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Got these two guys today from NY Aquatics. P. attenuatus and C. isoscoles. They were eating within an hour of introduction.
The attenuatus was bought as a subadult. Is it wishful thinking or does it look like it's starting to transition to male?
Just my own 2 cents here, but anytime I find a resource that advocates NO QT causes me to discount the entirety of said resource.I just bought my first Macropharyngodon meleagris. I have left him with the LFS until he is eating well. I have a Halichoeres melanurus,
Halichoeres chrysus, Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura and a Paracheilinus carpenteri. I have read 2 different articles on the acclimation of the leopard wrasse. One says to do everything by the book of QT with a sand bed and the other is pretty much the same except the one I read last night said NOT to QT them. It was more important to purchase a healthy specimen and get them into the DT as soon as possible for the least amount of stress. First I've heard this. Thoughts? Also, do you think he will be ok as last fish in? All of the wrasse I currently have seem to be pretty mellow. The 4" yellow and 3" Mel seem to get aggressive over who gets the most food but that's it as far as aggression goes.
I am not advocating this method I AM using QT but just for the sake of discussion.....this is the article. Scroll down to health paragraph.http://www.tfhmagazine.com/details/articles/leopards-for-the-reef-full-article.htmJust my own 2 cents here, but anytime I find a resource that advocates NO QT causes me to discount the entirety of said resource.
Risking all your livestock for the possibility of "better" success for a new addition makes zero sense to me.
I am not advocating this method I AM using QT but just for the sake of discussion.....this is the article. Scroll down to health paragraph.http://www.tfhmagazine.com/details/articles/leopards-for-the-reef-full-article.htm
Yes, it could be.Would swimming at the water line more often than usual, be a result of being an aggression target? My exquisite, previously bossy to the isoceles, is now pretty much reversed roles with the isoceles and for the last week or so has been predominantly at the top of the tank. Feeding / swimming / "sleeping" all seem completely normal, this is the only aberrant behaviour I've seen out of it in months.
I might add, that new addition might bring with it the magical friend called marine velvet. You don't want this friend showing up to your house, the aftermath isn't pretty.I would strongly disagree with that paragraph. A properly sized and set up QT should be much less stressful to a fish. Which is worse, being thrown in to a community of established competitors as you acclimate to captive life or having your own no competition home to get used to captivity? Then there is the other reason which Hunter voiced above. Makes no sense to threaten your entire tank for the sake of one new addition.
I mean, if Jonestown is your thing...I might add, that new addition might bring with it the magical friend called marine velvet. You don't want this friend showing up to your house, the aftermath isn't pretty.
I mean, if Jonestown is your thing...
Who I am to judge? ;Hilarious