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

[BonesCJ]

I know these guys have a rep for being delicate and tough to keep but while visiting a out of town pet store they had a 2 inch specimen in great health for a measly $40!!! :-D. It was fat and swimming great and had lived in a fish display tank for almost a month, that is with no supply of pods or other live foods. So I went ahead and bought the fish and here is how the story goes

5:30pm Sat -- Purchase Fish at Aquarium Arts

5:45 - 8:30 -- Sit in bag in folks laundry room while the Cats whoop ASU

8:30 -- Realize its time to leave for the 1.5 hour trip home, look in bag, realized fish looks stressed, rip open bag and put in battery powered air pump

8:30-10:00pm -- trip from phx to tucson

10:00 - 10:15 sit bag in tank for temp acclimate

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

10:17 - 12:00 -- sit and watch fish

3:00pm sunday -- run home to check on fish after church to find it happily swimming around the tank picking at bugs and looking happy as can be

and as of today it is still doing well and eating lots of pods and working on getting down the frozen I give it.

 

[ynnhoj86]

we need to see picture otherwise, the story was made up lol =P

 

[BonesCJ]

I took some pics of the wrasse in the bag while teimp acclimating but the batteries died after that. I will get some pics after I get new batteries

 

[BonesCJ]

and trust me, my wife will vouch for this, she heard the "Oh CRAP" as fishy went down the hole.

 

[thepircs]

I have to tell you how happy you made me...my husband was upset when I kerplunked our purple tang! :rollface:
How did you get it out of the garbage disposal? Congrats on the great fish :beer:...Aquarium Arts is on the nw side right?
carol

 

[BonesCJ]

luckily it was a grinder disposal not one of the ones with blades so I just shoved my hand down in there(not the first time) and scooped him up, yeah AA is on Baseline near Alma School