wrasse question

[biocubist]

i've had a yellow wrasse for about 6 weeks that i got to handle a flatworm problem.

great fish. looks good. active. ate all the flatworms. but, i'm losing a crab and or snail

every week or so. i did'nt think it a big deal til i lost my cleaner shrimp suddenly.

today i replaced my shrimp, turned my head for a second, turned back, dead shrimp.

water params are good. since my wrasse has eaten everything (pods and flatworms)

is he munching on my crustaceans?

 

p.s. i did'nt see him get any of these crustaceans. but he did get an eye of the second

shrimp before i could remove it.

 

thanks all.

[HecticDialectics]

i've had a yellow wrasse for about 6 weeks that i got to handle a flatworm problem.

great fish. looks good. active. ate all the flatworms. but, i'm losing a crab and or snail

every week or so. i did'nt think it a big deal til i lost my cleaner shrimp suddenly.

today i replaced my shrimp, turned my head for a second, turned back, dead shrimp.

water params are good. since my wrasse has eaten everything (pods and flatworms)

is he munching on my crustaceans?

 

p.s. i did'nt see him get any of these crustaceans. but he did get an eye of the second

shrimp before i could remove it.

 

thanks all.

 

What other fish do you have? Unless you actually see it, I'd suspect something is just wrong with your water...

[biocubist]

only other fish is an algae blennie.

and i suppose the loss of crabs is just

them battling for shells. but why 1 shrimp

death then immediately another. i know

that they're sensitive to water params.

but why a 2 month old cleaner dies

suddenly. then it's replacement dies in

15 minutes. no other problems at all in tank.

coral is growing fine. water looks and tests well.

?????

[Weetabix7]

I think it probably is the wrasse taking them out.

I just got one on Thurs., and the same day I got it The Propagator posted to warn me that they will eat small crabs and shrimps, as well as featherdusters.

It's not such a big deal to me since I don't have those kinds of things in my tank, but it sounds like you need to decide whether you want a yellow wrasse or shrimp.

[biocubist]

Weetabix, that's the exact conversation that i'm having with my daughter

right now. wrasse or shrimp.

i think it just took a while for the wrasse to tear through all of the pods

and flatworms. then he decided to work on my cuc.

i love the wrasse and would keep him. but need to figure a

cleaning replacement for the shrimp. or if a cleaner shrimp is even

necessary in a nano reef.

 

all input welcome

 

thanks all

[Weetabix7]

I don't know that I would say a cleaner shrimp is absolutely necessary under normal circumstances.

I personally see cleaner shrimps more as cool inverts that perform a helpful function, but I don't see them as necessary.

In my personal case, I really do genuinely need the Yellow Coris Wrasse since I have amphipods that have gotten large enough that they've decided munching on my palys is a nifty thing to do.

I need the wrasse to TAKE THEM OUT!!!

Prop also said they'll take out small crabs, if I didn't mention that.

[biocubist]

yah, that would explain my losing a small hermit every couple of weeks or so.

but yes my wrasse has pretty much decimated my pod population.

i did'nt have a pod problem, but i had so many pods with no

predators that red planaria flatorms just filled up the tank and became an eyesore.

that's why i got my wrasse.

i'm leaning towards keeping the wrasse. but, i miss my shrimp. and my pods.

oh, and my featherdusters. those are all gone too.

 

p.s the comments from prop, are those in a thread somewhere ?

i'd be interested on his take on this.

 

thanks

[biocubist]

fts for those following...

 

 

 

thanks all

[Weetabix7]

Yeah, they're in my 16g display tank thread linked in my sig.

I think they're on the last page, they were posted just yesterday.