What size tank is it?
It’s an 82 dt and a 33 sump. 3x2x2
The blue star and a pinkie would hunt pods nonstop as well. I don't know how to support enough lids for these wrasses and a mandarin, but people do it, so someone here will surely know.
A common misconception is that wrasses will be the ones to outcompete a mandarin for pods - in reality, it would be the other way around. The mandarin would outcompete the wrasses for pods - Wrasses will wait between meals yet Mandarins won’t.
Wrasses go after the adult Pods, while Mandarin go after the small, tiny juveniles' ones. The result of this is the wrasses (and Dwarf Angels, Copperband Butterfly) wipe out the amphipod (and general fauna) populations while Mandarin do not eliminate them since they don't go after the breeding population.
That must be quite a task to remove a sand sleeper after QT is complete.Wrasses go after the adult Pods, while Mandarin go after the small, tiny juveniles' ones. The result of this is the wrasses (and Dwarf Angels, Copperband Butterfly) wipe out the amphipod (and general fauna) populations while Mandarin do not eliminate them since they don't go after the breeding population.
What I have to do in by 40 gal QT system is I have a bunch of rubble and rock stack up about 30% of the sand surface. Fish cannot get into this pile very easy at all. This gives refuge for the fauna. They can breed well and continue to replenish the population. This is my "Pod Piles".
I have a pair of Mandarin in this system, and they are fat. However, when I have two CBB and a Twistii in it, there is no pod or mysis visible (all hiding in the Pod Piles). Just two weeks after remove the CBB to the DT system, the QT system is full of live again.
CBB are really good hunter. Not only the wipe out my Aiptasia, Ball anemones, Spaghetti worms, Bristle worms, they also wipe out the mysis and the amphipods and copepods too. The Pod Piles is what keep my QT system resilient in between various fish that put a lot of pf pressure on the fauna polupation.
A picture worth 1000 words. Here are 2000 words.
I just remove all rock and just catch whatever fish I need and the put everything back. Just a 40 gal breeder. Sooooo easy. You should have to work on 320 or 420 gal tanks. That is hard.
I have to pull all the rock out of my 20 gallon observation to do that. I was expecting you to reveal some “wrasse whisperer” technique you have.
I even struggle to get them in small 2’x18” cubes at the LFS. Easiest way I’ve found to do it is corner them into an area where the net is down in the sand vertically so then all you have to do if they go under is swap to that net.
I put my net over the sand where they're buried and gently work my finger under them and they usually swim straight into the net.
Thank you, I was thinking a eightline wrasse, and a blue line leopard wrasse.
I would avoid the eightline wrasse, that genus is outright nasty when mixing with other species.
Is the flameback the wrong angel? What did you order?Hey guys can I get an id on which wrasse did I get? Placed an order but not sure if I got the right one. I got the wrong angel but wasn’t sure on the wrasse.
That is correct, Pygmy Cherub Anglefish
At a quick glance you’d say a species from the Paracheilinus filamentosus complex but I would honestly say you have probably gotten a young female Paracheilinus carpenteri - I’ll try find a photo of my Carpenteri when he was female.Hey guys can I get an id on which wrasse did I get? Placed an order but not sure if I got the right one. I got the wrong angel but wasn’t sure on the wrasse.
