What size tank is yours?
45G
never saw a pintail live or in any LFS here in switzerland.
And on this side of the pond, lately they are everywhere. When I lost mine a few weeks back, I didn't have great hope to get another. Went into 2 LFS's that day and they both had 4 or 5.
thats crazy.. the lfs here dont have alot of wrasses despite the 6-line and chyrsus.
while I am not sure if all wrasse are protogynous hermaphrodites, a lot of them are. The super-male is just a dominant male of the group. Most colorful. That is why some wrasse of the same species have better color than the other. I am sure interaction between the male, other males and females in the group have a lot to do with it. I have a 2X1 foot mirror that I often put up in the front of the tank. This help stimulate the fish, similar as in the wild when they have interactions. I don't leave it on for too long (hrs on end) to stress them out, but 30 min to 1 hr or so is good for the fish. This is how I can see a lot of my fish keep and retain their color.
May have to try that with my wrasses then, especially my naoko since the black in his dorsal fun is slightly fadedwhile I am not sure if all wrasse are protogynous hermaphrodites, a lot of them are. The super-male is just a dominant male of the group. Most colorful. That is why some wrasse of the same species have better color than the other. I am sure interaction between the male, other males and females in the group have a lot to do with it. I have a 2X1 foot mirror that I often put up in the front of the tank. This help stimulate the fish, similar as in the wild when they have interactions. I don't leave it on for too long (hrs on end) to stress them out, but 30 min to 1 hr or so is good for the fish. This is how I can see a lot of my fish keep and retain their color.
For example: Blue throat Fairy have reputation of loosing color in captivity. This is mine. IMO, I have not seen a better color BlueThroat ever.
while I am not sure if all wrasse are protogynous hermaphrodites, a lot of them are. The super-male is just a dominant male of the group. Most colorful. That is why some wrasse of the same species have better color than the other. I am sure interaction between the male, other males and females in the group have a lot to do with it. I have a 2X1 foot mirror that I often put up in the front of the tank. This help stimulate the fish, similar as in the wild when they have interactions. I don't leave it on for too long (hrs on end) to stress them out, but 30 min to 1 hr or so is good for the fish. This is how I can see a lot of my fish keep and retain their color.
For example: Blue throat Fairy have reputation of loosing color in captivity. This is mine. IMO, I have not seen a better color BlueThroat ever.
Might have to try it as well. I have read, that especially the pintail, looses it's vibrant colors over time.
My current wrasse gang.
Negosensis
Yellow corris, and melagris
And the pintail
Not the best pics, but my fish are rather shy when the camera comes out.
Both of you have a beautiful set of wrasses!! Cant wait to see more on them
How do you tell male vs female with pintails.My LFS got in a beautiful transitional male (I think I have a photo of him somewhere).
I found a photo after a while of going through different threads!
also the Kwazulu that they still have in.
I think it should be just fine but I know very little about this wrasseanyone have experience with gold nugget wrasse Xenojulis margaritaceus? One of the local vendors had 6 come in for a very very affordable price. I really want one, I am just very hesitant right now because I know very little about this fish.
I did a search and several people mention that they were reef safe and very similar to leopard wrasses.
It will go in a 90g cube with some squareback anthias, checkerboard wrasses, firefish, copperband and a scopas tang.
