kapnkush608
2500 Club Member
Ten years in and I cannot keep a wrasse alive for more than a few days. In the past 4 months alone I've killed:
- Kato Wrasse
- 2 Carpenters
- Pintail Wrasse
This issue stems from when I started 10 years ago. Wrasses are my favorite fish and I've never been able to keep them. The best success Ive had was a sixline that my friend gave to me because "I honestly doubt you could kill him if you tried"... He lasted six months and disappeared. My boss seems to think it's my neon Dottyback but seriously he is not aggressive at all and I got him because I've been trying to keep wrasses for the better part of the decade and it was a gift to fill the wrasse shaped void in my soul which doesn't explain the other ~20 wrasses. This last attempt was a $500 flush fest and I really can't handle it anymore. The latest example was this beautiful Pintail. Fresh from the ocean, he was collected, shipped, unpacked by my lady herself, placed in the wrasse system for one day, was eating and very active, brought home the next day by me. I temp acclimated for about 30 minutes after a 10 minute car ride after work and fast drip acclimated for about 20 minutes. Released him in to the tank and immediately he fit right in. 0 signs off aggression from any fish and ate immediately with everyone else instead of hiding right away. He was out for hours swimming, no fear, nobody was picking on him and he was just playing in the current. I was so happy as that was the most outgoing a wrasse I had gotten ever was. I woke up the next morning and their he was in the low flow settling pile, dead and picked almost clean. Details in my build thread and any questions you have just ask. I only have one suspect and its my girls harlequin serpent star. Other than that I honestly have no clue. Things I've tried include:
- Temp Match, Pop and Drop
- Long Acclimation
- Short Acclimation
- QT
- Acclimation box * all the methods above
- Sitting in front of my tank for hours on a yoga ball until after lights out watching the wrasse go to bed and getting barely any sleep just to hurry and wake up only to find a dead wrasse (The Pintail, my absolute favorite wrasse)
Please help me before I kill anymore wrasses and just pack my tank with Tannerite and pop it with a .308.
- Kato Wrasse
- 2 Carpenters
- Pintail Wrasse
This issue stems from when I started 10 years ago. Wrasses are my favorite fish and I've never been able to keep them. The best success Ive had was a sixline that my friend gave to me because "I honestly doubt you could kill him if you tried"... He lasted six months and disappeared. My boss seems to think it's my neon Dottyback but seriously he is not aggressive at all and I got him because I've been trying to keep wrasses for the better part of the decade and it was a gift to fill the wrasse shaped void in my soul which doesn't explain the other ~20 wrasses. This last attempt was a $500 flush fest and I really can't handle it anymore. The latest example was this beautiful Pintail. Fresh from the ocean, he was collected, shipped, unpacked by my lady herself, placed in the wrasse system for one day, was eating and very active, brought home the next day by me. I temp acclimated for about 30 minutes after a 10 minute car ride after work and fast drip acclimated for about 20 minutes. Released him in to the tank and immediately he fit right in. 0 signs off aggression from any fish and ate immediately with everyone else instead of hiding right away. He was out for hours swimming, no fear, nobody was picking on him and he was just playing in the current. I was so happy as that was the most outgoing a wrasse I had gotten ever was. I woke up the next morning and their he was in the low flow settling pile, dead and picked almost clean. Details in my build thread and any questions you have just ask. I only have one suspect and its my girls harlequin serpent star. Other than that I honestly have no clue. Things I've tried include:
- Temp Match, Pop and Drop
- Long Acclimation
- Short Acclimation
- QT
- Acclimation box * all the methods above
- Sitting in front of my tank for hours on a yoga ball until after lights out watching the wrasse go to bed and getting barely any sleep just to hurry and wake up only to find a dead wrasse (The Pintail, my absolute favorite wrasse)
Please help me before I kill anymore wrasses and just pack my tank with Tannerite and pop it with a .308.
