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Here is the female..
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eatbreakfast
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It's a female Coris venusta. Coris wrasses are larger and more inclined to eating inverts than most of the 'reef sare' species, though venusta is a smaller Coris. I have also found venusta to become aggressive toward other wrasses.
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I have a female venusta and she's about 4" right now. She is a model citizen to my flame wrasses, my Japanese cirrhibilis lunate wrasse, and my leopard wrasse. Time will tell as she gets larger.
eatbreakfast
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I've triwd them a couple of different times hoping that their aggression was a fluke, but after three tries I stopped for my own tank. There have been a couple in some of my customers tanks, but the same story for them too.
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Well that's good to know your experiences with them. I was hesitant to add her but I got her in a group deal from someone getting out. I may just rehome her to be safe.
eatbreakfast
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For every 'way a fish is supposed to act' there are exceptions. Hopefully you got lucky and got one of the exceptions.
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Well my Japanese Lunate wrasse is dead as of right now. Part of me is suspicious that the venusta may have attacked it but that is just me being partial to that now that I know their tendencies.
The aggressions you speak of, was the wrasse killing other wrasses?
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Sorry for the lost bro
eatbreakfast
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They would keep other wrasses in hiding, chasing and nipping whenever they would enter the water column. They chased all all the wrasses in their company, Halichoeres, Cirrhilabrus, and Paracheilinus.
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Well, I'm going to chalk the death up to something else then. I'm starting to doubt the venusta played a hand in it.
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I also have one. Had to relocate to my sump gotta get him over to the LFS. Really aggressive towards all other wrasses even a few tangs
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It's feeding time...
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Well that made it an easy decision. I'm selling my female now.
eatbreakfast
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In most cases adding a mystery wrasse to other wrasses is not a good idea. Wrasses in the genus Pseudocheilinus are notoriously aggressive toward other wrasses as they get older. It may work out in the beginning, but after awhile it will not.
Issues in that the mystery wrasse once established will likely pester and bully the other wrasses
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So my ruby head wrasse has been in qt for two weeks, I did one prazi treatment, he eats frozen well and his feces looks normals. He is a bit stressed in my 20 qt tank, would it be too
Soon to move him into the acclimation box? I feel bad for the poor guy.
Soon to move him into the acclimation box? I feel bad for the poor guy.
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He'll be a lot more stressed in a small acclimation box and then in the DT with a bunch of fish that already have their territory staked out.
Two weeks and one round of Prazi is not enough to really accomplish anything. Give it some time, he'll be fine. I've QT'd 3 fish bigger than that in a 20 and a 29 without any problems. He will be a lot more ready for the big tank after getting used to you, used to captivity and fat from having no feeding competition.
A 10 gallon (this was for only 2 weeks for TTM) but they were fine.
This was the first day in QT for these three. They finished up 7 more weeks in the 20 gallon.
Two weeks and one round of Prazi is not enough to really accomplish anything. Give it some time, he'll be fine. I've QT'd 3 fish bigger than that in a 20 and a 29 without any problems. He will be a lot more ready for the big tank after getting used to you, used to captivity and fat from having no feeding competition.
A 10 gallon (this was for only 2 weeks for TTM) but they were fine.
This was the first day in QT for these three. They finished up 7 more weeks in the 20 gallon.
townjas
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If it is a wrasse that sleeps in the sand get some sort of open container and fill it with sand and put in the tank for it to hide and to sleep
