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cmcimino
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I agree! I also have a linespot flasher in the acclimation box. Excited to have him out and about.
I know, right? He was atypical for sure...
I bought the rhomboid, flame, and a lineatus all as females. The rhomboid and lineatus both turned male before they hit the display. They would squabble and chase each other quite a bit, and then one day the lineatus was gone... and the rhomboid was the king fish. He would flash all day and chase the flame, and any other fish he felt offended by lol
I also have a few leopards and a yellow Halichoeres. I sold the rhomboid so that I could try another lineatus...since that was the one I’d really wanted. And a pintail. They are both in QT at the moment ;) Maybe someday I’ll try another rhomboid and maybe get one less ornery lol
Here was my first lineatus and my crysus as a cute little juvi. He’s the new boss now and is considerably larger lol
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Hunter will like this.
saltyhog
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I know, right? He was atypical for sure...
I bought the rhomboid, flame, and a lineatus all as females. The rhomboid and lineatus both turned male before they hit the display. They would squabble and chase each other quite a bit, and then one day the lineatus was gone... and the rhomboid was the king fish. He would flash all day and chase the flame, and any other fish he felt offended by lol
I also have a few leopards and a yellow Halichoeres. I sold the rhomboid so that I could try another lineatus...since that was the one I’d really wanted. And a pintail. They are both in QT at the moment ;) Maybe someday I’ll try another rhomboid and maybe get one less ornery lol
Individual variation can make you scratch your head sometimes. The only Rhomboid I've had was afraid of his own shadow and was even bossed around by my flasher wrasses. I now have a 4.5" laboutei, a 3+" flame and a bunch of other wrasse and the king of the tank is the newest wrasse, an Exquisite that's barely 2". SMH. My tang may be in trouble when he grows up. LOL
Do you have any pictures of your laboutei? I had a BEAUTIFUL one...several tanks ago...that I picked up mislabeled as a 6-line wrasse, for like $40 I think? When I shared him on another forum, I was told all kinds of horror stories about how awful and mean he will be... but mine was a model citizen. I lost him during my QT “learning curve”, to a velvet outbreak. I’ll have to see if I can dig up a picture.
Edit: well, not any good pictures that do him justice... but you get the idea lol
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I know, right? He was atypical for sure...
I bought the rhomboid, flame, and a lineatus all as females. The rhomboid and lineatus both turned male before they hit the display. They would squabble and chase each other quite a bit, and then one day the lineatus was gone... and the rhomboid was the king fish. He would flash all day and chase the flame, and any other fish he felt offended by lol
I also have a few leopards and a yellow Halichoeres. I sold the rhomboid so that I could try another lineatus...since that was the one I’d really wanted. And a pintail. They are both in QT at the moment ;) Maybe someday I’ll try another rhomboid and maybe get one less ornery lol
Wow! My rhomboid is a pushover and hardly ever flashes [emoji22]
saltyhog
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Do you have any pictures of your laboutei? I had a BEAUTIFUL one...several tanks ago...that I picked up mislabeled as a 6-line wrasse, for like $40 I think? When I shared him on another forum, I was told all kinds of horror stories about how awful and mean he will be... but mine was a model citizen. I lost him during my QT “learning curve”, to a velvet outbreak. I’ll have to see if I can dig up a picture.
Edit: well, not any good pictures that do him justice... but you get the idea lol
This was 2 years ago. He is much larger now. Need to take some new pictures of him but he's hard to photograph.
So quick question...I’ve had a moyer’s leopard just emerge from the longest sand burrow stint I’ve ever witnessed. He was buried for 7 weeks [emoji15]
He looks ok weight-wise so he might have been grazing during the night, not positive, but both of his eyes are cloudy. I’m pretty sure it’s not flukes because he was treated before and doesn’t have any other symptoms, and also skeptical about infection since it’s both eyes. Has anyone here ever have a sand-burrower come up from an extended burrow with cloudy eyes? Before this the longest I’d had a wrasse burrow was 1-2 weeks.
Otherwise he seems perfectly normal, and very hungry...
He looks ok weight-wise so he might have been grazing during the night, not positive, but both of his eyes are cloudy. I’m pretty sure it’s not flukes because he was treated before and doesn’t have any other symptoms, and also skeptical about infection since it’s both eyes. Has anyone here ever have a sand-burrower come up from an extended burrow with cloudy eyes? Before this the longest I’d had a wrasse burrow was 1-2 weeks.
Otherwise he seems perfectly normal, and very hungry...
Love my six line, put em in a few days ago and its finally comfortable in the tank. Cool fish to watch. Since putting him in my psuedo is a lot more comfortable swimming out in the open. They man the middle of the tank and live rock, my clowns like the back and tlmy cardinal just floats freely everywhere. Love the combo of fish, perfect for my bio32
Prazi. If his eyes are still cloudy tomorrow I might try that, but since NONE of my other fish have symptoms, and he isn’t yawning or scratching or twitching, I feel like it is unlikely.
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