The little Christmas Wrasse had been in the quarantine tank for 3 months. Why so long? No he's not sick or anything. The only reason's that I got it online and did not expect it to be so "tiny". At less than 2" I can't put it in my large show tank where it could slip through bulkhead strainers. So I kept quarantining other new fish with it.
Then the last new fish seemed to have ich and I dosed copper. Since I did that the poor little wrasse would not come out from the sand for 5 days. Fearing that he could be dead I dug him out and happy to see it pretty alive. I set up a temp Rubbermaid for it and it's back to normal in 2 days. Now doing very well after 5 days and I don't see any ill effects, thank god!
Lesson learned: no copper for wrasses!
Question: will he be safe to go into a 60 gal. tank with a much larger 4" Wardley's Wrasse?
Then the last new fish seemed to have ich and I dosed copper. Since I did that the poor little wrasse would not come out from the sand for 5 days. Fearing that he could be dead I dug him out and happy to see it pretty alive. I set up a temp Rubbermaid for it and it's back to normal in 2 days. Now doing very well after 5 days and I don't see any ill effects, thank god!
Lesson learned: no copper for wrasses!
Question: will he be safe to go into a 60 gal. tank with a much larger 4" Wardley's Wrasse?