The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[jabberwock]

My Purple Firefish has not shown itself for a few days. It was an old fish. I have not given up on it yet, BUT...

Is there a small wrasse that would do well in a 25 gallon lagoon with:
Carpenter Wrasse
YWG/Pistol Shrimp
Blue Neon Goby
Yellow Clown Goby

Thanks!

 

[JoJosReef]

My Purple Firefish has not shown itself for a few days. It was an old fish. I have not given up on it yet, BUT...

Is there a small wrasse that would do well in a 25 gallon lagoon with:
Carpenter Wrasse
YWG/Pistol Shrimp
Blue Neon Goby
Yellow Clown Goby

Thanks!

Pink streak wrasse!

 

[i cant think]

Im happy to say… Both Twistiis are thriving! And they hunt as a pair too.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

My exquisite wrasse is looking so much better already!

Here's when I got him, 6 days ago:

And this is him now, less than a week from the purchase date!

(Zoomed in, unedited)

 

[TylerHaworth]

Quite the turnaround, great job!

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Quite the turnaround, great job!

Thanks! I am so happy I was able to save him before he starved to death at the store.

 

[OrchidMiss]

 

[Slocke]

Wow
Greta shot!!

 

[Tcook]

Nice gorg too

 

[OrchidMiss]

Wow
Greta shot!!

Greta will be the name of one of my next chickens.

But thank you!

 

[OrchidMiss]

Nice gorg too

Thank you, it has doubled in size since adding it.

 

[twentyleagues]

Thank you, it has doubled in size since adding it.

Thats what.....nvm:disappointed-face:

Greta will be the name of one of my next chickens.

But thank you!

I am glad someone did something with that it was killing me and I felt it was not my place.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Guess who else is pedantic.

 

[Cael Gallery]

Well i've had an outbreak of uronema, then velvet and now a bacterial infection on my 2 angels all in the space of 2 very stressful weeks.
Losses so far; ( in order)
5" Goniistius vestitus, caught it myself in a rockpool. Uronema
5" Stethojulis balteata, unclear but suspected uronema. Was missing for 3 days, eventually it's dead and badly decomposed corpse floated up from under the sand.
3" fat, conditioned happy Anampses neoguinacus - internal uronema
8-9" frozen-eating A.lennardi - external uronema
3" Chaetodon declivis. fully pellet trained and almost $1500 in australia - velvet
5" Harlequin tusk - copper poisoning
3" Halichoeres richmondi - still alive but barely. Copper poisoning again, may be recovering slightly. Very frayed fins, missing scales on one side of the body, bloated stomach and inability to swim in a straight line or bury itself in sand. Kind of similar symptoms to swim bladder damage.
4" Pomacanthus maculosus and 6" Chaetodontoplus personifer, still alive but battling a very aggressive necrotic bacteria infection.

The copper poisoning was caused by the hanna copper checker i bought being faulty. After the butterfly died from velvet (the personifer almost died from it too but recovered), i dosed coppersafe immediately and went the next day to a store to get a copper checker. The first test i did read 1.19, i added about 100mls more copper and went to retest at which point it broke internally or something and kept giving me an error message which i couldn't fix. the next day i got a new one which first read 2.28 which was perfect but i wanted to get it to 2.50 so i added another 50mls of coppersafe. I testes again 4 times and i got the reading of 3.72 - 3.92 averaging 3.90. I did several more tests and got the same result, so over the course of 2 days i did a 50% WC to get the copper level down to normal. I was only able to do 15% at a time. My Thalassoma, sailfin tang, Quoyi parrot, striped snapper, red coris, pixy wrasse and a couple other fish didn't seem to care but my richmondi and tusk took it really badly. My mimic tang developed a fair bit of lateral line erosion and my 2 angels looked pale and stressed most of the time.

So yeah, been an awful 2 weeks with some losses that really sucked. I'm hopeful the richmondi will pull through, 2 days ago it was just spinning in circles, today it can kind of keep itself level in the water but still has a bulge on the belly.

The plan going forward is to maintain a therapeutic copper level for 30-45 days to clear the DT of velvet and ich. Formalin dosing for uronema (on day 8 now, 20mls daily) and hybrid ttm on all new fish. I guess i've learned my lesson :(

 

[Tcook]

Well i've had an outbreak of uronema, then velvet and now a bacterial infection on my 2 angels all in the space of 2 very stressful weeks.
Losses so far; ( in order)
5" Goniistius vestitus, caught it myself in a rockpool. Uronema
5" Stethojulis balteata, unclear but suspected uronema. Was missing for 3 days, eventually it's dead and badly decomposed corpse floated up from under the sand.
3" fat, conditioned happy Anampses neoguinacus - internal uronema
8-9" frozen-eating A.lennardi - external uronema
3" Chaetodon declivis. fully pellet trained and almost $1500 in australia - velvet
5" Harlequin tusk - copper poisoning
3" Halichoeres richmondi - still alive but barely. Copper poisoning again, may be recovering slightly. Very frayed fins, missing scales on one side of the body, bloated stomach and inability to swim in a straight line or bury itself in sand. Kind of similar symptoms to swim bladder damage.
4" Pomacanthus maculosus and 6" Chaetodontoplus personifer, still alive but battling a very aggressive necrotic bacteria infection.

The copper poisoning was caused by the hanna copper checker i bought being faulty. After the butterfly died from velvet (the personifer almost died from it too but recovered), i dosed coppersafe immediately and went the next day to a store to get a copper checker. The first test i did read 1.19, i added about 100mls more copper and went to retest at which point it broke internally or something and kept giving me an error message which i couldn't fix. the next day i got a new one which first read 2.28 which was perfect but i wanted to get it to 2.50 so i added another 50mls of coppersafe. I testes again 4 times and i got the reading of 3.72 - 3.92 averaging 3.90. I did several more tests and got the same result, so over the course of 2 days i did a 50% WC to get the copper level down to normal. I was only able to do 15% at a time. My Thalassoma, sailfin tang, Quoyi parrot, striped snapper, red coris, pixy wrasse and a couple other fish didn't seem to care but my richmondi and tusk took it really badly. My mimic tang developed a fair bit of lateral line erosion and my 2 angels looked pale and stressed most of the time.

So yeah, been an awful 2 weeks with some losses that really sucked. I'm hopeful the richmondi will pull through, 2 days ago it was just spinning in circles, today it can kind of keep itself level in the water but still has a bulge on the belly.

The plan going forward is to maintain a therapeutic copper level for 30-45 days to clear the DT of velvet and ich. Formalin dosing for uronema (on day 8 now, 20mls daily) and hybrid ttm on all new fish. I guess i've learned my lesson :(

Terrible news. Hope some pull through.

 

[Cael Gallery]

Terrible news. Hope some pull through.

I think the remaining healthy fish should be fine. Most concerned about the 2 angels and the richmondi

 

[TylerHaworth]

Looking at adding a Bell's Flasher to my Fairies (Rhomboid, Pintail) and would love to see some pictures of yours... Who out there has one!?

 

[Tcook]

Looking at adding a Bell's Flasher to my Fairies (Rhomboid, Pintail) and would love to see some pictures of yours... Who out there has one!?

I think either @Crabby48 or @SaltyT had one

 

[PR_nano]

Cirrhilabrus adornatus (Redfin fairy) wrasse has gone rogue. Paracheilinus carpenteri (Carpenter flasher) used to chase but roles change. It is now to the point that the Carpenter can't get out of a rock work. He gets out to grab a bite when I feed, and the Redfin aggressively chase him till he gets in a hole. No fin or wounds but barely let him eat/swim. I may need to remove one of the two.

 

[JoJosReef]

Cirrhilabrus adornatus (Redfin fairy) wrasse has gone rogue. Paracheilinus carpenteri (Carpenter flasher) used to chase but roles change. It is now to the point that the Carpenter can't get out of a rock work. He gets out to grab a bite when I feed, and the Redfin aggressively chase him till he gets in a hole. No fin or wounds but barely let him eat/swim. I may need to remove one of the two.

Poor Carpenter. Looks terrified in that hole. Always the worry with these guys.