Wrasse - Blue Side Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura

[Chin_Lee]

Please provide your experience in this poll:

• Use the top 9 poll questions if your fish has passed away.
• Use the bottom 7 poll questions if you currently own this fish.
• Multiple polls are allowed.
• Select the best answer to the best of your knowledge.
• Adding comments or elaborating on the cause of death in a post is encouraged.

The options are as follows:

died within 0-3 months
died within 4-6 months
died within 7-9 months
died within 10-12 months
died within 13-18 months
died within 19-24 months
died within 2-3 years
died within 3-4 years
died after 5 years +
currently alive 0-6 months
currently alive 7-12 months
currently alive over 1 year
currently alive over 2 years
currently alive over 3 years
currently alive over 4 years
currently alive 5 years +

[super7]

I really like this fish. Had some problems with my sixline wrasse but I expected this and just moved the sixline to one of my other tanks.

[Delphinus]

I had a pair of these guys. Lost both of them one night when the tank canopy was accidentally left open overnight. Both jumped out that night.

Of the 3 or 4 fairy wrasse species I've kept, these were the most prone to jumping. They were constantly jumping into the overflow (and constantly jumping out of the overflow back into the main tank). My advice for anyone considering these or other fairy wrasse species, be sure to have a cover on your tank. If nothing else, eggcrate covering the tank that can be moved or opened for feeding and maintenance. Otherwise, it's not a question of "if" it will jump out, it's a question of "when".

[super7]

I have heard that if well fed they won't jump. Might be true, may not be true. I'm not going to test this as it isn't worth it.

[Delphinus]

Total bunk in my opinion, sorry. My fish are particularly well fed anyhow, but more to the point, it's more a function of their behaviour. If startled, they do a really high energy burst / quick dash to escape predators and whatnot. In the ocean this would just take them ... somewhere else on the reef a few feet away. In our tanks, there's nowhere else to go but out of the tank.

[super7]

That is only if they are feeding near the surface, if they don't they would dart into the rock. In an aquarium food comes in near the surface, fish know this. There is an article on this behavior difference in a Coral magazine.
Still it may not be true.
Super7