Breakthecycle2
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It is amazing. Everyone I ever asked said "don't do it", they will kill each other. Nope. The all hang together and since I introduced the big one, the two smaller ones don't chase each other at all anymore.
Quoyi parrotfish reef safe?
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It is amazing. Everyone I ever asked said "don't do it", they will kill each other. Nope. The all hang together and since I introduced the big one, the two smaller ones don't chase each other at all anymore.
Breakthecycle2
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Well, the female, which I had for awhile, came out of QT and into the main tank first. While in QT, I added the smaller male, followed by the big one the next day. While in QT, the big one would show his dominance to the other every once in awhile and then stopped. Once the QT period was done, I added the smaller one into a social acclimation box. As soon as I put him in, the established female was trying everything she could to get at him. It looked rough for a few hours. She then suddenly stopped and I felt it was safe enough to take him out and add him into the display. That went well for a few days, but there was some chasing that eventually stopped. I waited a week or two before trying to add the big one because I did not know if I should keep him and risk trying to add him. I became attached and decided to at least try to add him into the social acclimation box. I did. The others didn't even look him. I decided to take him out and since they all swim to together It's been a real treat. I had to worry more about the black tang being aggressive then all the parrots.
Breakthecycle2
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I think it will work. Social acclimation boxes are life savers. I got mine from Synergy Reef for $50. I am going to try and get pics of three together when the lights come on.
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brett_schn
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In the wild they will eat the dead coral and some rock. I know this from my many dive trips with them.
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hogfanreefer
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I don't think mine is going to allow a second Quoyi. He seems to really dislike the "other parrot fish" beneath the tank. (watch till the end of the video)
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Breakthecycle2
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My big one did that for a little bit, then got over it quickly.
ReefKeeper64
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If anyone here knows where there is a Scarus quoyi for sale, please let me know. I have a very nice home for one. Thanks!
Divers' Den had one as recently as yesterday, but they ran a flash-sale, and it's gone.
~Bruce
P.S. - I'd had a striped parrotfish, nice enough fish, but that one turned out to be unsafe around other _labrids_. Completely tore up my orange-back fairy wrasse, so was rehomed.
~Bruce
P.S. - I'd had a striped parrotfish, nice enough fish, but that one turned out to be unsafe around other _labrids_. Completely tore up my orange-back fairy wrasse, so was rehomed.
ReefKeeper64
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@Bruce, Thanks for letting me know. I'll just keep looking for now. If you see one again please let me know!
Found one at a LFS' autumn sale.
Got 'im through quarantine in one piece.
Watched him bypass whole brine shrimp to delicately sip in the tiny busted swimmeret from a mysis' tail, and worried that he'd never be able to compete in the more boisterous environment of my display.
Saw white poop, treated with Quick Cure and Focus for internal parasites.
Today ... today, he spends most of his day banging away at the liverock, keeping those parts of it that he feels are accessible completely free of algae. He loves nori on a clip, and clams on the half-shell, but not tridacnid clams on the liverock. He studiously avoids any corals - and any GHA! And when the food hits the intake of the return pump and blasts out into the tank at 2,500 gph, he's right there - effortlessly riding that current, watching both returns, ready to dart and grab, willing to take down the gnarliest gobs of krill-tail, whole.
His color, pale upon arrival, has intensified almost daily - his greens are sometimes not too obvious, but his pastel shades are unique in my tank, and it can be fascinating to watch the entire pink part of his body suddenly change to a near-pearly pallor, with all fins raised in elegant display.
I'm thinkin' this guy's going to be OK.
~Bruce
Got 'im through quarantine in one piece.
Watched him bypass whole brine shrimp to delicately sip in the tiny busted swimmeret from a mysis' tail, and worried that he'd never be able to compete in the more boisterous environment of my display.
Saw white poop, treated with Quick Cure and Focus for internal parasites.
Today ... today, he spends most of his day banging away at the liverock, keeping those parts of it that he feels are accessible completely free of algae. He loves nori on a clip, and clams on the half-shell, but not tridacnid clams on the liverock. He studiously avoids any corals - and any GHA! And when the food hits the intake of the return pump and blasts out into the tank at 2,500 gph, he's right there - effortlessly riding that current, watching both returns, ready to dart and grab, willing to take down the gnarliest gobs of krill-tail, whole.
His color, pale upon arrival, has intensified almost daily - his greens are sometimes not too obvious, but his pastel shades are unique in my tank, and it can be fascinating to watch the entire pink part of his body suddenly change to a near-pearly pallor, with all fins raised in elegant display.
I'm thinkin' this guy's going to be OK.
~Bruce
ReefKeeper64
Wanna be a reefkeeper
My Quoyi Parrotfish - had him since Sept 27, 2017.
My Quoyi Parrotfish - had him since Sept 27, 2017.
Congrats on your new quoyi parrotfish! It sounds like he's doing really well.
Here is a video of the one you helped me find back in September. Thanks again for your help finding him.
Quoyi Parrotfish - had him since Sept 27, 2017.
My Quoyi Parrotfish - had him since Sept 27, 2017.
Congrats on your new quoyi parrotfish! It sounds like he's doing really well.
Here is a video of the one you helped me find back in September. Thanks again for your help finding him.
Quoyi Parrotfish - had him since Sept 27, 2017.
Ah, I wasn't clear.
He eats pellets. And flake. And nori. And clams on the half-shell. And film algae. And blended frozen foods. He eats everything except tankmates, hair algae and corals, and he does it with gusto!
Thanks, Dmorty and Reefkeeper64!
Video from a week or so ago - food hits the returns at about 15 seconds in, but it's mostly calanus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epV7K1tWK9Y
~Bruce
