my new baby... AKA The Café

[Goaway]

Mine too! Lived through the move with the clown in a cheaper clear Rubbermaid with a hob filter.

Tuxedo blue has been with me for awhile... 2019 crew!

This makes me sad though. I'm hoping we got urchins who don't read the rule book and live another 4 years.

I have to admit, he's getting less active as of late.

 

[danieyella]

Evening. Whole body hurts. Making breakfast for dinner. Got a new bottle of gin. Catching up on everything, I think....

 

[Scratch08]

O my gosh my wife would be so happy to get a Valentini again. Had one for years in my fowlr days.

Scared to add with urchin, shrimps, and snails and hermits :s

Mine did not mess with the pin cushion I had…I think part of his model behavior is because he was only about 3/4” when I got him, close to 3” now, so he pretty much has only known that I am the food provider. He has gone after some smaller cerinth snails… but I have hundreds of them, so I really don’t mind

 

[Nate Chalk]

Should I get a ph monitor. ?

 

[Scratch08]

Should I get a ph monitor. ?

My opinion is no… I very rarely if ever test ph…as long as you can keep your alk stable and where you want it you shouldn’t have to worry about ph…again…my opinion

 

[Nate Chalk]

My opinion is no… I very rarely if ever test ph…as long as you can keep your alk stable and where you want it you shouldn’t have to worry about ph…again…my opinion

Roger that. I'll save for a Valentini (a friendly one) lol

 

[Scratch08]

I guess I should splain it a little more… ph dictates the alk limit… higher ph means you can maintain a higher alk and vice versa… the lower the ph the lower the level of maintainable alk…so, if you can maintain your alk at the level you want your ph should not be an issue

Edit…pretty sure I got that right… it’s a tequila Saturday sooooo… who knows

 

[Nate Chalk]

I guess I should splain it a little more… ph dictates the alk limit… higher ph means you can maintain a higher alk and vice versa… the lower the ph the lower the level of maintainable alk…so, if you can maintain your alk at the level you want your ph should not be an issue

Edit…pretty sure I got that right… it’s a tequila Saturday sooooo… who knows

I've never measured PH, interested where it lands one time to give me a baseline. I could probably use the KH guardian probe. tbh...

 

[Scratch08]

Ehh don’t listen to the tequila guy… he has it backwards… alk stabilizes ph … my bad…but I still don’t test for it… I just make sure my alk is stable

 

[Scratch08]

I've never measured PH, interested where it lands one time to give me a baseline. I could probably use the KH guardian probe. tbh...

Or just get a cheap ph test kit and check it… Red Sea or which ever you prefer

 

[fishguy242]

Good evening all...
PH monitor, pinpoint , live on it, reverse what scratch said the ph can also tell you you alk ,JME...
Busy outside all day , lots of greens to burn, somebody's gotta do it...

Have a great night all...


poppin...

 

[Scratch08]

Good evening all...
PH monitor, pinpoint , live on it, reverse what scratch said the ph can also tell you you alk ,JME...
Busy outside all day , lots of greens to burn, somebody's gotta do it...

Have a great night all...


poppin...

So regardless… I was somewhat correct either way

 

[Nate Chalk]

Good evening all...
PH monitor, pinpoint , live on it, reverse what scratch said the ph can also tell you you alk ,JME...
Busy outside all day , lots of greens to burn, somebody's gotta do it...

Have a great night all...


poppin...

pinpoint on order i wanna be a cool kid

 

[Scratch08]

pinpoint on order i wanna be a cool kid

We’ll keep the plank extended for ya

 

[i cant think]

I've read about keeping multiple females for 1 male. Someone told me, and someone has experience with all their females turning male. But, different wrasse species. Or was it the same species as h. leucoxanthus?

Most of the time with Cirrhilabrus, Halichoeres and Paracheilinus species the females always transition unless in large tanks. The other guys (Anampses, Pseudojuloides, Macropharyngodon, Xenojulis) don’t seem to transition as often and can be kept in harems in smaller tanks (4-6’).

 

[tbrown]

Most of the time with Cirrhilabrus, Halichoeres and Paracheilinus species the females always transition unless in large tanks. The other guys (Anampses, Pseudojuloides, Macropharyngodon, Xenojulis) don’t seem to transition as often and can be kept in harems in smaller tanks (4-6’).

Thanks, Biocellatus it is!

 

[i cant think]

Thanks, Biocellatus it is!

Well, if that was the guess of Leucoxanthus bs Biocellatus why didn’t you say?
Leucoxanthus is nice but come on, biocellatus is 10x nicer no matter if male or female.

 

[i cant think]

Still waiting on the red coris to turn . Still looking clownfish like.

The colouration you’re waiting for isn’t the male colouration but the mature female colouration.
Coris gaimard has 3 different colour patterns;
Juvenile is the infamous red, black and white patterning.
Mature Female is the blue spots, yellow tail and red body
Mature male is completely different! And generally, this colour only appears once it’s outgrown almost all tanks.

 

[i cant think]

Will turn into a he. Not sure what happens in the ocean to keep them female. Once they get into our tanks. They just start going all out male.

In the ocean these guys are found in huge groups, often those groups have transitional males, females and one alpha male. The males often hide as females so it appears to be a female for a while and then as soon as the mature male dies, the transitional males often finish the transition and fight it out until one alpha is back, then the cycle repeats. In our tanks this cycle occurs however we aren’t actually able to tell if we have females or males if we get rather large specimens of these wrasses.

But the pretty ones are the females I think. Hmmm.

Well, the females are nice but the male is also incredibly nice.
This is a mature male biocellatus.

 

[i cant think]

This guy is a male Halichoeres iridis however it’s questionable if he will continue the transition or not however the transition can take anywhere from years to even just a day or two.

The other thing is males can suppress other males in the transition. I’ve seen this with my male Halichoeres chloropterus and my Halichoeres iridis. The iridis has transitioned faster and suppressed the chloropterus for now.