This fish wasn't all it was cracked up to be.....it was a let down?

[Royal Gramma Man]

Melanarus Wrasse. Absolutely beautiful but despite being known for friendliness, it put the butt in wrasse when it came to interacting with tankmates

I was censored

 

[Rmorrison23]

I had similar issue with my blonde naso. I tried frozen mysis, brine, baby brine, bloodworms, hikari seaweed extreme, aquaforest pellets, vitalis pellets, seachem marine, green seaweed, purple seaweed, nori, masstick..... Didn't eat for 8 days. Mine started eating after I put in some caulerpa in the tank. Now eats frozen too. Still won't touch pellets/flakes though. At one point I thought that this fish is gonna put me on blood pressure pill

Just an update, my blonde naso is now eating blood worms and bits of nori that fly around the tank when my other fish ravage the clip haha.

 

[Pookymama]

I got a Pixie Hawkfish, he was sooo cute. Just loved him. BUT he turned out to be a total butt and I had to take him back.

 

[Rutrag]

A couple weeks ago I was in an LFS that had a royal pencil wrasse. I observed it eating, and it was gorgeous. Bought it, brought it home, and the learned how difficult the species is. He made it about 4 days, and did eat, but never with much gusto. They are also a burrowing wrasse, and he never did. I don’t know if my sand is too coarse, but my ornate leopard as well as other leopards and Melanarus didn’t seem to have an issue. It’s worth noting the LFS tank was bare bottom, so I’m sure that didn’t help his stress level.

 

[lynka]

I have had a couple. But the Harlequin Shrimp pair I got were so cute, picked up some starfish for them. She killed him. so I got her another male. Killed him too!! and then she disappeared only leaving behind TONS of starfish!! Other than that it was my fire fish and royal gramma. They hid most of the time. Currently a black and white clown, who also killed her partner. Really hate her!

 

[N.Sreefer]

I’m thinking about it. I worry about those dang spikes (both damaging them and damaging myself).

Its hard to describe how to do this over the internet but if you put your on top of the fish's head and move your hand backwards towards the tail you can get the spikes to fold back but hold it firmly it'll struggle and letting go half way through the spikes would be a mistake that wouldn't soon be forgotten. I do it all the time fishing cant say ive never been stabbed though. Brown bullhead catfish being the worst.

 

[Wasabiroot]

Don't make the rookie mistake of assuming reef safe with caution won't mean your tank will be a statistic.

Bought a bicolor blenny.
They're adorable. Come on, how can you not love this guy.

Do not be fooled. Your tank is delicious to this blenny. I don't know what the deal was with my specimen but this guy was insatiable. After consuming all the hair algae in the tank, this guy systematically mowed down a Platygyra, a leptoseris, two expensive favia frags and nipped an acan into submission. In the span of 6 days. I couldn't tell at first why my corals looked receded but I soon realized I had made a huge risk introducing the blenny.

Always do one final check before purchasing livestock in person or online. Ensure you know exactly the full picture of the fish you're getting.

That being said, I believe if you fed heavily, this fish would behave. Unfortunately I was newer and didn't want to deal with the nutritional complexities of heavy in heavy out.

I recommend them though. Just know what you're getting.

INTERESTING SIDENOTE. The blenny completely ignored a harlequin war coral (favites pentagona) that was between two favia frags. No idea why. Perhaps the coral color indicates something to the blenny. Or it simply tasted bad.

 

[Flame2hawk]

I bought a yellow belly hippo tang, I hate it so much!!!!

Why?

 

[elcapitan1993]

Why?

It’s a fish with no boundaries and always smacks into my corals with its tail or is chasing a fish trying to eat,it was a nightmare getting him out

 

[Flame2hawk]

It’s a fish with no boundaries and always smacks into my corals with its tail or is chasing a fish trying to eat,it was a nightmare getting him out

Wow mine has a silly behavior(reminds me of dory) but is a great tank mate and is usually chased by others (Achilles and YT) vs doing the chasing. The emperor and queen angels are the enforcers and everyone else just falls behind them in the pecking order.

 

[DavidinGA]

Pretty much any fish that ended up hiding all the time...