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10/06/2007, 02:48 PM
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10/06/2007, 06:49 PM
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i have only seen a few pylei that i like..most i see are kinda dull..they have tons of color when they are stressed though
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10/07/2007, 12:08 PM
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I don't think my male plyei is as nice as that pic, or maybe it's just I'm seeing the comparison between the pylei and the lineatus. The pylei is more yellow and pink. The lineatus is more orange and blue. The scotts is the australian variation. I read a while ago that the cook island scotts (with the red circle) don't keep their colors.
I originally had the pylei pair from live aquaria, but I lost the female when I transferred tanks. She managed to jump out of the holding tank while I was getting the new tank ready. Needless to say, this tank is covered. I wish rhomboid's weren't so expensive, or I'd look for one of those. Anyone have any luck mixing a mystery with fairy wrasses if the fairy wrasses are established first? I keep reading that the msytery's are agressive.
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10/07/2007, 02:15 PM
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I have 16 wrasses in my tank right now and my mystery wrasse was the first one I introduced over a year ago. Since then I have really gotten bit by the wrasse bug and now have 16, mostly fairy wrasses. My mystery has been very good for the most part, he lets them know he is # 1 and then acts like they aren't even there. I lost my rhomboid a couple of weeks ago while I was working out of town and my wife called and told me that she had gotten through my netting and had died on top of it. Of course it was one of my most expensive, but I haven't lost any others in quite some time. Back to the subject in hand. I beleive mysteries can get along with other wrasses.
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10/07/2007, 07:03 PM
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Beautiful fish- I love that variation of Scotts.
As far as the Mystery Wrasse goes, there is one in the 450g display weve got at work, and he really keeps to himself for the most part. Once in a while he and the labouti will give eachother a quick chase, but nothing too serious. Other wrasses in the tank so far include a McCoskers Flasher, C. adornatus, C. rhomboidalis, C. laboutei, C. lubbocki, C. roseafascia, 5 C. jordani, and 4 C. bathyphilus, as well as a number of Anthias sp. (among other fish). No real aggression problems to speak of.
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10/08/2007, 07:42 AM
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10/08/2007, 07:47 AM
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10/08/2007, 10:43 AM
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I got both the scotts and lineatus from vivid aquariums online, just last week. I definitely think the australian scotts is the nicest variation.
If I could find a rhomboid for under $250, I'd add that to my list as well. Zin22, have you actually kept a mystery wrasse? Or is this just what you've heard? No offense, but I'm just trying to separate the hearsay from the actual experience.
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10/08/2007, 01:42 PM
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ZIN22,
You have all those fish in a 65 gal. tank or am I missing something? I thought I had alot of fish... lol nice looking tank of fish . All those are in my 225g
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10/08/2007, 01:58 PM
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10/08/2007, 04:33 PM
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MSN 711 what are you feeding your wrasses?
I have never had good luck with my mystery wrasse. He is in the sump right now for killing my flame fairy wrasse. I thought the harassment would stop after a few days but when I came home from class one day my flame fairy was dead. I was going to take the flame out that night but it was too late! He didn't even look like he was doing bad, but I guess I was wrong. |
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10/08/2007, 04:44 PM
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Is that a Watanabe Angelfish in the picture of your tank? How does it do with the corals that you have? I want to get one but am afraid it will peck at my corals... |
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10/08/2007, 05:18 PM
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Mike, which fish did you add first, the flame or the mystery? I'm trying to figure out if that makes a difference.
For foods, I have a homemade seafood blend (any raw frozen seafood from the grocery store, mixed with garlic, nori, and I think I put frozen forumula 2 cubes in the mix), cyclopeeze, brine shrimp, prime reef flakes, Hikari small marine pellets, and recently, they've taken after the naso tang and started eating nori. I'm more concerned with mal-nourishing my fish than nitrates, so I try to feed multiple times a day wtih as many different foods as possible. And I'm looking for more foods to add to the mix, as well as trying out selcon and vita chem.
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10/08/2007, 06:56 PM
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10/08/2007, 07:26 PM
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I added the mystery wrasse before the flame fairy, laboutei, and my 2 lineatus but my flame was the first and only casualty. Even when I added my lineatus which are quite a bit larger then the mystery he still chased them all over. Also he would not leave my laboutei alone. So I had no choice but to put him in the sump. But if you don't plan on adding any more wrasses then I say go for it you may get one that isn't aggressive but I think most are... There are many other rare wrasses that you could purchase. But I do love the mystery. I setting up another tank in a few weeks and will be putting the mystery in last just to see if it does work.
I asked what you are feeding b/c your fish have great color. If you are looking for another food try out krill they have way more meat on them then brine and mysis. I just blend them up and my fish love them. |
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