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01-19-2008, 11:09 PM
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harsh. sorry to hear that. Why were you not minding quite as much? did it's picking at the other fish slow down?
unless Im remembering incorrectly, I believe your sand bed was crushed coral or at least mostly right? and not very deep either? A sand sleeping wrasse really needs a finer substrate like oolitic aragonite and some depth to the bed never hurts either. CC is just too coarse. I think that might be the problem. Is the cleaner wrasse one that dives in the sand when it sleeps or hides? for example when I had my red coris wrasse, it dive bombed into the sand with some real force. If my sand wasnt oolitic aragonite, Im certain injury would have been inevitable. It might also just be the kinds of wrasses you get. I know some cleaner wrasses that accept frozen foods (which are rare to begin with) die anyways since they lack the right nutrition that can only be had from parasites. The other wrasse that died was a leopard wrasse right? those guys dont have a very good track record either, so I wouldnt rule these fish out of your system due to luck quite yet. 
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01-20-2008, 12:10 AM
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I don't know if the cleaner wrasse was trying to sleep in the sand bed or not. I assumed that he was because other wrasses do. Yes, my sand bed is fairly coarse. It is possible that they injure themselves trying to bury. Hard to say.
The presence of the cleaner changed the fish behaviour a lot...and not only to my liking. The cleaning was interesting, but in order the get away from the cleaner the fish would dart suddenly away sometimes running into the tank walls. That, combined with the little peck marks on the Naso....I don't think I'll miss him much.
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400 gal reef. Established April, 2007. 3 Sequence Dart, RM12-4 skimmer, 2 x OM4Ways, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown (pair), Blonde Naso Tang, Vlamingi Tang, Foxface Rabbit, Unicorn Tang, 2 Pakistani Butterflies and a few coral gobies My Tank: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=28436
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01-20-2008, 02:05 AM
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wow untamed...this stuff is all sooo impressive!!
i just spent my whole afternoon (minus 1 hour) reading from the beginning. i have no clue how i never saw this thread, but i feel like i gained experience just from reading it!! even my gf sat with me for a solid hour looking at stuff. i told her that you built my dream room, but that she should worry as im not good enough at building things to build it.lol great stuff!! cant wait to continue reading/spying on the tank's progress. thanks for the experience!
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