New Cleaner Wrasse

[0sprey]

Alot of our tanks are better homes for these fish than most LFS stores. Wouldn't you rather see a CW taken home and given much better conditions/chances of survival than those at a LFS. It's already out of the ocean, and no chance of going back, so yea there is more than the responsibility of ME to take action against collection. I'm not saying the systems at a LFS are horrible, but in comparison there is ALOT more "in/out" activity, greater stress levels, and ich/disease, than most of our tanks at home.

The real problem with that philosophy is that, by purchasing the fish, you are creating a market for it. So they'll order another one... and another... and another. So long as they can sell them, they'll keep bringing them in. Demand creates the harvest; the fish don't just end up in the shop automatically.
Unfortunately, many people are convinced that they need a cleaner wrasse to have a healthy system... so I don't see demand for them falling to a standstill any time soon.

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by 0sprey

The real problem with that philosophy is that, by purchasing the fish, you are creating a market for it. So they'll order another one... and another... and another. So long as they can sell them, they'll keep bringing them in. Demand creates the harvest; the fish don't just end up in the shop automatically.
Unfortunately, many people are convinced that they need a cleaner wrasse to have a healthy system... so I don't see demand for them falling to a standstill any time soon.

And yet still a fair number of ppl in this thread (considering how many have posted) have posted good things about the ones they keep... So what's to say that its not a bad idea to have one in a tank, because they obviously can survive from what ppl seem to be saying.

We might as well get into the topic of Harlequin shrimp.. they are doomed to die unless you start harvesting star fish for food.

[phillybean]

I never meant for this thread to get switched to the ethics of our hobby. If anyone is concerned about the health of our reefs and not doing any damage to them, this hobby is not for you. Everything, at one point, came from the wild.

That being said, the cleaner is still doing good. He gets chased by the six line, but since the six line is afraid of the net and the cleaner isn't, half way thru feeding time I put the net in the tank, the six line runs away and the cleaner comes out for his turn. Still eating lots and seems like he has some personality.