The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

jkcoral · Jul 30, 2023

Went down the road to my other LFS. She has been there for 3 weeks. Told them to give me 20% off and a breeder box, and little miss is coming home with me.

Each year I become progressively softer, but I just couldn’t leave her there.

Will post better pictures at home

OrchidMiss · Jul 30, 2023

I need a bigger tank....

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Tcook · Jul 30, 2023

Moved my lobo up top away from the war coral. Choates is wondering what’s going on.

jkcoral · Jul 30, 2023

Just put her in the acclimation box. Fed some mysis just to see if she’d eat and she snagged two or three. She’s little, and super spooked.

It’s kinda funny, even after 20+ years of all of this stuff there’s still that super concerned parent with a newborn feeling every time adding a new fish.

Tcook · Jul 30, 2023

jkcoral said:
Just put her in the acclimation box. Fed some mysis just to see if she’d eat and she snagged two or three. She’s little, and super spooked.

It’s kinda funny, even after 20+ years of all of this stuff there’s still that super concerned parent with a newborn feeling every time adding a new fish.

Perfect tail

AZReef13 · Jul 30, 2023

jkcoral said:
Just put her in the acclimation box. Fed some mysis just to see if she’d eat and she snagged two or three. She’s little, and super spooked.

It’s kinda funny, even after 20+ years of all of this stuff there’s still that super concerned parent with a newborn feeling every time adding a new fish.

I totally agree with you.. Good looking fish

Tcook · Jul 30, 2023

How many of you have kept lysmata cleaner shrimp with halichoeres or leopards? @i cant think how’s that harlequin doing?

Slocke · Jul 30, 2023

Tcook said:
How many of you have kept lysmata cleaner shrimp with halichoeres or leopards? @i cant think how’s that harlequin doing?

Never had a problem. One of my skunks just passed away after about 18 months and replaced it on the weekend. My fire has been with me for about 18 months too.

Tcook · Jul 30, 2023

Slocke said:
Never had a problem. One of my skunks just passed away after about 18 months and replaced it on the weekend. My fire has been with me for about 18 months too.

Did you introduce at night when wrasses were asleep?

Lps_lover12 · Jul 30, 2023

Tcook said:
How many of you have kept lysmata cleaner shrimp with halichoeres or leopards? @i cant think how’s that harlequin doing?

Cant say for leopards but my two halichoeres don’t care about my two cleaners at all

Slocke · Jul 30, 2023

Tcook said:
Did you introduce at night when wrasses were asleep?

Nope I’ve never seen any fish go after my shrimp.
Obviously this is my reef safe tank which has a few medium/large Halichoeres wrasse but that’s the most not reef safe. My other tank would rip them apart.

Lps_lover12 · Jul 30, 2023

Slocke said:
Nope I’ve never seen any fish go after my shrimp.
Obviously this is my reef safe tank which has a few medium/large Halichoeres wrasse but that’s the most not reef safe. My other tank would rip them apart.

Even my flame hawks don’t care about my cleaners, they actually let the cleaners clean them sometimes. I took a risk when I got the two of them and I’m happy I didn’t have to choose one or the other

Crabby48 · Jul 30, 2023

Tcook said:
How many of you have kept lysmata cleaner shrimp with halichoeres or leopards? @i cant think how’s that harlequin doing?

I wouldn’t worry. Try to give them a small hole to hide in. They should be fine

Tcook · Jul 31, 2023

Well you know how we reefers operate. I was concerned about my choates stressing over the moved lobo that I had to get another one:)

JoJosReef · Jul 31, 2023

Tcook said:
Well you know how we reefers operate. I was concerned about my choates stressing over the moved lobo that I had to get another one:)

Good that you did that for the fish.

i cant think · Jul 31, 2023

Tcook said:
How many of you have kept lysmata cleaner shrimp with halichoeres or leopards? @i cant think how’s that harlequin doing?

The Harlequin is doing her job. albeit I’ve not seen her yet this week as I was away until Friday. I know she’s in there as the star population is slowly decreasing.

I have 8 shrimp altogether over both tanks - the nano has 3 and the 4’ has 5 shrimp. The 8 shrimp I have are;
3x Lysmata amboinensis (Skunk Cleaner Shrimp)
1x Stenopus scuttelatus (Golden Dwarf Boxer Shrimp)
1x Hymenocera picta (Harlequin Shrimp)
1x Lysmata debellius (Fire Shrimp)
1x Alpheus randalli (Randall’s Pistol Shrimp)
1x Lysmata wurdemanii (True Peppermint Shrimp)

Not a single one got bothered. The only issue I had was when introducing a Pistol Shrimp to my 4’ tank and I didn’t do it late enough at night so the wrasses (mostly the Iridis) munched it. I plan to try again soon though.