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She’s asleep. Will snap a pick tomorrow. You had a earmuff and babi together? You know who could never get me that earmuff. Babi is huge now.@Tcook how your viviens? Got any pictures?how big is she?
Here she is a baby! Remember how small?
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Phyco killer flame same pose as Earl gave orchidmiss flame was telling heli to back off when I was teaching Hemi to stand his ground Hemi stayed low and timid and flame let him know who ruled still took two years to chill flame and a long time to teach Hemi to to be bullied it may have been wrong of me but I made Hemi go up in water column stand ground to flame and fight I gave him courage while holding flame back the fights were brutal but the color and show was out of this world I took over a week from work and never left the tank day or night to get them to live together they both were ripped and torn and I wanted to cry but it worked one fish that couldn’t be collected and one that was first ever sold from Madagascar. Wreckless or stupid idk but I believed I could make it work and put the time in flame was pulled many times and put in holding for trying to kill a lot of wrasse but hemi he marked as a issue from the day I added flame to hemi it took 5 minutes adding flame before he started to destroy all wrasse that isn’t normal and why I say charts and that we say will work as a mix fish are fish and anything is possible not only fish I had this with as it’s happened many times flame was young just strayed transition and hemi was big male flame tuirned full male in days once adding to my tank he was added to a 4’ tanks with 20 fish mostly wrasse it was do or die and why he became a killer his past life was female in friends 4’ wrasse tank but they all grew up together we need to watch and learn them wrasse are very emotional and we need to learn the psychology to succeed
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Sorry. If you are owed I will deal with it. I got a couple people to deal with that that they were smart but took kindness for weakness so I’ll be down that way anyway.
Yes I had earmuff and Palidus. It wouldn’t have worked for you. They were big reason my fish were on edge. Earmuff ruled with size but once Palidus got full-size and turned male it turned on earmuff. Earmuffs use size to hold others back. If other grows same size and male then earmuffs give up. Salty and other said the same. We call them ready bears. Fear the bear but yet it’s teddy and wants to be cuddled. They are very close related and I never expected it to work long term. Had to see and learn from it.
Earmuffs are available now. A good friend just picked one up and also I seen them I think quality been getting them and they probably get them from same guy that gets them that owes you.
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I’m owed 2 viviens, male female black leopard, male Bruno still. I did put them on hold but yet I wasn’t getting repayed and bought fish I didn’t want to help him out. What about the magma? Is that on him or you? Mine was in same tank as yours but it did okay and I never ran her in copper. He pushed it on me to unload quick. I think he knew he had a problem after selling yours and knew I qt’ed but I don’t qt that fish but also it never went in my display. Remember he told me he had a Supermale but it was a female lol.
That said his fish were top notch. We’re he gets from is the largest USA import. His fish do not go through that business direct to him. Also his wrasse colors are better than what goes through the largest importer. They sell even to quality. It’s very hard to get fish from him and some of the biggest names in the hobby can’t.
To this day I can’t figure out how our boy was so tight with them. People I know that did 1.5 million a year in fish sales didn’t get the wrasse we did from same guy. Weird.
No. We are square on the earmuff. I just rolled it into another order. I don’t remember the details on the magma. It developed ich soon after receiving it. Went through copper then withered away. He was giving me a deal on a DT. Then it got too hot to ship and I didn’t follow up with him.
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Do i want a specific region for an exquisite wrasse?
Catching up on @i cant thinkLooks like I'll soon be bringing my wrasse total to 11 with these 2 new additions.
OrionN
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I am getting Petco to order a Royal Pencil Wrasse for me. If I can, I will get a male and female pair again like my Splendid Pencil Wrasse
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You got to get a better picture of that Male Black Leopard. They are such beautiful fish. Very nice Royal PencilLooks like I'll soon be bringing my wrasse total to 11 with these 2 new additions.
How does ordering from petco even work?
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Make good with your local Petco manager, talk to them so they get to know you, then ask them to keep an eye out for a specific fish and they'll put it in their order form and call you when it's in. They'll even keep it bagged for you and just float it.
I don't know if any local petcos even carry saltwater. Online, they have some.
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The Corpus Christi Petco is really a nice fish store. They carry a large numbers if freshwater fishes that I never look at, and a relatively large salt water section. The fish are healthy and relative cheap (in comparison to the other two Reef stores in Corpus). They have small selection of inverts also. I bought a lot of my stuff from there. They can order a lot of the things I want. There are a few of things that are off limit due to corporate policy I guess.
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Mine all do except one about an hours drive from my house. The 4 or 5 closest ones do.
I'm probably going to hold off on fish for a bit. The melanurus was doing so well yesterday. And then today, i thought he never came out of the sand. I looked around and he was on his side behind a rock. I don't think hes going to make it.
Temp.77.5
Salinity 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate .08
Alk 8.7
Nitrate 28.9
pH 7.85
I had done a 20% water change yesterday. And she was swimming around checking me out without a care.
Temp.77.5
Salinity 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate .08
Alk 8.7
Nitrate 28.9
pH 7.85
I had done a 20% water change yesterday. And she was swimming around checking me out without a care.
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7 more and we’ll be on the same level
Currently I’m at a total of 19 wrasse, and I’m currently hunting down a couple more female pencils from the Splendens complex to separate aggression between my Kaleidos and Splendens.
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Sorry if this has been covered before. Are a possum wrasse and a pink streaked compatible in a 25 gal lagoon?
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