The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[Tcook]

Slocke ain’t chopped liver

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

Caught my cleaner yawning today! Also managed to get my valenciennea eating pellets, although they come out of his gills half of the time. Gotta be the best feeling when your fish settles right.

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

There's always the fall back method... have a bunch of large fish + buy it from a vendor that quarantines so you can put it right into the tank...

Found that my cleaner eats the best when his food is crushed up. I bite off hunks of frozen PE mysis from the slab and grind them up with the end of my turkey baster before it completely defrosts. I feed in the morning when the marginatus and other highly competitive fish aren't awake, they would steal larger chunks if he spat them back out to chew. Brine is usually small enough for him to swallow.

He also nibbles pellets, although that was after generous showers of the stuff over a week. Better than my hawkfish that won't care for them I guess.

 

[i cant think]

Oh dispilus… How’d you come up with that??

It was either your option or a Halichoeres radiatus and the juvenile phase for the Radiatus looks nothing like that juvenile

 

[JoJosReef]

#WrasseWednesday

 

[JoJosReef]

I think a pinkie and a rubeus would fit in nicely with this bunch.

New video by Joseph Campo

photos.app.goo.gl

 

[OrchidMiss]

Sid was a nosey wrasse yesterday..

 

[JoJosReef]

Sid was a nosey wrasse yesterday..

Pretty amazing that he'll come right up to your hand. My wrasses hit the sand as soon as my hands go in the tank. Had to take a BTA out yesterday. H. chrysus was like "Nope!", and the leopard waffled a bit then said goodnight.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Pretty amazing that he'll come right up to your hand. My wrasses hit the sand as soon as my hands go in the tank. Had to take a BTA out yesterday. H. chrysus was like "Nope!", and the leopard waffled a bit then said goodnight.

Sid is a funny little guy. He's super nosey and always wants to see what my hands are doing in there. I hand feed him often, he lets him pet him, too.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Maybe I should clean the glass next time..
@i cant think Calvin's colors are coming in. Almost a handsome as yours

 

[Slocke]

I just heard that a supplier of fish to public aquariums does not know the difference between H chrysus and H hortulanus…..

Explain that

 

[i cant think]

Maybe I should clean the glass next time..
@i cant think Calvin's colors are coming in. Almost a handsome as yours

Calvin is gorgeous, at the moment I’d say he looks nicer than mine as mine is fairly beaten up. Possibly by 3 fish;
Ctenochaetus binotatus
Cyprinocirrhites polyactis
Halichoeres chloropterus

My bet is still on the Jade, but I’ve seen visual aggression from the Jade and Tang not from the Hawk (albeit a week or so after the Hawk went in, the aggression began)

 

[jkcoral]

Everyone waiting for more eggs on this wrasse Wednesday.

 

[OrchidMiss]

@Slocke Grant's blues are coming in, too! He's so pretty.

 

[JoJosReef]

Everyone waiting for more eggs on this wrasse Wednesday.

Nice acantho and pikachu colony! Rhomboid ain't too shabby either.

 

[JoJosReef]

@Slocke Grant's blues are coming in, too! He's so pretty.

At first I thought there was a mantis shrimp behind Grant (watch out!), but finally figured out it's your ribbon eel--mesmerizing fish, btw.

 

[Slocke]

@Slocke Grant's blues are coming in, too! He's so pretty.

I need mine to hurry up. I love the stars of the adults. I do feel they need a new name though. Constellation wrasse? Starry coris wrasse?

 

[OrchidMiss]

At first I thought there was a mantis shrimp behind Grant (watch out!), but finally figured out it's your ribbon eel--mesmerizing fish, btw.

Don't tempt me... My LFS has a stunning peacock mantis... I contemplated getting a 5th tank...

 

[OrchidMiss]

I need mine to hurry up. I love the stars of the adults. I do feel they need a new name though. Constellation wrasse? Starry Cori’s wrasse?

Galaxy Wrasse?

 

[JoJosReef]

Don't tempt me... My LFS has a stunning peacock mantis... I contemplated getting a 5th tank...

They're so cute with their little smashers and trinocular eyes! I hear they like half shell clams, too.