StinkyBunny Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 If I cut mine any shorter, there will be scalp showing. 3 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 If I cut mine any shorter, there will be scalp showing. Yeah, you don't need to scalp yourself. I said I'm done w/ coloring! Unless I want to something for fun later like blue or purple, I'm no longer a slave to dyeing!!!! And I'm lovin' it. 2 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Meet my Starry Blenny, who's finding himself a very comfortable perch w/ the rose coral. And my Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse. He's not doing so well. Was pretty still but breathing heavy in the bag as I did temp and salinity acclimation for 1 hr 15 mins. When I let him out he had a few moments where he zipped from one place to another out of nervousness and then breathing heavy again. I hope he makes it overnight. 7 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 They're both absolutely beautiful I hope the wrasse pulls through! Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 He's really pretty!!! Hope he makes it. I never acclimate my fish except to temp unless the salinity isn't close. The bag really stresses them out. Flasher wrasse's are known to "play dead" though. I am not sure about fairys. My LFS just got a Lubbock's in this week. I may have to go check him out after seeing yours. 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Sadly, the lubbocks fairy was dead in the tank this am. The water in the bags was very different. 1.017-1.019. I keep mine at 1.026. I added water slowly over 1 hr 15 mins but he was looking stressed in the bag when I got him. He was breathing heavy and moving little. While the Starry who was from the same facility and picked up at the same time is swimming around, laying up against rocks. I'm thawing some mysis and mincing it up so even the tiny cherub can get some. Quote Link to comment
Astinus Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Sadly, the lubbocks fairy was dead in the tank this am. The water in the bags was very different. 1.017-1.019. I keep mine at 1.026. I added water slowly over 1 hr 15 mins but he was looking stressed in the bag when I got him. He was breathing heavy and moving little. While the Starry who was from the same facility and picked up at the same time is swimming around, laying up against rocks. I'm thawing some mysis and mincing it up so even the tiny cherub can get some. Aww, Damn FlowerMama...Sorry to hear this 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Sorry to hear about the wrasse...any chance you can get a refund? Sounds like it was unhealthy to start. 1 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 PM me your address and I'll send you an IV dripset to use for acclimation. I use plastic bins that I get from the Dollar store for acclimation, we probably have 50 bins of different sizes to acclimate new arrivals. This is what one of my shipments looked like, 73 bags. 5 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Sadly, the lubbocks fairy was dead in the tank this am. The water in the bags was very different. 1.017-1.019. I keep mine at 1.026. I added water slowly over 1 hr 15 mins but he was looking stressed in the bag when I got him. He was breathing heavy and moving little. While the Starry who was from the same facility and picked up at the same time is swimming around, laying up against rocks. I'm thawing some mysis and mincing it up so even the tiny cherub can get some. Sorry about your fish Makes sense about the drip then. Fairy and Flasher wrasse's stress easily in my experience but sounds like yours was perhaps not doing well to begin with. My flasher wrasse was the only fish death I had from moving and it literally died from the stress. The small females/juvies seem to fair better. Glad your starry is doing well though!! Those fish are so unique and cool looking. Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 Thanks guys. Here's everyone else really getting along well. 3 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 Found this cute little bivalve on the bottom of the rock with the rose coral. To the left of the rose coral is actually a big bivalve, must be like the other 2 in the back of the tank. I've still never found the big ones mouth, it must be facing down. This one is so small and I love the zig zag. Again, just fun finding out about another hitch hiker almost 5 mos after. 2 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Can you spot the starry blenny? I swear I thought the other day he must've died, I couldn't find him. 1 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 He's camouflaged! I don't see him! 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Yeah, and the colors are turning down in the tank and it all looks the same in the camera. I did have a funny moment a little bit ago. Bowie, the tang, just pecked on the side of the Starry as if were part of the rock landscape, maybe cuz of his stars. Blenny's like what the?? He adjusted his stance. Guess it'll help if I say only his gorgeous blenny eyelashes are visible. Quote Link to comment
gena Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Well the only thing I could see that looked possibly like a starry blenny is behind the kenya tree? I thought I should be looking for an entire body so I didn't even say my guess LOL. 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Well the only thing I could see that looked possibly like a starry blenny is behind the kenya tree? I thought I should be looking for an entire body so I didn't even say my guess LOL. Look at the xenia, the antenna/bunny ears! 1 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Look at the xenia, the antenna/bunny ears!I see them. Would have never guessed it in a million years . 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Sorry to hear about the wrasse, Flower. Mine died in QT several days back as well. They seem awfully sensitive and stress out easily. That blenny is adorable! It's a starry, isn't it? Love it when it dons its camo-colors. 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Sorry to hear about the wrasse, Flower. Mine died in QT several days back as well. They seem awfully sensitive and stress out easily. That blenny is adorable! It's a starry, isn't it? Love it when it dons its camo-colors. Yes, I didn't know wrasse had such a "bag" reputation when bagged. I'm trying a different variety in a few wks, more red/dark pink. My friends are going to a closer wholesaler like 3 hrs away. These last 2 fish came from FL or GA. Hoping for better and StinkyBunny said he'd send me a drip acclimation set. Hopefully this next one deals with it better. And yes love the starry. In general I love how blennies think you can't see them, they're like the CIA or FBI. 1 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Sorry about the wrasse, they ship HORRIBLY. I wait till its cool to move any wrasses, if the water goes up over 82ish degrees, it seems it does them in. The bivalve is a Cock's Comb Oyster. 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 Sorry about the wrasse, they ship HORRIBLY. I wait till its cool to move any wrasses, if the water goes up over 82ish degrees, it seems it does them in. The bivalve is a Cock's Comb Oyster. cool. So it's just like the others I have in there, just tinier scale. They picks up the fish in either FL or GA but in that drive home to NC it got too stressed apparently. Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 They might get some stuff from Carolina Aquatics. I don't know how their pricing is though. 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted September 3, 2016 Author Share Posted September 3, 2016 Yes, I believe that's one place they're going to check out. [/url] 4 Quote Link to comment
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