From The Bedroom Down To The Lounge

[1entra]

Struggling to get decent pics at the minute as the wrasse just dont wanna stay still even for a second!!! But here are a couple, not the best but will have to do for time being!

only managed to catch half of the scotts wrasse flashing on this pic but will give you a little indication as to the colouration...

 

[Buddyboy67]

Lovely fish mate..watch these guys for jumping though...I lost one of the fairy wrasse in your first pic the day after i bought him...jumped while i was at work and found him stone hard on the floor when i got home...gutted!!!

 

[1entra]

Lovely fish mate..watch these guys for jumping though...I lost one of the fairy wrasse in your first pic the day after i bought him...jumped while i was at work and found him stone hard on the floor when i got home...gutted!!!

Thanks for the advise mate, I have lost fish in the past due to jumping and the worst bit is my tank currently is open topped so I best sort that out soon as really

 

[TigerIssey]

That rubrisquamis looks just like the one I had a choice of. Even more stunning in the flesh.

I can sympathise with trying to get a decent photograph, they are just so quick its untrue.

They are jumpers, but all fairy / flasher are. My mum had the flasher jump out onto the coverglass when I was on holiday, it scared the hell out of her. Luckily she managed to just flip him back in.

 

[SkiFletch]

great lookin fish there

 

[Buddyboy67]

This is the one I lost thanx to my open top......

Beautiful fish once settled in

 

[kj23502]

sorry about your fish loss

The new fish look stunning Someone told me that his yellow tang is really picky on which fish gets to enter the tank. Some the tang beats to hell and others get to stay and make it home???

HEY get some bird netting and make a top for your tank I'll be doing that eventually. Right now my lights rest on the egg crate on the top of the tank, though

 

[Trod]

You have certainly been through the wars, but I'm pleased to hear you have come out the other end smiling.
Absolutely gorgeous new fish

 

[seffieuk]

You have certainly been through the wars, but I'm pleased to hear you have come out the other end smiling.
Absolutely gorgeous new fish

Seconded and Buddy that wrasse is you must have been gutted

Seffie x

 

[1entra]

That rubrisquamis looks just like the one I had a choice of. Even more stunning in the flesh.

I can sympathise with trying to get a decent photograph, they are just so quick its untrue.

They are jumpers, but all fairy / flasher are. My mum had the flasher jump out onto the coverglass when I was on holiday, it scared the hell out of her. Luckily she managed to just flip him back in.

Yea your right about the wrasse being too quick and it dont help with my photography skills not being brill either unlike some of you good people on here. I got to admit however my wrasse looks very very similar to the pic of Buddyboy's, although I must admit the blue on the fins on mine isnt as vibrant Beautiful fish mate, shame you lost it but Thanks for the pic however, its added a great deal of colour to my journal lol

Someone told me that his yellow tang is really picky on which fish gets to enter the tank. Some the tang beats to hell and others get to stay and make it home???

I believe my tang is very similar to that mate, I added 2 clownfish to the tank at the same time as the Cherub Angel but the tang barely paid any attention to them and instead started it's onslaught on the angel. I dont know if this was due to the clownfish being alot smaller and the cherub being only slighty smaller to the tang or maybe as the angel was a similar shape to it if that makes sense. Also i do not know wether this is common tang behavior or not Also I still want to add another dwarf angel... do you think it is worth risking it or not

And ladies (Selfie and Trod and even our Tina) thank you for the comments along with the gents. Compliments along with positive criticism always help keep a hobbist enthusiastic along with making the hard work required to keep a healthy marine tank worthwile

 

[kj23502]

do you have a sump or refuge that you could put the tank in for a day or two if possible? If you could do that when you add a fish maybe it won't be so bad since he'll be out of his territory for a bit??

 

[TigerIssey]

Yea your right about the wrasse being too quick and it dont help with my photography skills not being brill either unlike some of you good people on here. I got to admit however my wrasse looks very very similar to the pic of Buddyboy's, although I must admit the blue on the fins on mine isnt as vibrant Beautiful fish mate, shame you lost it but Thanks for the pic however, its added a great deal of colour to my journal lol

You may find that the blue edging to the fins develops with age. My flasher is getting more irredescence as it gets older. The first one had alot more.

Time out for the tang sounds like a good idea. Have heard of tangs bullying angels before. I think its best of fish such as Yellow Tang, Purple Tang and another I cannot think of at the moment with the same shape body, are added after all the other fish have been.

Was this left over though so you were unable to to add it last??

 

[1entra]

do you have a sump or refuge that you could put the tank in for a day or two if possible? If you could do that when you add a fish maybe it won't be so bad since he'll be out of his territory for a bit??

well i have got a HOB fuge on ma tank but i think it is quite full with cheato at the minute so i do not think there would be much room in there to keep the tang, but coming to think about is i mite have some net traps lieing around somewhere that i used to use when breeding livebearers several years ago, im sure if i could find one i could stick the tang in there for a day or two till the fish has settled in, might just work, but then again wont that cause alot of stress to the tang? and more importantly how the hell am i gonna catch it? I remember having a similar problem with my YT damsel in my tank in the bedroom and it was more less impossible to catch it without tearing the whole tank down, I remember using several large nets, bottle traps and even fish hooks, all to no avail, I caught every single other fish in my tank other than the darn damsel so I just give up in the end and just left it in the tank but not added a fish since so not had any problems with it!

 

[1entra]

Yea your right about the wrasse being too quick and it dont help with my photography skills not being brill either unlike some of you good people on here. I got to admit however my wrasse looks very very similar to the pic of Buddyboy's, although I must admit the blue on the fins on mine isnt as vibrant Beautiful fish mate, shame you lost it but Thanks for the pic however, its added a great deal of colour to my journal lol

You may find that the blue edging to the fins develops with age. My flasher is getting more irredescence as it gets older. The first one had alot more.

Time out for the tang sounds like a good idea. Have heard of tangs bullying angels before. I think its best of fish such as Yellow Tang, Purple Tang and another I cannot think of at the moment with the same shape body, are added after all the other fish have been.

Was this left over though so you were unable to to add it last??

Well the tang was one of my last fish to be added initially and i brought it quite small and I did not have any problems with it. But since then not only has it grown but due to all my other fish being killed off due to whitespot, the tang along with a firefish and PJ cardinal were the only fish to survive, the tang being the most aggressive out of the 3, it has dominated the tank and so any new fish being added seem to have to gets it's approval into the tank as it flared up at bothe wrasses when added although left them alone after a few hours, but when the angel was added it just went mad till the angel was found dead the following morning!!!

Oh and as far as the colourings of the wrasse go, I remember the shopkeeper at the lfs telling me that both fish would colour up even more as they matured so thats good then I suppose!!

 

[TigerIssey]

Tangs like to swim too much for a net I think, too much stress and probably an outbreak of ick. A sump would have been ideal but as you say you would have had to catch it.

A bit stumped at the moment with that one.