new yellow coris wrasse

[Nina51]

just plopped this guy into my qt. picture doesn't do him justice, he's a beautiful fish!
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[pinnatus]

Beautiful!

 

[Nina51]

i put a small rock in that had some flatworms on it. operative word *had*...he picked every last one off and ate a little mysis, too. nina haz a happy!

 

[Washout]

Great fish, mine is an extremely active swimmer, which is what I was going for. Picked mine up about a month ago to replace a cherub angel that had a hate on for clown fish.

 

[ken6217]

I really like these fish. However I have had them three separate times and each one ended up on my carpet dead.
Ken

 

[Shawn O]

Did you ever put screen over your tank to stop this or do they still escape?

 

[ken6217]

No screen. It's an SPS tank and I don't want anything interfering with the light. I just stopped buying that fish.

 

[Sethjamto]

I've had one for about a year and love him! Very active in the tank and he's loving the fact that his home recently grew from 90g's to 300!

 

[Nina51]

nice! i just have a 10g qt where he will live for 4 weeks. not sure about doing tt as i don't know how well wrasses cope with it. since it came from liveaquaria, i'm pretty sure 4 weeks in qt will do it.

he will go into my 75g dt, probably feel like a bird out of a cage. lol

 

[snorvich]

nice! i just have a 10g qt where he will live for 4 weeks. not sure about doing tt as i don't know how well wrasses cope with it. since it came from liveaquaria, i'm pretty sure 4 weeks in qt will do it.

he will go into my 75g dt, probably feel like a bird out of a cage. lol

TT is no problem as long as a fresh tupperware container of sand is provided for each transfer.

 

[SDguy]

TT is no problem as long as a fresh tupperware container of sand is provided for each transfer.

That said, many sand burrowing wrasses, especially the hardy ones like this, can stand a few days without sand, IME.

 

[Nina51]

i put a bowl of sand in with him yesterday, took it from my dt. guess i will buy a bag of sand then so i can do tt since it'll have to be fresh sand with each transfer. thanks for the input!

peter, i plan to do several weeks and want him to be as comfy as possible. if he needs sand to sleep, he will have sand.

 

[johnike]

Did you ever find your shrimp, Nina?

 

[saltyair]

One of my favorite all time fish. Did u pick a name? Mine is called sinatra

 

[Nina51]

Did you ever find your shrimp, Nina?

nope. think it ended up in the belly of the beast a/k/a one or both hawkfish.

One of my favorite all time fish. Did u pick a name? Mine is called sinatra

yes. i am calling him androcles, after one of my favorite long ago horses.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Love my yellow! Great wrasse!

 

[small alien]

Great fish. My number one jumper. Bonks off my glass top with regularity.

 

[reeferstace]

I have one in my 40B classroom tank. I lurves him.

 

[Deinonych]

Great looking fish! Is that Halichoeres chrysus? May have to add that to my list of potential acquisitions.

 

[xtlosx]

I actually have two of these in our DT and they are by far my favorites... The male is a terminal male, beautiful rainbow head and great colors and the other is a juvi, and or female, who knows. They swim together often, and every so often there's a little chase, but have been together for almost a year now. Highly recommend these fish for SPS tanks. Great pest eaters.