Dez
I have a 20 high set up as qt,so I might just take the cleaner wrass(plus kidnap her manderin :mrgreen: )so feel free to take the chromis(my Mommy always told me it was good to share :mrgreen: )

I was just curious as to exactly what the chocolate chip ate because I have two in my FOWLR and am adding coral. I know mine ate red macro like it was caviar.... :eek:

So far I haven't seen them eat any of the softies, so I would appreciate knowing what not to add. :biggrin: They spend most of their time on the bottom going after detritus (it is barebottom).

Cleaner Wrasse
 

Is this the same Cleaner wrasse that you said I could have for $10 months ago? :eek: You were going to call me when he was done with the ich and I could come get him.... :sad: :sad: :sad:

My understanding is that cleaner wrasses do better (better being subjective, this being a fish that many don't think should be imported at all), in larger tanks (180+). Just my opinion, and I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record, playing a song that doesn't go over well in this hobby, but maybe with a sensitive fish like this, we should be thinking about where it would do best, not about how it would look in our tanks. :neutral:

I'll see if I can find some references on that.

Remember Alan, social liberal.

I don't want to step on any toes :biggrin: so if Pisces had a previous arrangement then I understand fully(besides,she has a bigger tank :mrgreen: )

Hey Pisces,

:eek: Yes, its the same cleaner wrasse that I was going to sell 6 months if not more. I'm sorry I could not remember for the life of me remember your handle, hence the post.

I decided not to SELL the wrasse after I discovered my other tank had Velvet & was worried that net contaimation, adding a goby from that tank would put the wrasse or anyone who bought him at risk. Since its be almost two months with no signs, I still feel just in case the wrasse a carrier he is FREE now & asked that who ever take him has a QT just in case.

If its o.k with Kuatto, he's your's still, if you want to QT him. Kuatto you can still borrow/steal the mandarin if you want. :mrgreen:

EmilyB,

Yeah chocolate stars are monster machines at eating corals. Mine would eat almost anything. I found mine LOVES eating zoo's & xenia are the fav! I couldn't keep any Xenia's! It was like the star could smell them as soon as I put them in the tank and boggy over to eat them. This starfish ate the following:

Urchins, slugs, mushrooms, Xenia, birds nest, any Zoo's, polyps and any softies! Anything that doesn't sting it.

Stays away from my pagoda (to high up the rocks although its tried) & wont touch my frog spawn, but that’s it! Won’t eat anything that can sting the star it seems. Today before I left for work, I pulled the star off my green star polyps! NOoOOOOO!!!! :bad-word:

So hope that helps. :mrgreen: Let the force be with yeah!

I totally hear yeah there Quinn, I'm starting to think the same way with this hobby in general. Especially keeping fish like puffers & boxfish that are so personable fish. I get so overwhelmed with sadness sometime thinking theses creatures should be left in the ocean where they belong. If only I lived by the ocean (where they orginate) I could set them all free...... :cry:

If we could be sure we weren't decimating wild stocks I wouldn't have a problem with any fish being in captivity, really. But we don't know, and with a fish like a cleaner wrasse, it's perhaps even more serious, because this fish serves a double purpose on the reef.

:eek: BW, clearly I have a different species or maybe this takes many months to happen ? :confused: I've had them since June and they are never on the rock. Do you pellet feed your tank?

I have 5 or 6 different mushroom species, gsp, gorgonian, etc. that they've never touched. I can understand the xenia, as pretty much everything I own eats that weed, thank goodness. :biggrin:

I guess we'll see what happens in the long run. Thanks for the info.