Fish ID Help

Ruth · #1 11-07-2006, 12:19 PM

I don't know if they will ever start to get along - but looking at the last picture you posted and knowing that you have a lot of SPS coral in your tank I am going to predict a divine intervention that will stop the fish from picking on anything or anybody else in the tank.

christyf5 · #2 11-07-2006, 02:03 PM

It could be juvenile coloring? I'd say you're probably right though, I looked on wetwebmedia and they have listed Macropharyngodon negrosensis as the black leopard and M. meleagris as a "regular" leopard wrasse.

Oh and just in case you haven't read this: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/20...hcs3/index.php

Jason McK · #3 11-07-2006, 02:29 PM

Thanks Everyone. Not sure I'll be able to keep the new one. The problem is getting him out.

Delphinus · #4 11-07-2006, 04:27 PM

I'll try to remember to look it up in my book on wrasses when I get home from work tonight -- but (and Christy beat me to this point), it could be a case of juvenile coloration versus adult colouration. There can be some significant differences between juvy's and adults in the wrasse world (well, I guess that's true of many kinds of fish).

Delphinus · #5 11-07-2006, 04:34 PM

Ooops, sorry, missed a point.

In my (very limited) experience with new fish not getting along -- it seems to take WAY longer than a day or two to figure out if they're ever going to get along. The last two fish I bought, it took at least a week before I started to see any signs that the territoriality/aggression would slow down. Both times, at 29 hours I was still certain that I'd still have to remove someone.

However wrasses can be... well .. wrasses. The aggression of my tang towards my CBB abated after a week but it was way longer than that for my sixline towards my potter's angel. Although things are fine now and they get along fine and all nipped fins are totally healed .. I was actually surprised. I thought I was going to have to remove my sixline for sure. I still don't quite trust him 100% but it proved too difficult to remove him without a tank teardown and since he's acting better he can stay.

But leopard wrasses may be a different story, they may be too aggressive. I don't know. Best of luck with it.

Tom R · #6 11-07-2006, 09:23 PM

Hi Jason

I am having the same problem between the new Mimic Tang and the old Chevron Tang. The Chevron is not chasing the Mimic, he is just restricting the Mimic Tangs use of the tank. As long as the Mimic Tang stays behind a pile of rock every thing is fine. As soon as he wants to move freely around the tank the Chevron comes over and he returns to the back of the pile of rocks.

Tom R