Amazingly tough for a delicate fish -- Red tailed tamarin wrasse

Well I figure its time for an update, we finished setting up a 220 gallon system over the weekend and transitioned everyone over to it, including i'm happy to say our little red tailed tamarin. However she is no longer so little and is approaching 3 inches. She made the transition with flying colors and was out and hunting within hours. I will get an updated photo when I can but her colors are becoming really striking. The tail is still really bright red and the black is really black not just dark grey. Here is a shot of her new home.

Oh and for size comparison the lightfixture on the tank is a 4 foot unit. Its there untill I get my retro's for the canopy.

Full tank shot with flash on
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Full tank without flash
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I have many wrasses and when I show my tank to others, its the tamarins that always get all the comments. I have thousands of dollars tied up in fairies and all the visitors love the 40 dollar ones. I confess though, I'm a bit partial to my tamarins also.

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I like hearing success stories. I"ve had a yellow tail for 2 mos. now and it's just now starting to eat some frozen food. (been surviving on pods I suppose).

BonesCJ, let's some pix.

Bradleyj, is the trick getting them to eat prepared foods?
 
Re: Amazingly tough for a delicate fish -- Red tailed tamarin wrasse

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13908196#post13908196 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BonesCJ ...
10:15 -- cut open 1/4 hole in corner of bag to let some water out
10:15.30 -- fish slip out of hole!
10:15.45 -- fish go down garbage disposal
10:16 -- madly stick hand down garbage disposal in search of fish
10:16.15 -- snag fish
10:16.30 -- throw fish in tank...
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Miracle here is the fact that you were able to retrive a small slender slippery fish alive from inside garbage disposal...my hand can't fit on mine LOL. Good luck with the little one!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14533168#post14533168 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WLachnit
I like hearing success stories. I"ve had a yellow tail for 2 mos. now and it's just now starting to eat some frozen food. (been surviving on pods I suppose).

BonesCJ, let's some pix.

Bradleyj, is the trick getting them to eat prepared foods?
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Yes, Once they start eating prepared foods they are very hardy IMO. I think mine learned from watching the other fish eat.
 
I just bought a yellow tail and a red tail this weekend. I'm worried because I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. Is this typical behavior? They were added on Saturday, and were eating at the store and picking off my rocks at home. I thought they seemed very healthy and hardy.
Has anyone experience this "hiding" sort of behavior? I'm worried about them. I honestly didn't realize they were a "difficult" fish to keep.
 
pretty incredible. i once had a south american puffer get sucked into a tube as i was doing a DC. he went through the tube and thankfully the water was coming out faster than the drain could manage, so he went int oa little 'pool!' i put him back in the tank without him puffing...phew!!
 
Well time for another update on the life and adventures of our red tailed tamarin. Our 220 sprang a leak apx 3 weeks ago and I had to move all the fish, rock and corals into 3 - 45 gallon rubbermaid tubs, the fish went in one with about 20-30 lbs of rock. I fed sparingly to keep water quality good and there were not alot of pods for her to eat but our Red tail made it through just fine! I put a small container of sand in for her to sleep in and she made it like the trooper she has proven herself to be. And she keeps getting bigger!
 
i have had a yellow tailed tamarin for about two years. she lived with a ungulated trigger for over a year until the trigger started to act like ungulated trigger (a real sob!!)luckily i saw the trigger grab her by the tail and shove her into the sand. the trigger wouldn't let go and she turned and staterd to peck it in the face,i intervened and added her to my mixed reef where she has live happily there after. she even eats flake!!!
 
I dropped a trigger into the disposal once and freaked....the trigger was in full spike and was about 4" at the time and then with spikes out the top and bottom....I got it out, but it took a while. A 2" wrasse though would be hard to find in there I bet! Great story to share.
 
Bones, I've always wondered what you guys with the foam wall backgrounds do about algea during the cycle. Do you just let it go or blow it off?

The first clown I ever bought ended up in the toilet. I was dumping some of the water out of the bag and the clown went with it. He survived the FW dip and I had him until a power outage wiped out almost my whole tank
 
Normally I just pull it or scrub it off, once the cycle is done and the coraline starts it stays under wraps, having a big clean up crew helps as well.

Well here are some tank photos that show our tamarin (kinda blurry) as well as the tank now that its cycling again

Shots down the length of the tank (7 ft long)
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