a photo soon.

Mine has become less colorful since I posted a photo of him looking super red, because he's trying to blend in with the white PVC tubes in his QT tank. Once he's in my display, I'll see where he likes to hang out and place red coral in that space. I expect that will do a lot to redden him back up and might work for yours, too.

michellejy · Apr 27, 2016

John Stuckey said:
I went out and caught her in the act. As soon as the light hit her she hopped over to the rock, flattened herself against it, and raised her spines.

What a cutie!

michellejy · Apr 28, 2016

Well, my 2nd quarantine is nearly ammonia free, so I am keeping an eye out now.

erk · Apr 28, 2016

I was thinking of getting one of these fish when I saw them on DD. I'll wait until I get my 40B up and running. Then I can take down my grow out tub and make room for a QT.

John Stuckey · Apr 30, 2016

I haven't seen my band tail waspfish eat since she arrived on Monday (5 days). Getting nervous. I thought DiversDen fish came already weaned to frozen. Any ideas?

Lionfish Lair · Apr 30, 2016

No they don't come weaned automatically.

michellejy · Apr 30, 2016

Did the description on the one you bought say it was eating frozen?

rayn · Apr 30, 2016

Get some really small ghost shrimp. Smallest you can find and try them.

rayn · May 2, 2016

One in preview today!

michellejy · May 2, 2016

I didn't see it!

I ended up buying a yasha goby pair that will be here tomorrow. Now that I have it in my head that my next tank will be a predator tank, my little cube was my only option to have a shrimp/goby pair. (I will likely kick myself over this.)

rayn · May 2, 2016

8th fish on the list.

michellejy · May 2, 2016

It's a gorgeous one!

Flashy Fins · May 3, 2016

Mine is excited to eat frozen, but I literally have to put the food in front of his face. I haven't been successful in getting him to move more than a few centimeters to catch a piece, but I'll keep trying.

michellejy · May 3, 2016

Flashy Fins said:
Mine is excited to eat frozen, but I literally have to put the food in front of his face. I haven't been successful in getting him to move more than a few centimeters to catch a piece, but I'll keep trying.

Well, would you move if someone would put the food right in your face? He is getting you trained