I was hoping the new tank uglies would not happen since I kept a good amount of live rock and my ceramic media but alas I've been battling some minor hair algae and some major green biofilm on the glass despite undetectable nitrate and very low phosphate. I would clean the glass and the tank would look awesome. Literally minutes later the green film algae would be back on the glass. Cleaned it last night and it still looked good at bedtime. Still looks good today! The hair algae has also retreated significantly. Finally back to what's normal!
Got to take a few pictures today with a real camera. Still not very good at it. Dang ever moving fish. My tiny Acan garden Some fish pictures.
Well, I only have 6 fish and 5 of them are wrasse. Odds will go up a little in a few weeks. There are 3 fish in QT and only two of them are wrasse!
I don't blame you they are beautiful. Just too risky for me with my plans to have 12-15 wrasse total.
Everything says either peaceful or very peaceful so I figured I may as well give it a shot. I can always move it to another tank if it is a problem
For a Scott's? Wow! Can you link to those? That's completely opposite from everything I've read. I'll post a link to the summary I trust most.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+1397&pcatid=1397 3rd paragraph 1st sentence http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/wrasses/ScottsWrasse.php 1st sentence https://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?did=1&pid=971&cid=290 Disposition , however I did find another link to this same website that says belligerent http://www.101-saltwater-aquarium.com/fishes-information/scotts-fairy-wrasse.php 3rd paragraph 2nd paragraph http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/Wrasses/Scotts.php
Yeah, a couple of those do say further down that they should be kept singly. Bad info IMO. I think a lot of that is 1. referring to other kinds of fish which is true. They are very peaceful with any fish that's not a fairy wrasse. 2. A generic phrase they use for all fairy wrasse which as a genus are peaceful. Hey it may work fine. Other fairy wrasse will be the big concern. Flasher wrasses would probably be the next most likely to be picked on and Halichoeres and leopards being probably pretty safe. One advantage you have is a big tank with mature coral to provide lots of hiding places.
Some pictures from today. My Rastas are finally starting to grow. The King Midas have a little hole in them where I killed another stinking pocillipora colony. Thom that's your frag in the picture whenever you're ready for it. My Linckia just loves my corals.
Some bad news and some good news. On the last day of TTM my Exquisite wrasse developed velvet and died within 12 hours. The rhomboid came down with it a day later and died before I could get him started on cooper. Fortunately the Atlantic Blue Tang did ok and is doing well in treatment. Will treat him for 4 weeks with chloriquine phosphate. The good news. I found a large female Halichoeres biocellatus (Redline wrasse) on Live Aquaria and when I got "her" in it turned out to be a non terminal phase male. Also got the tiniest little purple tang I've ever seen. Plan is to fully QT him and introduce him and the Atlantic Blue at the same time.
Here's a short video with both of them. The tang follows the wrasse around like a puppy. It's really pretty amusing. He'll stop to peck at some food on the bottom and then hurry to catch up.
That is amusing! Some of my fish follow a schooling pattern as well. I think most people would not realize how social fish are because they are bought and sold singularly. Both wrasses and tangs most often are found in large numbers.
