The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[mikellini]

Well, bad news. Two of the three wrasses are sick (the Carpenter's and the Orange-back), and my vendor is going to try and nurse them back to health, but it doesn't look good. I didn't take the H. melanurus today either, as she wanted to keep an eye on him as well (although he looks great). So, yet another question: if the other two don't make it, should I take the melanurus and try and introduce the other two at a later date? Or should I hold off and wait until I can put all three in at once?

 

[eatbreakfast]

Well, bad news. Two of the three wrasses are sick (the Carpenter's and the Orange-back), and my vendor is going to try and nurse them back to health, but it doesn't look good. I didn't take the H. melanurus today either, as she wanted to keep an eye on him as well (although he looks great). So, yet another question: if the other two don't make it, should I take the melanurus and try and introduce the other two at a later date? Or should I hold off and wait until I can put all three in at once?

Sorry to hear about the sick fish.

You can get the melanurus, then get a social acclimation box and use that whenever you add wrasses to the tank.

 

[evolved]

A latter date would be fine for the other two.

 

[mikellini]

Thanks guys. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

 

[mikellini]

Ok I picked up what I think is a C. solorensis to go with my H. melanurus. I say think because it seems to have all the right colours in all the right places, except they are muted and there is a black spot on the tail. Is this a juvenile turning into a male, or possibly a female? I'll try to get a photo

 

[eatbreakfast]

A pic will confirm, but it certainly sounds like a female transitioning to a male. Females and juvies have a black spot on the caudal peduncle(the base of the tail and not the fin rays).

 

[evolved]

The only other possibility in my head is C. exquisitus. These two seem to get confused sometimes.

 

[mikellini]

Don't mind the hair algae haha

 

[eatbreakfast]

That is a male C. solorensis, stl young because it still has the black spot on the caudal peduncle.

 

[evolved]

That is a male C. solorensis, stl young because it still has the black spot on the caudal peduncle.

+1.

 

[mikellini]

Can I expect colours to intensify a bit as it matures?

 

[evolved]

For sure

 

[mikellini]

Thanks again guys! Now just to add the Kole tang and Foxface and I'm done for fish, then on to corals and clams :)

 

[64Ivy]

Sorry if a similar question has already been asked but does anyone have a thought about mixing two species of Cirrhilabrus wrasse (specifically one terminal Male lineatus and a trio of earlei) in a 500g, Acropora dominated reeftank...not for any particular reason other than they're two of my favorites. Btw, I currently have no other wrasse.

 

[evolved]

You'd be completely fine.

 

[Mike&Terry]

Photographically speaking, not a great pic, but love the subject. Happened to capture them together while trying to snag a pic of one of our C. earlei:

 

[evolved]

Yeah, that's pretty much as good as it gets for a 3-in-1! Nice work!

 

[EcoFrags]

Some sweet wrasse there! Awesome pics

 

[64Ivy]

You'd be completely fine.

Thanks.

 

[Rosekeeper]

McCosker's Flasher...Cleaner....Melanurus