Wrasses - why it keeps dying

[skyrye7]

I have tried keeping many many types of wrasses and none of them survive past 2 weeks...

I have tried adorned, red head, yellow coris, green coris, marble, dusky etc and all somehow turn up dead

I have no issue with keeping other fishes...tangs, anthias, mandarin, clownfish etc.

Are wrasses generally not a hardy fish?

 

[Rea17]

Can you post details about your tank? Water parameters, sand bed, rock work, tankmates?

 

[eatbreakfast]

Also acclimation, were they purchased from the same place, tank size?

 

[albano]

Are wrasses generally not a hardy fish?

I've got 40 in the tank now... Very hardy!

 

[skyrye7]

Mine's a 180 gallon 5 footer tank

Kh 8.0
Cal 420
Mag 1350
Temp 78F

Have a 2 inch sandbed using Caribsea ocean direct sand

I bought the wrasses from multiple places...all end up the same fate. I bought other fishes from these places too and no issue so I really doubt it's the place issue

 

[ingtar_shinowa]

Is that fate jumping out of the tank?

 

[skyrye7]

No jumping out of the tank...

Just find them dead on the sandbed

 

[Deinonych]

Any bullying going on in the tank? What are the other tank inhabitants?

 

[skyrye7]

Certainly no bullying...when I bought it, it was swimming nicely and no bullying but somehow after few days it end up dead

Other tankmates are tangs, anthias, chromis and a mandarin

 

[eatbreakfast]

What about nitrates and the filtration you are using? Wrasses do prefer a higher dissolved oxygen content than some other fish.

Other than that, it could just be poor luck with the specimens you have received.

 

[Rea17]

Can you describe their behavior prior to death? Were they eating, swimming normally, and active before one day showing up dead? Were they quarantined?