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tonight..

tonight..

i'll get them tonight i hope crazylionfish....I know the scotts and labouts were out already.. now if I can just get the linneatus and solar...

One concern I have..... I have a 120g CUBE tank... 30"x30" approx.... do you guys think its big enough for these guys?

the scotts and linneatus are both like closer to 4". When I bought them the guy told me they would be around 2.5". The Labouti and Solar are both around 2.5, but the other two are like 4". I am just afraid they wont be happy. I do have plenty of rock work, and it is concentrate in the center so that they have space to swim around and also on top.

Otherwise, I might have to see if I can sell them or trade them in for smaller ones.

G
 
Re: live shrimp

Re: live shrimp

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6283367#post6283367 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ghever
Actually, I meant live feeder shrimp... they are bigger than mysis....when I got my luteo, he wouldnt eat... so I got some live feeder shrimp (which many say are really good for the fairy wrasses) and he destroyed those things...he wouldnt eat with me watching, so I would leave the room, come back, and see shrimp tails or shrimp heads left...and I knew he was eating ;)

G
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I didn't think fairies and flashers would bother live feeders.Maybe that is why my blood shrimp has gone into hiding.
 
Re: Re: live shrimp

Re: Re: live shrimp

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6285819#post6285819 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rothie
I didn't think fairies and flashers would bother live feeders.Maybe that is why my blood shrimp has gone into hiding.
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Ummmm, hell ya that's why....actually, they have more of an appetite for peppermint shrimp... if you have those in your tank with good sized fairy wrasses, forget about it.. those peppermints will be fresh breath for the wrasses in no time.

My luteo absolutely loves those feeder shrimp....its gonna be fun to buy them, drop then in the tank, and watch the big boys go after them.

G

PS:crossing my fingers all my wrasses are out and about today, but I know sometimes they can take a while to come out.
 
some pics...

some pics...

ok, here are pics and an update...

this is the labouti.... poor guy..notice the mouth damage
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/86422labouti.jpg [IMG]

and here is the scotts:
[IMG]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/86422scooooooot.jpg[IMG]

so we have good news and bad news...

The good news.. labouti, scotts, and solar are confirmed alive, and eating, except the labouti, who has so much mouth damage he probably has no desire to eat.

The bad news... no sign of the Linneatus yet, and all of the wrasses have damaged mouths.....from fighting no doubt.

My question to you experts...do you think I should remove the labouti and let him heal?? He was breathing heavy at times, but seems ok....should I isolate him within the tank and see if he gets better without all the beating?

Any suggestions, i dont want to lose a $160 fish... as for the Linneatus...i cannot locate him anywhere inside....i have a lot of caves, so he could be anywhere, but damn he was a big fish, I would expect him to be out and about.

Well, hopefully they got all the fighting out of the way and will be ok from now on.

I need to do a water change, do you guys think that could add more stress to the fish, and I should wait a little longer?

thanks
G
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6285529#post6285529 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CrazyLionfish
I think they should be fine in that size tank. And good luck with them all :)
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Hey crazylionfish what wrasse are ya gonna add with your solar?
 
Still not sure, still searching my options. If money didn't matter I would definitly go with the lineatus or the labouti or a small leopard wrasse.Except I know the leopards can be hard to keep and they require sand to sleep in, so maybe not one of them. I'm still planning on going to Deep Reef Aquatics this weekend, if they have some awesome looking wrasse there, that is compatible with my tank then I might have to pick it up :) We'll see.

As for you ghever, thank you for the pics!!! I would try to isolate the labouti within the tank with a piece of eggcrate or something. If you had the eggcrate with big enough holes that they could fit through, it might be possible that the labouti attackers would go through and continuing attacking, if this happened, at least you'd know who was attacking the labouti and maybe try to take them out. I hope you can find the lineatus! I hope all your wrasses can heal and live together! good luck!!
 
ghever,

I'm probably catching this late because I didn't have time to read too far back in the thread, but you mentioned mouth damage.

Please note that fairy wrasses do have a tendency to tear up their mouths when they first come into captivity when they are placed in a glass tank with no substrate on the bottom. They will rub their mouths constantly against the glass because of their reflection. Now I'm not saying that you placed them in a tank like this, but your supplier very well may have done so. This is probably why they have the mouth problem.

This can typically be healed unless the fish is suffering from other problems like parasites or other illnesses. Then this can turn into something worse.
Best thing you can do for a fairy wrasse when they are first brought home is to place them in a QT tank and let them sleep for about a day with very little disturbances. These fish are very nervous shippers and they do stress out easily in the shipping process.
If the fish has no illness or parasite he will eventually relax and begin to act normal. It's not unusual for a fairy to hide for a day or two or even three when they are first introduced in a tank. It's not unusual for the fish not to want to eat the first day. It's more important to let the fish relax than to try and feed it. If you are buying from a good supplier or LFS then the fish should be healthy and strong enough to go a day without eating.

Placing new fairy wrasses in a tank:
If you had some established fairies in your tank then they will likely show some aggression to the new tank mates because just like many other species....they are protecting established territories. Typically this can be avoided by keeping the new fish in a specimen cup inside the tank until they are acclimated enough in the tank to be able to stand up for themselves against any initial aggression. If you take a stressed out fairy wrasse and dump him directly into a tank of established fairy wrasses......well that's like you sleepwalking into your neighbor's bedroom at 4 AM in the moring. You'll probably get your head bashed in with a Easton bat and you'll be in no condition to protect yourself.

So in summary, best solution when buying fairy wrasses and bringing them home

1/QT is the primary choice - then let them sleep for a day in the dark
2/If you can't QT, them purchase large specimen cups to keep them separated from the other fish for a few days. Turn lights out as soon as they are placed in the tank and let them sleep till the next day.
 
yah sorry about not being able to insert the images... i recently had a nice worm/virus in my computer and so i still have some things to fix before I am up and running...

That is a good idea...I have some eggcrate...I just need for him to come out and hang out like he is..and slowly put it around him.. I just hope he starts eating eventually... I dont think that the attacker would fit through the eggcrate...only the solar would be small enough....prob is, labouti might be able to swim out...anyways, I am going to give it a try tomorrow.. too late now, and lights go off soon, he seems to be ok for now.. I think it was one of those things where they woke up in the morning and said, who the (#$$@$ are you, and started marking territory...

Damn i cannot find that linneatus hiding anywhere...lookin at all the cracks etc etc... he is bigger than the scotts... seems like the scotts has taken over the leadership of the tank....losing a linneatus would not be good..lots of money spent on that puppy.

why can they all just get along??
 
Trying a speciman container as bronco suggested is also a good idea. This should also let you know whose the attacker if they are attacking the container.
 
thanks..

thanks..

thanks guys... I guess the mouth damage could have come from bumping into the sides of my glass.. the bottom is sand, but I have seen them rubbing along the glass so maybe there or like you said, maybe at the LFS is where they got it.

I dont have a QT tank set up..i know, I am stupid.. just no time or space for it... anyways, I'll see how they are looking today.

I did have the lights off from the time I got them til 24hrs later, so they were given time to sleep and relax.

I hope the linneatus is ok and just hiding... be nice if I could even find his hiding space so I can just see if he is ok or not...

The solar and scotts are fine and eating... the labouti is still a lil stressed out, but I think he will be ok.

Will post more pics later....here are the pics from my gallery:

86422scooooooot.jpg


86422labouti.jpg
 
update

update

will post some new pics soon.

Good news... I spotted the linneatus last night, my wife did actually.. so I know he is still alive. I fed them some ghost shrimp which they loved, except linneatus, he still was not eating.

Bad news....Labouti is now MIA....hopefully resting as well. I'll be happy when all of them are up and swimming around and eating.

The linneatus didnt appear to have the coloration of most linneatus....once I can get a good pic of him I will post... maybe it was because he just isnt all there yet.

G
 
hard to say..

hard to say..

its hard to say, I had the lights turn off, but even then I didnt think he looked as nice as he does in the pics I see online... we'll see, he hasnt been really up and about swimming so I cant tell for sure..

stay tuned for more updates.
 
bad news...

bad news...

terrible news... Linneatus...DEAD!! Now to see if the store I bought it from will give me any sort of credit... Labouti is still in hiding after I saw him last....praying he stays alive... otherwise, that REALLLLLLLLLY sucks... the scotts and solar are fine...
 
Were the fish OK in the shop?

they seem to not be fine in your tank from the first moment.

Did you check your water parameters?

Did you check if one of your fish is giving them a hard time?
 
Yes I think they came straight from the wholesaler to him from the conversation. Did they all look healthy and colorful in the bag when you recieved them and in whatever you acclimated them in?

Did they look bad from the begining? Or become bad in your tank?
 
fish...

fish...

Hi Guys

I will test my params... I know salinity is fine, 1.024 ..pH at 8.3.. I need to see what the nitrite and nitrates are...ammonia i will test but I know its 0 because everything else in the tank is fine.

When I got the fish, they were all colored fine and looked ok.

My velvet wrasse is a bully, but my solar and my scotts were fine.

Scotts has ich... I couldnt really get a good look at him when I put him in... but he didnt appear to have ich at first... none of the fish in my tank have had ich before. I did have some other intestinal parasite that hit the fish a while ago, but tank has been clean of that now for around a month. And anyways, ich is completely different from what the velvet had.

Solar has no signs of ich, neither do the others...

I am going to start treating with Garlic and if that doesnt work, I am setting up a QT.

I understand the idea behind a QT, had my scotts wrasse gotten the ich in the QT, I can say it was from the store.... the fish would have had nobody to bully them...though I really didnt see the velvet bullying the fish too bad.. he had 4 of them to pick from and so I thought they should be ok.

Well, it is a sad weekend....I learned a valuable lesson.. and yes, I bought them sight unseen, and they have a 5day guarantee, but not on the labouti, linneatus or scotts, though I know the linneatus and scotts are pretty hardy fish...

Expensive lesson... but I will learn and move on.

G
 
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