Who kept melanurus when feasted on cuc?

[malawinovice]

My melanurus in a great fish. In the last few months I have been battling a hair aigae issue and have reduced my feedings. Melanurus has supplemented his feeding on my snails and crabs.

I have resupplied the cuc ( smails and peppermints) and he has enjoyed the feast.

Is it a choice, melanurus or cuc? Any way to break habit?


Thanks

 

[nonimmigrant]

Melanurus as in Halichoeres melanurus?

 

[nonstopfishies]

Melanurus as in Halichoeres melanurus?

No the other Melanurus. lol.

 

[snorvich]

My melanurus in a great fish. In the last few months I have been battling a hair aigae issue and have reduced my feedings. Melanurus has supplemented his feeding on my snails and crabs.

I have resupplied the cuc ( smails and peppermints) and he has enjoyed the feast.

Is it a choice, melanurus or cuc? Any way to break habit?


Thanks

Well, if a fish is hungry, it will eat what it can find. You are providing CUC buffet. Yummmm.

 

[RealReef7]

my melanurus is pretty aggressive, not knowing when i first got it, the next day i added a potters wrasse that i got from another reefer that ate pellets! well soon after introduction, the melanurus went to work on it, dive bombs after dive bombs and the potters didnt last 24hrs...

 

[malawinovice]

what to do when a child grows up and is just mean

 

[blennielove]

what to do when a child grows up and is just mean

Sooner or later the kid will run into someone even meaner :eek1:

 

[jakearoe]

Okay...this exact same thing happened to me the past few months...

1) Nipped at clam - clam to another tank

2) Took out cleaning crew over a couple months and BIG algae bloom

3) Battled algae (and some phos) for months, gfo, etc.

4) Last straw - took out my 2 cleaner shrimp.

I was fond of my Melanurus for sure, but he had to go (found a good home). A full cuc (and 4 cleaner shrimp!) have now decimated my algae with help from a 'replacement' fish - Fiji Foxface.

IMO your Melanurus will have to go...

 

[malawinovice]

Yes he has to go, now the bottle trap

 

[malawinovice]

got the melanurus to pet store with a bottle trap.

Hey now my shrimp are coming out, and I can actually see hermits on the sand bed again.

Looking for a yellow fish,

Will a yellow coris wrasse but me in the same problem again?

 

[Spar]

I have my melanurus in a 75g QT right now along with 5 Bangaii Cardinals. He dive bombed (shoved and rammed) 2 of them to death before I figured out it was him killing them (webcam spying).

So I assume if he is cool with killing other fish in a small tank that this one is a non-keeper? He would be going in my 450g that is heavily stacked with rock; will never get him out of there down the road.

 

[SecretiveFish]

Not sure if you were asking a question Spar, but I personally would not keep him. I would however try to find another one that is more peaceful. We have one that is in with other small fish (starry blenny, orange-spotted goby, mandarin, and a pair of scissortail dartfish), two ornamental shrimp, and CUC in our 65 for probably coming up on 2 years without too much of an issue. He was a pain with a clam, kept knocking it over, has eaten the occasional snail or hermit crab but that has been all.

 

[Spar]

Thanks. He went back to the store. Odd he was so mean given they are almost always peaceful. He was in-process beating up a 3rd Cardinal when I scooped him out. Will try again with another soon!

 

[betamed]

yellow coris has a better rep, but is still capable of dining on your CUC once its big. I keep both and for the most part my CUC holds up. but I feed a lot. Another nice yellow fish is the royal gramma(well half yellow)

 

[jakearoe]

yellow fish = midas blenny

 

[rysher]

my yellow coris snacks on cuc.
the melanarus i had for 24hrs snack on cuc, then tried to get a taste of the yellow coris.
wife brought him back to the LFS before i got the skillet and butter!!!