Thank you very much! Funny you mention the Melanurus wrasse.. I spotted the Leopard wrasse a little bit ago and as soon as my Melanurus wrasse spotted it, the Melanurus chased it away. I was actually surprised to see it out so soon. I looked for a while and couldn't find it. I fed shortly after and I think that's what got it out. So far my Melanurus has been good with all my other wrasses so I think he'll be fine with the new one too.
One of the new Borbonius Anthias is out and eating well.. That's a really good sign. Not sure where the other one is. There are an awful lot of places for it to hide. Hopefully it's ok. I took several hours to acclimate using drip system that continually exchanges water very slowly. They came in really low salinity so the really slow acclimation was necessary. I don't QT my fish here and while that may be frowned on, in 20 years of doing it this way, I've never had an issue as a result of that although some of my fish do come from a QT system at my friend Jim's place.
Truth is I wasn't expecting to see any of these fish so soon so it's a blessing that I've seen at least one of the Borbonius already and even more so that it's eating aggressively. I got the Borbonius Anthias really really cheap as they were still in the bags from airplane ride from overseas. As such, I wouldn't be surprised if I end up loosing one.. Even if I do, the combined cost for the two is still about half of what it would have cost me for one from Live Aquaria. While I hate loosing any fish and have a very high success rate, I knew going into this with the Borbonius, that loosing one or even both was a real risk so I have good reason to be optimistic at this point.
Here are a couple shots of two of the three new fish in the tank.
Loving the Borbonius. So pretty and I've been wanting one for years!
