Grrrrrrr......wrasses

Coralgurl · #1 05-13-2013, 03:11 AM

I'll be damned! Feeding my fish tonight and who decides to pop out? The exquisite wrasse, been 7 days since I'd seen it. He's pretty skinny looking so will be feeding a bit heavy for a bit. Still no sign of the other lubbocks tho

Delphinus · #2 05-13-2013, 04:05 PM

When I had a lubbock's wrasse, without word of lie or exaggeration, it was six months before I caught even a fleeting glimpse of him. I had long given up on him as dead. I had tried to make my rockwork nice with holes and caves, but I had no idea it was that effective. Soooo .... I say don't give up hope. Six months! Totally ridiculous...

Coralgurl · #3 05-13-2013, 07:01 PM

Thanks Tony! I was pretty discouraged as I've bought 7 wrasses over the past couple of months and only have 2 swimming around. One jumped, one looked like it rubbed or got stuck on a rock and died. The other 3 just disappeared (until last night). So, I won't give up on them yet.

TimT · #4 05-13-2013, 08:41 PM

Wrasses are kinda funny in that they go through jet lag and take up to 3-4 weeks to adapt to a new time zone. This is especially true if you get them when they just arrive to the stores.

sunoka · #5 05-13-2013, 08:56 PM

When I bought my leopard 6 years ago it was on Philippian time still up at night eventually she changed to the time zone but for the first 2 weeks I didn`t see her and now she is changing sex to a male...pictures of her/him before and now in this form Marine Fish.I am picking up a female now at the end of the month so I expect to go through this again.....

HaZRaTTy · #6 05-14-2013, 03:44 AM

Another story for you, I had a Green Wrasse and Mysteri Wrasse the Green was added before the Mysteri both around the same size. They were in my 120G. I never saw the Mysteri for the first 5-6 months only zipping in and out to feed and the odd swim around I had seen some aggression and chasing around by the green wrasse.

Since I have had got rid of the green wrasse to a new 400G home the Mysteri wrasse is out swimming around and my favorite fish again.

So I guess is there anything bugging it?

Coralgurl · #7 05-15-2013, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by TimT

Wrasses are kinda funny in that they go through jet lag and take up to 3-4 weeks to adapt to a new time zone. This is especially true if you get them when they just arrive to the stores.

Ya that's understandable. I was going to leave them in the store and pick them up a week later but I decided not to.

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Originally Posted by sunoka

When I bought my leopard 6 years ago it was on Philippian time still up at night eventually she changed to the time zone but for the first 2 weeks I didn`t see her and now she is changing sex to a male...pictures of her/him before and now in this form Marine Fish.I am picking up a female now at the end of the month so I expect to go through this again.....

I saw that thread, pretty cool!

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Originally Posted by HaZRaTTy

Another story for you, I had a Green Wrasse and Mysteri Wrasse the Green was added before the Mysteri both around the same size. They were in my 120G. I never saw the Mysteri for the first 5-6 months only zipping in and out to feed and the odd swim around I had seen some aggression and chasing around by the green wrasse.

Since I have had got rid of the green wrasse to a new 400G home the Mysteri wrasse is out swimming around and my favorite fish again.

So I guess is there anything bugging it?

I figured out where it's hiding, right beside my rbta. I have 4 clowns that take turns in it and I did see one give it a bit of a chase.

I'm feeding heavy as it is quite thin. It came out right away and checking now, he's staying out

He also seems a bit more comfortable around the other fish, no one is picking on him.

Now to wait on the other lubbocks.