The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[LiquidSpace]

Can I join the club? I saw a China about a year and a half ago when I was planning my tank and really liked it. Then I saw @OrionN s pair and had to have one. I was able to pick up a fully quarantined one last week and it just arrived. I also picked up a Kuiter’s but she’s hiding under the sand.

 

[Krad]

Can I join the club? I saw a China about a year and a half ago when I was planning my tank and really liked it. Then I saw @OrionN s pair and had to have one. I was able to pick up a fully quarantined one last week and it just arrived. I also picked up a Kuiter’s but she’s hiding under the sand.

Haha bet we got em from the same place. He’s awesome

 

[rzimm33]

Got a new female Rhomboid Fairy in today. Pretty decent size for what I paid.

Doing the normal new wrasse thing and chilling on the bottom.

Also caught a video of my Eightline flashing a few nights ago. He just recently started to flash after addition of a Blue Flasher

 

[tayyybra_]

hmm..kept the solon in an acclimation box inside the tank for 4 days..after some intitial aggression from the blueline..the blueline ignored it..I let them out and for the last 3 days they have swam together like best friends..then all of ansudden tonight bam..he chasedbthe solon around untilnit jumped into the overflow..?

My yellow coris does this exact same behavior to my other wrasses and I don't know why

 

[KGscv]

im new in this thread. Do you qt your wrasses?

 

[i cant think]

If only my tanks weren’t so full… I have plans for the last couple of wrasses but after those are done, I’ll have to wait a couple years for some of my larger males to unfortunately pass on.
For anyone interested, my plans are;
1. Vivien’s Leopard
2. Another Tamarin of some sort (either Twistii or Neoguinaicus)
3. At least 1 other pencil wrasse (maybe 2)

And obviously I plan to have a Choati growing out in my now frag tank :)

 

[tbrown]

im new in this thread. Do you qt your wrasses?

Some do, some don't. Different wrasses have different QT protocols as well. @i cant think and @Slocke can help (as well as others) if you have specific questions about specific wrasses?

 

[Anna K]

im new in this thread. Do you qt your wrasses?

Some do, some don't. Different wrasses have different QT protocols as well. @i cant think and @Slocke can help (as well as others) if you have specific questions about specific wrasses?

You an also buy QT wrasses from @Dr. Reef if you do not currently have a QT setup :)

 

[Slocke]

So wrasse are incredibly resistant to the skin parasites we most often worry about. Especially those who sleep in the sand. However they struggle with stress. So if you have a wrasse dominant tank QT may not be best. If you do do it they handle some copper way better then others. I believe its chelated copper over ionic but I may have that the wrong way around.

 

[skey44]

Hey all, I have a question on Leopard wrasse in QT. Got a great specimen in the mail but it did not find my Tupperware sand bed and has instead wedged in between a pipe and glass bottom. Should I intervene or just wait it out. It’s been a little over 24 hours since introduction.

This one died from what I believe was shipping stress, Petco fully refunded including cost of shipping. It came in dirty water, likely ammonia poisoning/low O2.

I got a new one from LFS and it’s doing great in my observation tank besides waking up before me and going to sleep before I get home from work lol

 

[jwestwood]

That's a well composed shot! Looks great. Details on camera and setup? I'm married to "mrs. Wrasse"...ok "mrs. I want every wrasse"

Beautiful!!

 

[JoJosReef]

This one died from what I believe was shipping stress, Petco fully refunded including cost of shipping. It came in dirty water, likely ammonia poisoning/low O2.

I got a new one from LFS and it’s doing great in my observation tank besides waking up before me and going to sleep before I get home from work lol

A healthy blue star, once they get into your tank and eating, are incredibly robust wrasses. I really think it's the shipping stress and self induced injury during shipping that kills them.

I don't think I will order any more sand-sleeping fish for shipment unless they are shipped with an inch or two of sand in the bag. Their natural tendency to dive into the sand (that isn't there) is what I'm sure kills them.

 

[Featherweight]

Added this handsome melanarus

 

[tbrown]

Added this handsome melanarus

Not handsome yet! I that's a she still but she's pretty for sure!

 

[litsoh]

Acclimating a Melanurus wrasse fresh from the mail room. Does this look to be a mouth injury? If so, what are the odds he’ll pull through?

 

[KGscv]

Some do, some don't. Different wrasses have different QT protocols as well. @i cant think and @Slocke can help (as well as others) if you have specific questions about specific wrasses?

I was just curious as i would see people say they just got a new wrasse and already in DT. I successfully qt 4 wrasses with the jay qt protocol.

 

[KGscv]

I was just curious as i would see people say they just got a new wrasse and already in DT. I successfully qt 4 wrasses with the jay qt protocol.

Current wrasses in qt

 

[Haider1]

My ornate that I got a week ago emerged from the sand 3 days later just to dive back in yesterday. Is it normal for them to make multiple expeditions into the sand for extended periods?

 

[litsoh]

Acclimating a Melanurus wrasse fresh from the mail room. Does this look to be a mouth injury? If so, what are the odds he’ll pull through?

Here’s a little clearer of an image of its mouth that I was able to get before it buried itself in the sane

 

[LiquidSpace]

Okay, my new China Wrasse is flashing all over the rocks. How concerned do I need to be? Everything in the tank has been quarantined. Fun stuff

It got its pectoral fins chewed up by another wrasse that I relocated. Could this be the reason? That’s where it seems to be targeting in the rocks. I also seem to notice it only when food is in the water?