Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

sfin52 · Mar 29, 2018

Katrina71 said:
Who says ya gotta switch to being a male to hold your own??? Just kidding. Been in a meeting and wanted a little humor!

We needed some estrogen in this thread

sfin52 · Mar 29, 2018

keep posting wrasse pics and I'll have to get some more

SashimiTurtle · Mar 29, 2018

sfin52 said:
keep posting wrasse pics and I'll have to get some more

Careful with the melanarus, they do not like faires.

najer · Mar 30, 2018

Turns out my old boss is going to SC on business soon, if only I knew someone there to send some replacements for some zoas they lost!?

(Firstly I need to find out if it is legal and secondly I need to persuade her to carry them and pop them in the post at the airport?)

DSC_0002 by sshipuk, on Flickr

Scurvy · Mar 30, 2018

Funny my Melanarus and my Pintail are the best of friends. The Pintail was actually his only friend for the first few weeks I had him and I believe bridged the gap to the rest of the tank. Here they are sharing a snack.

Scurvy · Mar 30, 2018

How much smaller is Pylei than the other two? That happened to my Luboki when I first added him but after a few days it stopped. You can try distracting the other two with a mirror. You’ll be surprised how effective it can be.

SashimiTurtle · Mar 30, 2018

@Scurvy, They are all around the same size... tried to get two at the store that were the same size as the lubbocki on purpose. The pylei gets larger than the other two if I remember correctly.

@najer, I know it's perfectly legal to fly with fish or coral as a carry on inside the states. I'm not sure about importing them tho. I'm pretty sure there's some permits involved.

SashimiTurtle · Mar 30, 2018

Oh, and if you pop them in the post, they'll never make it to me...

Scurvy · Mar 30, 2018

Well if you have a mirror, any mirror really it may help. I used a full length wardrobe mirror if you remember that worked wonders. Talk about preoccupied fish...

SashimiTurtle · Mar 30, 2018

Just looked closely, size from largest to smallest goes mccoskeri, lubbocki, pylei, but there is less than 1/4 between all three. Dominance goes lubbocki, mccoskeri, pylei.

The mccoskeri is ignoring the other two for the most part today. The lubbocki will let the pylei swim around for a little while, then dive bomb her and disengage. No physical contact, just dart over to her real fast and chase very briefly.

I'll have to go to walmart and see if I can get a cheap pocket mirror or something to tape to the tank. That lubbocki will hate his evil twin when he sees him.

SashimiTurtle · Mar 30, 2018

My jungle juice zoas are starting to come back, as well as the purple and hot pink ones that I don't know the name of and have them in a spot where I can't get a picture. I found the rasta frag, buried under hair algae in the 14g. One polyp left. I scrubbed it off and placed it on the rack in the deep blue. With my other zoas growing it should grow too.

siggy · Mar 30, 2018

Brew12 said:
Are you trying to motivate me to get rid of my 6-line and get some real wrasses? It may work!

Nice fish and Im with brew on ditching the 6-line, how do you trap them

SashimiTurtle · Mar 30, 2018

siggy said:
Nice fish and Im with brew on ditching the 6-line, how do you trap them

Fish trap and frozen food. Only feed inside the trap, do not feed the tank. They can only resist for so long.

siggy · Mar 30, 2018

najer said:
Turns out my old boss is going to SC on business soon, if only I knew someone there to send some replacements for some zoas they lost!?
(Firstly I need to find out if it is legal and secondly I need to persuade her to carry them and pop them in the post at the airport?)

DSC_0002 by sshipuk, on Flickr

@ nijer That's the nicest looking bunch I have seen, even you fish is jealous.

siggy · Mar 30, 2018

Robin Haselden said:
Fish trap and frozen food. Only feed inside the trap, do not feed the tank. They can only resist for so long.

just sink a two liter with myssis?

Scurvy · Mar 30, 2018

siggy said:
Nice fish and Im with brew on ditching the 6-line, how do you trap them

If you dont have a trap, you can make one with a 2 liter bottle. super easy and cheap! I usually use small glass cleaner to secure it the glass but you could also weigh it down with sand or rubble rock. Pardon the images. quickly snagged from google.

SashimiTurtle · Mar 30, 2018

siggy said:
just sink a two liter with myssis?

Pretty much, but cut the top off and turn it inside out...

Scurvy · Mar 30, 2018

Yep, and be patient. let the fish swim in and out for an hour or two. Let them get comfortable with it. Then just sit yourself near the tank and wait for the target to enter. Ive found that having half of the glass cleaner on the outside of the tank so you can quiclly turn the bottle upright is very effective. Without it a lot of times the target will spook and swim out before you get your hand in the water to manipulate the bottle.

Also use an empty bottle that had something less nasty in it.. Non flavored soda water or seltzer water is what I went with.