Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse

Frop · Mar 5, 2017

Okay I just got this fish $40 plus a 60mile drive. So when I get home the salinity is 1.021 I have to drip it to 1.025 what do you guys do? Time wise. $40 is my most expensive fish most expensive coral was $60 and that didn't last long :/

Cary Meredith · Mar 5, 2017

I would say about an hour depending on the speed of the drip.

indyjaco · Mar 5, 2017

And watch temperature during the drip

4FordFamily · Mar 5, 2017

I never drip for more than 30 minutes due to temp drops and ammonia increasing drastically/quickly.

Frop · Mar 5, 2017

Just got home. He's already at 74.2f

I'll set a drip line in a second

andrew james · Mar 5, 2017

What I do when I'm expecting a fish is set my QT to 1.020 the night before. Then when I get the fish home I acclimate temp, test the bag water salinity and adjust QT up using display tank water. Then just dump the fish in.

Frop · Mar 5, 2017

andrew james said:
What I do when I'm expecting a fish is set my QT to 1.020 the night before. Then when I get the fish home I acclimate temp, test the bag water salinity and adjust QT up using display tank water. Then just dump the fish in.

Good idea! But.. impulse buy ;p no expecting here. I just walked passed him and it was like he was speaking for me to buy him

if fish can speak I was picking his emotion up lol I was really hoping to buy some frags only.

Frop · Mar 5, 2017

Do these fish jump? I just put it in the tank around 90min later. I heated the water he was acclimating in slowly also.

lambchops · Mar 5, 2017

Frop said:
Do these fish jump? I just put it in the tank around 90min later. I heated the water he was acclimating in slowly also.

Wrasse are known jumpers.

Frop · Mar 5, 2017

lambchops said:
Wrasse are known jumpers.

Dang. I have a sheet (like a grid) I can use from my new tank. I'll cut it to size and buy net for it to replace.

Frop · Mar 5, 2017

Really excited

I managed to do a 10% water change in replacing that dripped water. He came out after I started the power head (to eat the rest of the food that was flying around).

Frop · Mar 6, 2017

Hehehe

lambchops · Mar 6, 2017

Frop said:
Hehehe

They have been know to jump out of that kind of top. I would recommend building a screen top. I bought the kit from BRS, it's pretty easy to build.

Frop · Mar 6, 2017

lambchops said:
They have been know to jump out of that kind of top. I would recommend building a screen top. I bought the kit from BRS, it's pretty easy to build.

:/ sneaky buggers. Thanks for the heads up.

40B Knasty · Mar 6, 2017

Great impulse buy! Very nice fish! Almost did the same thing with that exact wrasse yesterday, but I am at the beginning of a Prezipro cycle due to what another & I thought might be flukes. I have a yellow & purple wrasse and don't know how well they would mix. That would be the other problem

Frop · Mar 6, 2017

40B Knasty said:
Great impulse buy! Very nice fish! Almost did the same thing with that exact wrasse yesterday, but I am at the beginning of a Prezipro cycle due to what another & I thought might be flukes. I have a yellow & purple wrasse and don't know how well they would mix. That would be the other problem

Sucks. I'm hoping there isn't any outbreak of anything if the transition was stressful. Last time I stressed my fish I think it cause an ich outbreak. So far he is just hiding behind some rocks and the glass.

jlear3 · Mar 6, 2017

Just picked up a yellow leopard wrasse, dripped for 45 mins after 20min in the tank to temp acclimate. Seems to be doing well save for a mark on his side from the store

40B Knasty · Mar 6, 2017

Frop said:
Sucks. I'm hoping there isn't any outbreak of anything if the transition was stressful. Last time I stressed my fish I think it cause an ich outbreak. So far he is just hiding behind some rocks and the glass.

I think we all should start driving around with a bucket of water up to temp with one of those small 50w aqueon heaters preset to 78F keeping it warm. It doesn't have to be saltwater or ro/di. Place the bag-o-fish in the bucket w/ water and float it. Then we only have to drip it for 15m when we get home and dump it in

That's if you have a 12v plugin your car.

Frop · Mar 6, 2017

40B Knasty said:
I think we all should start driving around with a bucket of water up to temp with one of those small 50w aqueon heaters preset to 78F keeping it warm. It doesn't have to be saltwater or ro/di. Place the bag-o-fish in the bucket w/ water and float it. Then we only have to drip it for 15m when we get home and dump it in That's if you have a 12v plugin your car.

I have a foam box that's always in my car that should have some insulation. it's literally only there for buying saltwater stuff. I don't know how much it helps though. Maybe I can add real insulation inside it. One time I bought my dad freshwater plants and it was shipped in a bag wrapped in fiberglass insulation.

40B Knasty · Mar 6, 2017

Frop said:
I have a foam box that's always in my car that should have some insulation. it's literally only there for buying saltwater stuff. I don't know how much it helps though. Maybe I can add real insulation inside it. One time I bought my dad freshwater plants and it was shipped in a bag wrapped in fiberglass insulation.

The Styrofoam is fine. Buy some hand warmers and tape them to the top. If water gets on them they become useless. I heard that helps. Also for a power outage. Ziplock bag a bunch of hand warms and stuff them under LR, in the sand, or under PVC. Just throwing that out there. For small tanks owners like you and I. I could see this being a useful tip.