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i have open top on my 55 reef with a pair of flames. So far so good. It has only been 1.5 months, but im thinkingof putting eggcrate over it, because i dont want to lose them. But they dont usually go to the top unless feeding. they chill out under a cave and wait for food :)
 
Bronco,
I must say you have some of the nicest fish I have ever seen. I grew up raising killifish, discus, koi and apistogramma's which are in my opinion about as beautiful as they get in the freshwater world. Then I see the stuff you have and my jaw drops. In one of your pictures I thought I noticed a little centropyge multicolor and I was wondering if so how do they get along with your wrasses. I got into saltwater specifically for my love of the potter's angel and have been wanting to get a few fairy/flashers to keep with him and just wasn't sure about it. Another question I have is I have been having a somewhat hard time finding people that also sell the females and when I do they are signifcantly cheaper than the males so does it pay to buy a couple of females or are the males usually happy with just one. I am looking at getting either pyle's, flames or mccosker's (although the only ones I can really seem to find are the flames) and was wondering what kind of a price all these should command. I know I have found the flames for somewhere between $100 and $200 and the McCosker's for around $26 a piece although no option for males or females. And haven't really found the Pyle's. I don't plan on buying anything for about a month or so so I haven't really started calling around yet, but I like what I see from justrarefish so that is probably who I will call first. Thanks for any help.
And too bad it isn't a Bears vs. Broncos game this weekend
 
raddogz I would advise against an open top. I had my solar wrasse for over 6 months and there was just one small area where the eggcrate didn't cover, and finding him on the floor was definitly not a good experience. And during those 6 months he was always calm and never appeared like he was going to jump.
 
I can also say that Brian's fish are packed excellent, come in very calm and eat like crazy within hours after being shipped directly from Hawaii.
 
Yep it WILL eventually happen; may even take a year but they WILL jump. I have had mine bounce off the TOP of my 12" canopy, then ricochet off the side before plopping back into the tank.

If you are thinking of pendants YES you can have your cake and eat it too. I have my Aqua Medic 150 mounted within my hood, and the back is covered with Nylon Needle Point craft mesh. But I only have that one 150 and a pair of 96w PC bulbs over a 58 Oceanic.
You might also want to cover any overflows, as it gets old having to fish, fish out of it on occasion.
 
Ok I found a picture of my wrasse on wetwebmedia -

Here it is (hope they don't mind):

solar3.jpg


Any ideas on an ID?

Thanks.
 
findawg,

Yes, I do have a Multicolor Dwarf Angel in my tank. That was the trade off I had to make with my wife. If I was gonna dedicate myself to just wrasses then I'd at least have to conceed one of her favorite fish...the multicolor. Actually its a very nice fish. She pratically rules the tank. No fairy wrasse messes with her. She only chases the fairy wrasses when they get in her general territory. Never bites. She does have a bit of a disliking towards the mystery wrasse...but never any damage done.
She never ever bites my corals and I attribute this to two things. First I got here extremely young (size of a nickle) and secondly she has always been well fed.

Fairy wrasses: Females are always hard to find because typically the females are always very uninteresting and bland in coloration as opposed to teh male which is always so brightly colored. Since many suppliers and LFS's get left with unsold females, they avoid bringing them in because its lost money most of the time. There are afew exceptions to look at as it relates to specific species.

Flame fairies - look very similar to male and have very bright colors all through life. Not hard to find
Solar fairies - The females are somtimes sold under the name ruby head fairy. They are fairly easy to get because they are pretty
Pyle's- sometimes available because they are a nice shade a pink and they look great up against the yellow male

Other than that, you'd probably have to special order females with other breeds and hope the LFS or supplier want to go through that route.

Pricing - Flames always hover around the $100 range. McCoskers is a wild card. Not always available and many times suppliers call run of the mill Carpenter Flashers McCoskers because they are very similar. Price is hard to say. A true McCosker is not always that easy to find.
Pyle's have been available on occasion to the trade but it's still not as common as say a solar fairy. Pricing varies quite a bit $100 to $200. I got mine from Justrarefish.com aka Marineaquatics.net. You may also want to check with Marinecenter.com or Liveaquaria.com

As for the Bears vs Broncos. I would have loved that. I can't tell you how many times I yelled at the TV every time a blitz was ordered by the Broncos against the Steelers young QB. Everytime they blitz they put their young rookie CB (Foxworth) on an island and he got burned everytime on 3rd down. That's the REAL reason the Broncos lost. Many will blame Plummer. But the real reason we (broncos) lost is because the "D" didn't adjust their gameplan and the offense was left to dig out of a big hole. Oh well....GO SEAHAWKS!
 
Cool -

Thanks Bronco. I got him for $46 mislabeled as a dotted fairy, the Solar fairy is $75.

Yay mislabeled fish :)

Also - How refined are the firy wrasses biological clocks? I have my lighting from 12 noon to midnight while the pet store has the lights from 9:30 am to 7 pm. I could see my wrasse out and about at 5:30 but not at 9.

Could he just be getting used to my tank and lighting?

Thanks,

Jamie
 
Hey Bronco,
Thanks. As far as special ordering stuff goes I am not too concerned about that... just the problem we all have of finding females. I tend not to get my fish from LFS anymore because it seems they think they need to charge 2.5x what it should cost. I have been ordering fish for years anyway, albeit it was usually discus, killifish or apistos. As far as the multicolor goes, not a bad trade off if you ask me. They are a beautiful fish. Some time look up a blue-black phase potter's. That is my holy grail. Hiroyuki Tanaka has a very small picture of one floating around the internet. It's good to know that she doesn't beat up on the wrasses at all as that was my main concern. I was originally wanting the flames due to the fact that I was thinking of doing just hawaiian fish. Now, I am not so sure. I am really liking the Rhomboids too. I have a while to figure it all out and plan on keeping my options open until the tank is ready anyway. And that will be a while yet.
All I can say about the seahawks is at least they can cover steve smith... more than my beloved bears seemed to want to do.
 
Today I had a LFS near me put a fairy wrasse on hold for me. Thing is, I dont know what kind it is and he doesnt either. I havent actually seen the fish or even a picture - he just described it as looking like a lineatus/?? (I forget what he said there, possibly scott's, but then again it could just be that I was still hung up about how he had sold the scott's I was interested in - the reason I called - and still had scott's on the brain). He also said it came from Vanuatu. I'll be seeing it tomorrow, but I'd like to have at least an idea of what it might turn out to be before I leave and quite possibly bring it home. Oh and I didnt ask about the price, forgot, so I cant tell what it could be from that. So my question is, what are some lineatus-looking (the reflective specks I suppose) fairies from Vanuatu? If there's quite a few, what has been comming in more commonly lately?
 
Marcel,

I had several tank photos up on this thread a while back. I started deleting those photos because I had all these new fish pictures to insert in my gallery and I needed space for that. Currently I'm working on trying to put together a short video of my main tank featuring the Johnsonis. Is there a way that Reef Central will allow me to load a short video on a forum post?

If not I'll have to see how I can get a third party web site to try and host my short video. Then I'll provide a link. Let me try and work through this if possible.

I'll try bringing back some tank pictures to my gallery as soon as I can
 
Bronco the new Johnsonis are beautiful. I just got a Lineatus and am thrilled with his looks. Just need some females.

That's a great picture, what camera you using?
 
douglasnj,

For that last picture I posted I'm using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ10 12xZoom leica lens digital. It's a great camera but I'd like to get a bit more professional with my picture taking so I am looking into moving up to a Nikon D50 Digital SLR with a 60mm Nikkor Macro lens and a Hot shoe flash. This will allow me to get crisper shots in low light with intense closeups of the fish. Even if the fish move around a lot........like wrasses typically do. I'm doing my homework right now and price shopping.

I'm planning a trip to Italy soon and I'll be going to the aquarium in Genoa. I want to have my camera by then so I can get some great shots.
 
I don't know if you can take better pictures than you currently do, But hey, I open to be a judge. LOL.. I have the Minolta 7D. Its great and I had a lot of lenses from my older Minolta SLR. I need to practice on tank shots.
I was in Genoa a few years back. A business/friend of mine has a house there and had bought a new boat, so we drove from Parma to Genoa for a few hour of crusing around. Great restaurant on one the highest points in the city. Great views of the city and harbor. Cant remember the name, but I'll get it for you. You will love the city.
 
I know I've asked this before, but can I get a list of fairy wrasses that you personally think are suitable for a 40 gallon reef tank?

I really want a scotts, but I believe earlier I was told not to because although they are around the same size as other wrasses, they need more swimming room?
 
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