Blue Sided Wrasse Question

[Datone]

What does everyone feed their Blue Sided Wrasse? I have one now and I am having a hard time getting him to eat. Also, do they normally swim like paddling. His pectoral fins are always going, but he seems like he always swims looking up and kind of bent. Both at the LFS swam that way. My dwarf pygmy tang nipped him in the tail a little, but things seem to be better. Is this normal?

 

[billyzbear]

I never heard of blue sided wrasse, do you have a picture? Most fish will eat Hikari mysis. Hikari I think has the best, my anthias wouldn't eat other kind of mysis. My flasher will eat formula one flake food.

 

[Ninong]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6836082#post6836082 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by billyzbear
I never heard of blue sided wrasse, do you have a picture?

The blue sided fairy wrasse is Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura. You can see a picture of it here.

 

[Ninong]

Re: Blue Sided Wrasse Question

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6832323#post6832323 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Datone
What does everyone feed their Blue Sided Wrasse? I have one now and I am having a hard time getting him to eat.

All Cirrhilabrus wrasses are zooplanktivores. I have no experience with C. cyanopleura but my C. lineatus and C. scottorum will eat freeze dried Cyclop-Eeze (frozen would probably be better if you can get it), frozen mysis shrimp, frozen brine shrimp, frozen blood worms, finely minced shrimp or squid, just about any flake food, any of the various frozen foods for carnivores and they nibble on the Seaweed selects that I place on a clip in the tank to feed my Foxface Rabbitfish. Once they start eating, they will eat just about anything.

Also, do they normally swim like paddling. His pectoral fins are always going, but he seems like he always swims looking up and kind of bent. Both at the LFS swam that way.

All wrasses have that characteristic swimming motion. Unless in a particular hurry, their bodies and tails appear to remain quite stiff while their pectoral fins row them along. They use their caudal fins for bursts of speed but for just cruising along, they rely on their pectoral fins.