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04/30/2016, 07:11 PM | #1 |
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Can someone tell me what kind of fish this is ?
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04/30/2016, 07:14 PM | #2 |
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Leopard wrasse, great little fish��
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04/30/2016, 08:29 PM | #3 |
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Yup, female blue star leopard wrasse. Great fish for an established tank as they feed a lot on copepods. Once they settle in they'll eat most offerings but sometimes that takes a while so a good healthy stock of pods and live foods, if available, go a long way.
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04/30/2016, 08:39 PM | #4 |
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+1 female blue star leopard wrasse (macropharyngodon bipartitus).
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take it easy, pyithar Current Tank Info: 150G display, 50G sump, mixed reef |
05/01/2016, 05:55 AM | #6 |
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I have a pair. They were responsible for absolutely decimating my flatworm population, including carefully plucking each and every one off of my LPS, especially in rather large Elegance that seemed to be a FW magnet.
Two of my very favorite fish, and certainly the hardest workers in the system.
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I'll try to be nice if you try to be smarter! I can't help that I grow older, but you can't make me grow up! Current Tank Info: 120 mixed reef with 40b sump, RO 150 skimmer, AI Sol Blue x 2, and a 60g Frag Tank with 100g rubbermaid sump. 2 x Kessil A360w lights, BM curve 5 skimmer |
05/01/2016, 05:59 AM | #7 |
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I've often wondered how one of these would do in my system with a mandarin. Probably not good would be my first guess.
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Quitters never lose. [QUOTE=CStrickland]Who gets mad at a starfish?[/QUOTE] Current Tank Info: 75g DT, 30G refugium, 10g chaeto tank, 50g stock tank basement sump |
05/01/2016, 08:37 AM | #8 |
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I've read that these fishe's are hard to qt? Is that correct?
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05/01/2016, 10:03 AM | #9 |
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They sleep buried in the sand, so at a minimum, you'll have to provide a plastic bowl with 3+ inches of fine sand. I got mine about a month apart, and they both did fine in QT (more an observation tank - after 2 weeks or so and a round of Prazipro I put them in the DT, where LW #1 started swimming around hunting right off the bat. LW #2 buried itself in the sand for about a month - I had given it up for lost - and then one day appeared out and about, hunting with her? buddy. They are always together now swimming amongst the rocks, on the hunt for something tasty.
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take it easy, pyithar Current Tank Info: 150G display, 50G sump, mixed reef |
05/01/2016, 10:32 AM | #11 |
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what a stunner
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