Japanese Lunate Fairy wrasse???
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Females are very, very timid. And therefore they stress very easily. I have a male that has done quite well for several months now (sourced via DD).
I started with a pair, but that female had a swim bladder issue from the start. Acquired another female from DD a few weeks later, and she struggled to adjust for a several weeks before she secluded into permanent hiding.
I've spoken with the person who landed a female trio from DD, and he reported similar difficulties getting all three adjusted and acclimated to a closed system. Although he did eventually succeed in getting all three eating and mostly adjusted.
It seems females are tough to handle; males are much hardier.
Best of luck.
I started with a pair, but that female had a swim bladder issue from the start. Acquired another female from DD a few weeks later, and she struggled to adjust for a several weeks before she secluded into permanent hiding.
I've spoken with the person who landed a female trio from DD, and he reported similar difficulties getting all three adjusted and acclimated to a closed system. Although he did eventually succeed in getting all three eating and mostly adjusted.
It seems females are tough to handle; males are much hardier.
Best of luck.
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They look very cool, especially the males!
The pair were in my LFS since Feb of this year. They were out and eating in the store tank. They were alone in the tank. Since I put them in I haven't seen them at all. I hope to see at least one soon. Thinking my tank might be to active for them. I have a trio of lyretails that are all over the place, a yellow coris that darts around and a small argi in there with them. Not to mention a purple tang that chases all of those fish around. This is a new behavior from the tang. Had it in there for 2 years and it just started this crap.
reefjunkie42
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I love mine. Great wrasse top 5 imo
reefjunkie42
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Feed more than once a day with wrasse. I feed pe mysis, cyclopeze and nutra mar ova
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I make sure I feed every reef fish at least 3x per day and wrasses are a fish that I make sure to do so with because of their activity level.
I feed hikari mysys, brine shrimp, squid, ON formula 1 & 2, and will feed NLS pellets (my wrasse's mouths are a little too small for the 1mm pellets still). Variety as well as frequent feedings are key to long term health of our reef fish (certain fishes needing more feedings like anthias).
I feed hikari mysys, brine shrimp, squid, ON formula 1 & 2, and will feed NLS pellets (my wrasse's mouths are a little too small for the 1mm pellets still). Variety as well as frequent feedings are key to long term health of our reef fish (certain fishes needing more feedings like anthias).
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I would say that you should include other foods so that your fish can get everything they need for vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, etc. Bumping it up to three feedings per day wouldn't hurt if you wanted to.
reefjunkie42
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ur post says once a day
reefjunkie42
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nice i would recommend feeding frequently. I see you are keeping these with a purple tang..very aggresive fish I would never keep a wrasse with a purple tang , and if you expect to see it then id pull the tang.small filed down fish hook should do the trick
+1...I have 2 purples...been with some of my wrasses for almost 7 years...never a problem
I'm not a huge fan of wrasses, but after I saw these I had to get them. I have a third one on order and it should be here this week. The hooded fairy pair have not even bothered them, all 4 kinda hang out together. Hoping it doesn't cause any m/f changes because they stay together so much and are closely related.
reefjunkie42
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im just saying in a tank smaller that 500 a purple would be pushing it. to my knowledge its an aggressive fish , either way great pick up.
