Hi Collin, I am experiencing an almost identical situation. I got a tomini/bristletooth tang about 1-2 weeks ago and my carpenter wrasse has been acting much different than normal. Before he was a top of the tank swimmer and almost always out once the lights came on. Now he hides for 80-90% of the day and rarely comes out unless its feeding time. I also added some rocks to reduce aggression but that hasn't seemed to help. Only other fish are pair of clowns (black oscellaris) and YWG (who is currently MIA). 75 gallon. Did your wrasse ever come back to normal after warming up?Don’t mind the mess I responded too late to the algae. I thought it was diatoms but I guess my tank skipped that and went straight to gha. 80 gallon 48”x24”x16”
Bottom picture is a small stack of extra rock for a place for the carpenter wrasse to chill out in. And she’ll sit there all day now.
So it’s still alive and will swim around when I’m sitting next to the tank, well his half of the tank. My exquisite would use the right side but he passed. The tomini is a very timid fish so I realize whenever someone is near the tank the tomini hides which allows the carpenter to swim a bit. But no definitely not back to normal bc if I sit far away it hides in the extra rocks I placed for him.Hi Collin, I am experiencing an almost identical situation. I got a tomini/bristletooth tang about 1-2 weeks ago and my carpenter wrasse has been acting much different than normal. Before he was a top of the tank swimmer and almost always out once the lights came on. Now he hides for 80-90% of the day and rarely comes out unless its feeding time. I also added some rocks to reduce aggression but that hasn't seemed to help. Only other fish are pair of clowns (black oscellaris) and YWG (who is currently MIA). 75 gallon. Did your wrasse ever come back to normal after warming up?Don’t mind the mess I responded too late to the algae. I thought it was diatoms but I guess my tank skipped that and went straight to gha. 80 gallon 48”x24”x16”
Bottom picture is a small stack of extra rock for a place for the carpenter wrasse to chill out in. And she’ll sit there all day now.
Don’t mind the mess I responded too late to the algae. I thought it was diatoms but I guess my tank skipped that and went straight to gha. 80 gallon 48”x24”x16”
Bottom picture is a small stack of extra rock for a place for the carpenter wrasse to chill out in. And she’ll sit there all day now.
I also do 2, 5 gallon water changes every week instead of 10 gallons biweekly bc all my fish hide except the carpenter. This also gives the wrasse more open space to swim around.
Don’t mind the mess I responded too late to the algae. I thought it was diatoms but I guess my tank skipped that and went straight to gha. 80 gallon 48”x24”x16”
Bottom picture is a small stack of extra rock for a place for the carpenter wrasse to chill out in. And she’ll sit there all day now.
Man, sad day. Flasher wrasse seemed to finally be getting his confidence back and coming out with all fish. Colors were brilliant today. Then I fed the tank.. walked away for 15 minutes and came back to find him on the carpet behind the stand. He jumped through a tiny crack in the back section of my lid :( RIP
Nooo. It always sucks losing a fish. I came home to my 5 year old female clown dead, not sure what happened because it ate all 3 times I fed the tank Tuesday. If I were to guess it was stressed over its territory. My dwarf angel loves swimming thru the caves and the clown would chase it basically around the tank even though the angel would never fight back. Well ig my angel has time to recover there’s some nips out it’s dorsal and tail fin. And now my fingers won’t get bit until I add another clown and my black clown turns femaleDon’t mind the mess I responded too late to the algae. I thought it was diatoms but I guess my tank skipped that and went straight to gha. 80 gallon 48”x24”x16”
Bottom picture is a small stack of extra rock for a place for the carpenter wrasse to chill out in. And she’ll sit there all day now.
Man, sad day. Flasher wrasse seemed to finally be getting his confidence back and coming out with all fish. Colors were brilliant today. Then I fed the tank.. walked away for 15 minutes and came back to find him on the carpet behind the stand. He jumped through a tiny crack in the back section of my lid :( RIP
