Quoyi parrotfish reef safe?
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Lmax8rn
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Well regardless of anyone else's experience, mine loves to chomp on nori all day, also likes pellets and frozen foods. Not much he won't eat, actually. When I had mine in QT he totally pouted, tried to hide and would fade his color when I came around, but ALWAYS out and about in my display. Beautiful, personable fish, and very mellow. Best of luck to the rest of you quoyi owners!
hogfanreefer
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This sounds like mine except he is not eating well now. When in TTM he ate frozen LRS and Hikari Mysis pretty well. Once he completed TTM I moved him to my 29 gallon cycled QT that has a couple of pieces of live rock, a ceramic "wrasse house" and quite a bit of algae. Since then he only occasionally eats frozen, ignores pellets and nori and grazes on the algae on the rock and glass all day. He has completely cleared all algae off of the wrasse house.
He is not nearly as shy and stays out unless I get directly in front of the tank. Even then after less than a minute he comes out and starts to graze.
He has now been in QT for 4 weeks total. I wonder if he would be better off in the DT where there is more algae/rock? Would being with other fish eating from the water column stimulate him to? He seems to be the most personable/intelligent fish I've seen just from observation.
jimmy n
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Mine as well. Tank full of smaller fish except a kole tang. Interrupts and aggression in the tank. It's fabulous. Won't touch frozen food but loves pellets.
Have you tried banding the nori to a rock? Wondering if he'd be more comfortable eating it that way, or perhaps grazing on a gel-based food such as Masstick or Mazuri Omnivore molded / frozen onto a rock?
~Bruce
hogfanreefer
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I have rubberbanded the nori to a rock. I hadn't thought of a gel based food. I'll give that a try.
Myles
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I had the same question a few months ago before I got mine and nobody answered then either so my guess would be no one with long term success.
I originally purchased mine for a 10ft tank but ended up putting him in a smaller 6 ft tank so he could be the dominant fish even though the tank is a bit undersized for him. Mine eats well and has thickened up since I got him but is not an overly quick eater and I do not think would do well in an aquarium with aggressive feeders.
I originally purchased mine for a 10ft tank but ended up putting him in a smaller 6 ft tank so he could be the dominant fish even though the tank is a bit undersized for him. Mine eats well and has thickened up since I got him but is not an overly quick eater and I do not think would do well in an aquarium with aggressive feeders.
What would you consider long term success?
I'm not really sure. I'd imagine they've been available for a while, though my current one is my first. The key appears to be to put them through a nice quiet period of QT to get them feeding on a variety of things, and then into a relatively low aggression display. Given that, I'd imagine they'd be long lived in our tanks.
Not sure they've been available for ten years ... and they're still not the most available fish out there.
I've been baffled by all the web pages that state "All parrotfish are unsuitable for aquaria." or "Only bicolor parrotfish are suitable for aquaria." - Say what? Bicolors grow to pretty impressive sizes . . .
~Bruce, without a quoyi - but whose Scarus iseri is as good at eating as the yellow longnose, regal angel and powderblue tang in the same QT. (Seriously ... that fish _slams_ anything I drop in the tank, except nori!)
I've been baffled by all the web pages that state "All parrotfish are unsuitable for aquaria." or "Only bicolor parrotfish are suitable for aquaria." - Say what? Bicolors grow to pretty impressive sizes . . .
~Bruce, without a quoyi - but whose Scarus iseri is as good at eating as the yellow longnose, regal angel and powderblue tang in the same QT. (Seriously ... that fish _slams_ anything I drop in the tank, except nori!)
Breakthecycle2
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I just wanted to share my experience. I currently have a group of three Quoyi's together in my 250 gallon system. All get along and haven't touched any inverts.
