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#1
12-22-2011, 11:37 PM
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Just got mu Lineatus from BWA and it's a beaut!!
Also has a Two-spot wrasse, H. biocellatus, and a female M. meleagris. Now hunting for a male. And wanting the Blue Star wrasses. If I ever have a chance to re-do, I'll go mostly wrasses, too!! Definitely got the bug!! 
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12-22-2011, 11:42 PM
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blue stars are next week
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12-23-2011, 02:57 AM
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Sold off the old "yellow tangs tank" a few months ago. Decided that instead of a few large tangs, my remaining systems will do better with smaller, more colourful fish. Luckily we have a couple of good LFS around here that order in a lot of different wrasses (for me
 ).Adding a Melanarus wrasse & maybe a Mystery wrasse during Boxing Day sales. Would love a Linneatus and Blue Star Leopard wrasse to add to my collection. PS. Picked up a true Exquisite Fairy Wrasse, a Yellow Flank Fairy, and a Potter's Leopard today. (Dangerous to be obsessive-compulsive and have credit at the LFS)
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12-23-2011, 03:59 AM
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Heh, if it's off a credit, who cares
 Now if it's off a credit CARD that might be another matter.I too have a soft spot for the wrasses particularly the fairy wrasses. But have had bad luck with jumping over the years, even on covered tanks. I had a nice pair of blue sided fairies that one weekend I was away the tank sitter forgot to close the lid one night and both of them jumped out. What are the odds.  Lost a few other fairies over the years to jumping and the darn things just landing on the Eurobracing and not flippityflopping back into the water.Just lost a canary wrasse last night. Boo. Really is not a question of "hopefully they never jump" - forget it, they WILL jump at some point - you just have to hope they fall back into the water.Have a pair of flame wrasses now though which has me super excited! I'll try to post some pics later.
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12-23-2011, 04:14 AM
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I am a bigtime wrasseman......lubocks in the small tank......mystery, leopard and melenarus in the big tank......Ive pledged to not put any really expensive wrasses in this version of the tank, aside from the mystery..... Ive had a lineatus carpet surf before.....I like my tanks topless so I am still kinda rolling the dice....
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260g mixed reef, 105g sump, water blaster 7000 return, Bubble King SM 300 skimmer, Aqua Controller Jr, 4 radions, 3 Tunze 6055s,1 tunze 6065, 2 Vortech MP40s, Vortech MP20, Tunze ATO, GHL SA2 doser, 2 TLF reactors (1 carbon, 1 rowa). http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50034 . Tank Video here http://www.vimeo.com/2304609 and here http://www.vimeo.com/16591694 Last edited by fishytime; 12-23-2011 at 04:26 AM.
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12-23-2011, 04:22 AM
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i really want a blue star and potter's leopard. strangely I'm not huge on the other styles of wrasses but i currently have two greedy as heck wrasses (leopard and melanarus) and want more. I also dig me the golden rhomboid.
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#7
12-23-2011, 04:22 AM
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Lubbock's are fantastic little fairy wrasses!! Had one a while back, one of the few I didn't lose to jumping, but one of many I did lose to that stupid ritteri anemone and it's little trick of killing fish with its invisible death ray.
I lost a rubriventralis that way too (another totally underrated fairy wrasse IMHO - have one right now and he displays like crazy. Looks awesome.)But one habit he that he does have that has me right on edge - at around the time the lights go off, he's jumping for what appears to be the sheer fun of it. Nobody is chasing him, he's not going after food - he's just literally jumping and skipping over the water surface. Lasts about 5-10 minutes. I figure it's only a matter of time before this high-risk recreational jumping activity is going to end badly. I need to figure out how to get some netting up stat.
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#8
12-23-2011, 04:52 AM
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OK. So some very quick pics. Just snapped off a few frames at low res. but no time to take really good pics of these very active fish.
 (Solorensis & Lubbock's)  Temmenckii fairy  Orange back fairy  Filament Flasher  Blurry pic of Leopard and Ornate Leopard  Yellow Flanked fairy
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