The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[Tanggy]

new flame wrasse

• Tanggy
• Aug 27, 2018

Sharing with you all my new flame wrasse I got from TSM corals. He's been in the DT for a few days now. Knock on wood: no bullying from others. I've noticed he has an arch shape body. Is that normal? thanks...

 

[saltyhog]

That looks like a spinal injury to me. Did he run in to the side of the tank when he was introduced? He may not be debilitated by it but I don't know that will improve.

 

[Tanggy]

That looks like a spinal injury to me. Did he run in to the side of the tank when he was introduced? He may not be debilitated by it but I don't know that will improve.

He's been like that since I released him into the tank.

 

[YellowFinsReef]

Tried this fish 4x and I never got em to live past a week.

 

[YellowFinsReef]

At first I was a bit worrisome about adding a tiny pair (1-1.5") of wrasses into my tank, but after seeing the female chow down on a black worm and the male downing a mysis (both eating pellets), I am growing to love them. Picture of the male in its grow out tank.

 

[JakeK]

If you don't mind me asking, where'd you pick this guy up from? Looks like my old exquisite who passed away from old age. Never have been able to find another pacific type since.

 

[ascheff]

5ish years.

I have a follow-on question on the behavioral changes in an aging wrasse, which I've actually been meaning to ask for a while. Until last night I had a big boy P. mccoskeri, another genus I have read on here that has a relatively short lifespan. I got him in March 2016 as a young terminal (?) male. Given the rate at which my P. piscilineatus has grown since I got him at a much smaller and undeveloped size, I would guess the McCosker's was probably already 12 to 18 months old at the time.

In the past 6 months he has stopped flashing other fishes, something that he would incessantly do to anything that swam, only a year ago. While he still had a nice dark red/orange body, his lines and markings have faded quite a bit. For the past 3 months I would often find him "resting" on the substrate. He was still eating, but in the past month or so I would often had to show him I there with the food, which would prompt him to get up to eat. Yesterday morning I found him sleeping (still breathing) in his day rest spot, not tucked away in rock where he always slept at night. He also didn't seem to have his mucus cocoon. Sadly when I returned from work yesterday, I found him dead in the same area.

Does this sound like a wrasse dying of old age? Or was something else amiss?

 

[Lninwa]

I have a question for you wrasse lovers. Is it common for Halichoris to eat my cuc? I have 1 hermit and 1 snail left

 

[eatbreakfast]

I have a follow-on question on the behavioral changes in an aging wrasse, which I've actually been meaning to ask for a while. Until last night I had a big boy P. mccoskeri, another genus I have read on here that has a relatively short lifespan. I got him in March 2016 as a young terminal (?) male. Given the rate at which my P. piscilineatus has grown since I got him at a much smaller and undeveloped size, I would guess the McCosker's was probably already 12 to 18 months old at the time.

In the past 6 months he has stopped flashing other fishes, something that he would incessantly do to anything that swam, only a year ago. While he still had a nice dark red/orange body, his lines and markings have faded quite a bit. For the past 3 months I would often find him "resting" on the substrate. He was still eating, but in the past month or so I would often had to show him I there with the food, which would prompt him to get up to eat. Yesterday morning I found him sleeping (still breathing) in his day rest spot, not tucked away in rock where he always slept at night. He also didn't seem to have his mucus cocoon. Sadly when I returned from work yesterday, I found him dead in the same area.

Does this sound like a wrasse dying of old age? Or was something else amiss?

That sounds like old age. If you've ever had a dog that got old, really any animal for that matter, you see a lack of energy and vibrancy.

I have a question for you wrasse lovers. Is it common for Halichoris to eat my cuc? I have 1 hermit and 1 snail left

Pretty normal. Some species in the genus are better than others.

 

[OrionN]

If you don't mind me asking, where'd you pick this guy up from? Looks like my old exquisite who passed away from old age. Never have been able to find another pacific type since.

I got him from Petco. In searching where he is from, JT told me that his color pattern is from Indonesia.

 

[alton]

OrionN got me into trying wrasses, here is my Flame.

 

[OrionN]

Nice. I see that you got my Wrasse fever.

 

[ascheff]

That sounds like old age. If you've ever had a dog that got old, really any animal for that matter, you see a lack of energy and vibrancy.

Thanks for the confirmation. It is reassuring to know that he reached the end of his expected lifespan naturally. (Well, except for the whole glass box on the other side of the world thing)

That is definitely my goal with every animal I keep.

 

[HairyGary]

OrionN got me into trying wrasses, here is my Flame.

Nice young male

 

[HairyGary]

You could easily break your check card on today DD. Oof.

 

[offtropic]

You could easily break your check card on today DD. Oof.

LOL yeah I saw that - johnsoni, attenuatus, nahackyi, lineatus, octotaenia, rhomboidalis (sp?) and maybe one other.

 

[OrionN]

How about this quartet? I love them.

 

[Wrangy]

How about this quartet? I love them.

Soooo pretty :D

 

[YellowFinsReef]

How about this quartet? I love them.

What camera did you used?

 

[OrionN]

I use an Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II with an Olympus Zuiko 60mm Macro lens. It is a reasonable camera. Much more of a camera than I can use. I need to learn how to use it better.