Never give up hope!

[billdogg]

About 10 weeks ago, I introduced a female Blue Star Leopard Wrasse to my 120 mixed reef. Because they do better as a group, and because the wife and I really like the coloration of the females, we wanted at least one more so that one could change to male and the other remain female.

6 weeks ago, the LFS had another female so I picked it up. It immediately buried itself in the sand and the next time I saw it, several days later, was stuck to a power head, dead. The next week the LFS had 2 more so I got them to give it another try. Much to my surprise, the original female started attacking both of them, so I shut the lights off for about 36 hours and all 3 buried themselves to sleep.

I haven't seen either of the new additions since and had given them up for dead. This morning my wife was giving the tank a good look over and guess what - there are now 2 female Blue Leopard Wrasses swimming around together like they are long lost cousins!

Will the 3rd show up? Only time will tell.

As an added bonus - my tank now appears to be 100% flatworm free!!!!

 

[Sk8r]

I swear fish operate on the 'every day is a new world if you're a duck' mode of processing. They wake up, the world's rules are new.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Good to hear Bill! I once had a yellow watchman goby go missing, 2 months later there it is.

 

[Salt97]

Nice! I found my clownfish in my overflow on my 90gal three months latter. I thought it was gone

 

[shifty51008]

Congrats bill, my diamond goby dissapeard for 2 months and finally just showed back up one day healthy as can be. You would think finding fish in a 75 gal is easy but they can hide good. Clown gobies are also fun to have in a tank, everyday can be find the goby day lol

 

[kmbyrnes]

Hope that third one shows up as well.
Beautiful fish.

 

[Omie]

As an added bonus - my tank now appears to be 100% flatworm free!!!!

Do the leopard wrasse eat flatworms? I bought one like 4 days ago. It's a really distinguish fish!
Btw, they eat red bugs?

 

[billdogg]

Do the leopard wrasse eat flatworms? I bought one like 4 days ago. It's a really distinguish fish!
Btw, they eat red bugs?

At least IME, that would be a big YES. From the moment I put the first one in it was on the hunt.

I tried manual removal with limited success, and then went the Flat Worm Exit route that helped but just didn't work as well as I had hoped.

Now, with the Blue Star, I haven't seen one in a couple weeks.

 

[Ron Reefman]

I swear fish operate on the 'every day is a new world if you're a duck' mode of processing. They wake up, the world's rules are new.

We do a lot of beach walks given we live along the SW coast of Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. We look for shells and occasionally we find an animal that may come home with us (like a small Gorgonian or a hitchhiker anemone attached to the shell of a fighting conch that has died). So we are constantly searching the sand along the water's edge. Well, one of our friends made this comment; "New deliveries with every wave." The oceans are an amazing place and the critters that live in it are just as amazing. And maybe even smarter than us since they aren't screwing up the entire planet like humans are trying so hard to do!:fun4:

 

[Omie]

Good to know. I haven't seen any flatworms, but I know I have red bugs:angryfire:.
I hope my leopard can help me:twitch:

 

[gone fishin]

Good deal Bill.

 

[e048]

i once thought my wrasse jumped out or died because he was missing for a few weeks, then i decided to add a conch to my tank and the conch buried itself and "pop" out of the sand came the wrasse, he jumped out about a week later though

the wrasse jumped not the conch