Spirulina is the Ticket in my Tank!

Yellow_donkey

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Back into hobby about 3 months now. Tank is going good. I have two clowns (thriving), 6 line wrasse (thriving, no more mucus sacks when he throws himself into is rock hole), lawnmower (I am worried is not eating enough, looking a little thin, trying cheato, sinking pellets, others) and an entertaining cleanup crew.

Well everyone used to eat good. Not like a haraam frenzy you see videos about but they would eat a couple, split a couple out until about a week ago (mini-mysis, mysis, formula 1 and 2, all frozen all good brands and multiple brands). I just happened to see brine shrimp (I know not healthy at all) coated with spirulina, so green brine shrimp. I tried this out and everyone eats no less than 5x what they used with the female clown inhaling no less than 20 shrimp in a 2 minute seating/swimming.

I slowly place food into the tank with a baster so that the clowns eat, the wrasse swims all over heck to get what the clowns dont and the CuC and shrimps come over and I spot feed a couple of them here and there.

My question is, this food is SO well licked can I stick with it, is the spirulina a good enough additive that they can get what they need form this one food? I know and was roating between the 8 different foods I had as I read that was best. But can I lean on this food that they love. Also, typing this I had the idea I should look for mysis coated in spirulina, becasue even regular brine shrimp not get anything near the reaction this brine with spirulina does. And this has been about 2 weeks now brine coated in spirulina.

I just want to see if I may be hurting them by switching to mainly only the one food? Thank you.
 
The six line wrasse should make a mucus sack every night, that's how he sleeps.

I read this 6 part series on LiveAquaria about the different types of Wrasses' and it was a great read about this fish species.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/PIC/article.cfm?aid=275


It does say, that the 6-line will produce a mucus sack when stressed only. Mine did this for the first 15 to 20 days and honestly I have not seen a mucus sack in the last 3 weeks. I just went and checked on him/her sleeping creves just now and he is on his/her side, face first in the hole with no mucus sack.

Maybe the sacks I saw where very dense and thick to start and now that he is more comfortable (he free swims 10 hours a day with the clowns, a lot of times right with the pair like he is apart of the team) he only produces a very thin amount that is not as readily observable?

I only assumed it was a stress/no stress production after reading that article. Regardless, its a good read for anyone interested in Wrasses'.

Does yours or ones you know produce mucus every night?
 
Well I haven't owned one for years, but I thought he did. I know I would see one floating around from time to time, so maybe I made an assumption?
 
Cobalt aquatics makes a frozen mysis with spirulina, I get it from my lfs and the fish love it. My fish eat everything though!
 
Well I haven't owned one for years, but I thought he did. I know I would see one floating around from time to time, so maybe I made an assumption?

Sure enough, as I speak he made a full mucus cocoon last night. Haha. So it is a hit or miss. He certainly is not stressed, he woke up at 8AM and joined his clown buddies strutin left to right all day long.
 
As far as everything I know with a six-line, he is a species that makes a mucus cocoon every night to sleep in...

And I have found at that they can be very big arses, too! They maybe reef safe but when they set their mind to it they can be mean too. Picking on new fancy wrasse, arg, loved the little guy, why does he have to turn into a arse!
 

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