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The breathing is somewhat labored. If you havent already, increase oxygen with air stone and reduce lights to low blue. Fish appears thin and needs more than pellets, in particular- meats.- YouTube
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I didn’t acclimate since salinity temp and ph were very close together (salinity and temp were spot on matched)
All he has been fed in qt was mysis, and doesn’t take to pellets and also was eating really good in qt. Should I put him in a acclimation box for the night and see how he is in the morning?
You can. Will provide flow and check before bed and and yes in the morning.
Ok got him in the box now, lights are turning off and hope all is well in the morning with him
Doing good, in the display tank now and always out and swimming around and gets along with everyone
Great to hear. In future, Methelyne blue would be bad choice- Only for freshwater.
You wont regret it that’s for sure, as for the heavy breathing I can’t answer as I’m the farthest thing from a expert lol. there’s lots on here that know their stuff about wrasses. Some of them are @i cant think and @Crabby48 and @SaltyT
Hard for me to say not seeing it. I think tangs breathe faster than wrasse. I’m wrasse and few tang person lol. Some do open and close their mouth a lot and some not so much. I’m thinking what you see is normal. They can be stressed over very little and then breathing is fast or more labored
It’s hard to say without knowing what those other fish were in the store. These guys don’t always breathe heavily unless moved to a new tank. I know sometimes they can be highly dramatic but they don’t seem to breathe that heavily even when being dramatic. As Crabby has said, it’s really hard without seeing the actual fish.
