Wrasse Resort

[Hemmbone20]

Question about your cirolanid isopods.. I’m dealing with those now..
do they eventually all die out? I’ve probably removed 15 or so from my tank over the last few weeks. I know there’s a couple more.. my main worry is if they reproduce. In your experience, do they multiply in the tank? Or just cause a temporary nuisance to fish while they slowly get picked off or removed?

 

[Wrassefan78]

Have any of you ever kept a Beaus Fairy wrasse? If so what’ is its temperament like? Do the colors wash out over time?

Best,

Anthony

 

[JoJosReef]

Been a while. The 75 is still going strong, no updates, still zero filtration other than water changes. The 3 wrasses ( black leopard, china, and brunneus), fox face, and angel that made it through the tank failure are still thriving. I’ll dust off the camera and get some updated pics posted soon.

Glad you're making a comeback!

 

[JoJosReef]

Question about your cirolanid isopods.. I’m dealing with those now..
do they eventually all die out? I’ve probably removed 15 or so from my tank over the last few weeks. I know there’s a couple more.. my main worry is if they reproduce. In your experience, do they multiply in the tank? Or just cause a temporary nuisance to fish while they slowly get picked off or removed?

My understanding is that they can survive and reproduce with and without fish in the tank, and best remedy is thinning out their population by consistently catching and removing them.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

My understanding is that they can survive and reproduce with and without fish in the tank, and best remedy is thinning out their population by consistently catching and removing them.

Jezus how big are these things!

 

[Slocke]

@SaltyT you should start a big wrasse tank like me and call it “Wrasse Resort to violence” ?

 

[Hemmbone20]

Jezus how big are these things!

Mine are all small. About the size of a grain of rice. I caught 4/5 of them in a little glass flatworm catcher I got on Amazon, the rest I’ve either netted or plucked off my fish with tweezers.

First night I went “hunting” there were easily 10 swimming around… not fun.
I feel bad for my clowns, they seem to attract the most.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

@SaltyT you should start a big wrasse tank like me and call it “Wrasse Resort to violence” ?

Corals Resort to violence

 

[SaltyT]

Didn’t intend on being gone for so long after my last post.

Tank update - 75g still going! But I lost my black leopard wrasse two weeks ago. Had him over 6 years so my tank isn’t the same without him. It’s not all bad news though, I added a splendid pencil wrasse and a juvi radiant wrasse since my last post. I also still have my brunneus fairy and black-backed tamarin wrasses, one spot foxface and the cranky angel.

 

[Slocke]

Didn’t intend on being gone for so long after my last post.

Tank update - 75g still going! But I lost my black leopard wrasse two weeks ago. Had him over 6 years so my tank isn’t the same without him. It’s not all bad news though, I added a splendid pencil wrasse and a juvi radiant wrasse since my last post. I also still have my brunneus fairy and black-backed tamarin wrasses, one spot foxface and the cranky angel.

Sorry about the leopard but 6 years is a long life for a leopard. You kept him well.

Also what is this usage of a weird common name for the tamarin?? I had to google that :face-with-tears-of-joy:

 

[SaltyT]

Sorry about the leopard but 6 years is a long life for a leopard. You kept him well.

Also what is this usage of a weird common name for the tamarin?? I had to google that :face-with-tears-of-joy:

My brain couldn’t spell ‘neoguinaicus’ when I posted it lol

 

[Slocke]

I would have accepted newguineawhateverus

 

[SaltyT]

I would have accepted newguineawhateverus

That’s pretty much what I typed before I changed it lol

 

[JoJosReef]

Deciding on my next wrasse for the new 83 48"x20"x20"). Currently:
M. bipartitis
C. exquisitus
P. ataenia x 2
Pseudojuloides splendens
One spot foxface
Cooperband butterfly

Lost H. chrysus (jump through unclosed feeding hole), C. brunneus (jumped through small gap in old lid) and P. carpenteri (died during transfer from QT to DT).

Have a Paracheilinus lineopuntatus coming from Dr. Reef soonish.

Thinking of looking for a juvi radiant. Not sure if a small M. negrosensis will work with the still-female bipartitis or not. After that, I don't know. A second fairy? A second flasher? Something else?

Glad to have you back!

 

[SaltyT]

Deciding on my next wrasse for the new 83 48"x20"x20"). Currently:
M. bipartitis
C. exquisitus
P. ataenia x 2
Pseudojuloides splendens
One spot foxface
Cooperband butterfly

Lost H. chrysus (jump through unclosed feeding hole), C. brunneus (jumped through small gap in old lid) and P. carpenteri (died during transfer from QT to DT).

Have a Paracheilinus lineopuntatus coming from Dr. Reef soonish.

Thinking of looking for a juvi radiant. Not sure if a small M. negrosensis will work with the still-female bipartitis or not. After that, I don't know. A second fairy? A second flasher? Something else?

Glad to have you back!

Sorry to hear about the losses

You have a great group of fish. The lineopunctatus will make a nice addition. My suggestion would be add another flasher wrasse so you can see their displays more often.

 

[JoJosReef]

Sorry to hear about the losses

You have a great group of fish. The lineopunctatus will make a nice addition. My suggestion would be add another flasher wrasse so you can see their displays more often.

I was on the hunt for a cyaneus and/or angulatus but both that I ordered never got sent (likely didn't make it through QT).

 

[SaltyT]

I was on the hunt for a cyaneus and/or angulatus but both that I ordered never got sent (likely didn't make it through QT).

Bummer, those two would have looked good together.

 

[i cant think]

Didn’t intend on being gone for so long after my last post.

Tank update - 75g still going! But I lost my black leopard wrasse two weeks ago. Had him over 6 years so my tank isn’t the same without him. It’s not all bad news though, I added a splendid pencil wrasse and a juvi radiant wrasse since my last post. I also still have my brunneus fairy and black-backed tamarin wrasses, one spot foxface and the cranky angel.

You’re back!

Neoguinaicus is one I still want to trial but my last attempt vanished a week or so after entering the tank. Shame to hear about the black leopard, but 6-7 years was a good run for her.

And what’s this thread without another photo of a wrasse? Finally managing to settle Pencils into my 5 footer - this guys been with me since August at least. He has however started to chuck coral that is just slightly glued onto the sand so everything has to be locked down with putty.

 

[Devaji]

Deciding on my next wrasse for the new 83 48"x20"x20"). Currently:
M. bipartitis
C. exquisitus
P. ataenia x 2
Pseudojuloides splendens
One spot foxface
Cooperband butterfly

Lost H. chrysus (jump through unclosed feeding hole), C. brunneus (jumped through small gap in old lid) and P. carpenteri (died during transfer from QT to DT).

Have a Paracheilinus lineopuntatus coming from Dr. Reef soonish.

Thinking of looking for a juvi radiant. Not sure if a small M. negrosensis will work with the still-female bipartitis or not. After that, I don't know. A second fairy? A second flasher? Something else?

Glad to have you back!

hope you have better luck than I finding radient wrasses both of my QT guys have not been about to inport them or really them come in DOA.
I have a space saved fop one in my 3' wrasse take. :)

@SaltyT glad to have you back I do enjoy your posts :)