Karthalin
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Looking to see if anyone else has experienced any other similar situations with this particular fish.
It's a Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse. It was net caught in July and shipped to the LFS the next day (Seattle area). I showed up the day it arrived and watched him in the tank for the next 3 weeks to see if he would adapt to prepared foods. To my surprise he immediately took to mysis shrimp and sea weed, both prepared frozen vegetarian cubes and seaweed squares in a clip.
I picked him up and brought him to my tank, it's a 90 gallon corner tank with a 20 gallon sump (see my sig for more details on the tank). It's been about 3 months since I got him and now he is being incredibly aggressive to the two smaller fish in the tank. The first small fish is a neon goby who was in the tank before the cleaner. the other fish is a small flame hawk that was just introduced this past weekend.
The Wrasse chases both fish into the rock crevices every time he catches sight of either one, whether I am feeding or not. It's worse when I feed, it's almost as if the Wrasse hunts around first to clear them both out before he starts gobbling up the food. I can see no marks on either fish, but the flame hawk is not coming out to eat and the Goby only comes out when some food gets deposited on the sand near one of his cave holes he frequents.
The other tank mates are a Blue Tang, a File Fish, a Red Scooter Blenny, a Yellow Tang and an Orchid Dotty back. I am terrible with the scientific names so I use what I believe to be the more common names here.
I dont think its a chemical imbalance, but here are my tank stats anyway:
pH: 8.0 (been a steady 8.2 since the day the tank went up, looking into
why it dropped just recently)
Phosphate: 1 mg/L
Ammonia: .2 mg/L
Nitrite: .2 mg/L
Nitrate: 10 mg/L
Calcium: 400 ppm
Salinity - 1.023
It's a Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse. It was net caught in July and shipped to the LFS the next day (Seattle area). I showed up the day it arrived and watched him in the tank for the next 3 weeks to see if he would adapt to prepared foods. To my surprise he immediately took to mysis shrimp and sea weed, both prepared frozen vegetarian cubes and seaweed squares in a clip.
I picked him up and brought him to my tank, it's a 90 gallon corner tank with a 20 gallon sump (see my sig for more details on the tank). It's been about 3 months since I got him and now he is being incredibly aggressive to the two smaller fish in the tank. The first small fish is a neon goby who was in the tank before the cleaner. the other fish is a small flame hawk that was just introduced this past weekend.
The Wrasse chases both fish into the rock crevices every time he catches sight of either one, whether I am feeding or not. It's worse when I feed, it's almost as if the Wrasse hunts around first to clear them both out before he starts gobbling up the food. I can see no marks on either fish, but the flame hawk is not coming out to eat and the Goby only comes out when some food gets deposited on the sand near one of his cave holes he frequents.
The other tank mates are a Blue Tang, a File Fish, a Red Scooter Blenny, a Yellow Tang and an Orchid Dotty back. I am terrible with the scientific names so I use what I believe to be the more common names here.
I dont think its a chemical imbalance, but here are my tank stats anyway:
pH: 8.0 (been a steady 8.2 since the day the tank went up, looking into
why it dropped just recently)
Phosphate: 1 mg/L
Ammonia: .2 mg/L
Nitrite: .2 mg/L
Nitrate: 10 mg/L
Calcium: 400 ppm
Salinity - 1.023
