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Posted: June 18 2013 at 2:53am |
So I got my sweetlips as a baby he looked like this. Now about a year later he is starting to lose his spots and they are turning into stripes. Anyone know what age, size they totally change?
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 6:06am |
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Beautiful fish. I think it will outgrow the tank before it gets its stripes.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 6:44am |
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I dig the sweetlips. Way cool fish.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 7:53am |
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Aren't they a difficult fish to keep? I've always loved this fish!!
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 7:02pm |
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He has been a bit on the difficult side First 9 months 2 times a day feeding mysis and other frozen and fresh foods but now he is taking pellets so life is so much easier. Thanks for the love all, he is definitely one of my fav's.
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Posted: June 19 2013 at 10:52pm |
Guess that last photo was about a month old, I didn't think that long even though, was looking at him today and thought to my self "he don't look like the photo I uploaded" really does seem to be growing fast now though.
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Posted: June 20 2013 at 6:19am |
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You can see a big improvement in his stripes between the two photos too!
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Posted: November 24 2013 at 5:00pm |
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Awesome pictures. Came across this thread and joined this site to ask for updates. It will be great to see it's progress.
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Posted: November 24 2013 at 6:35pm |
Thanks for the inquiry usually I would say sorry that fish is dead, but in this case some good news!! He isn't. He is becoming a dominant part of my tank but is still just awesome! I took a few quick shots before I left for work.
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Posted: November 24 2013 at 6:41pm |
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awesome looking fish
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Posted: November 24 2013 at 6:41pm |
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Thanks for the quick response, he look great. How much has he grown since the first picture? You are doing a great job with him.
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Posted: November 24 2013 at 6:50pm |
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In the first pic he was maybe 2-3 inches, now he is like 7-8.
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Posted: November 24 2013 at 7:25pm |
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Very cool and I'm glad to see he has his stripes now!
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Posted: November 25 2013 at 1:54am |
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Nice!
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Posted: February 23 2014 at 1:44pm |
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How about another update. I was going to buy one today but the circles were already starting to become lines. So I passed.
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Posted: February 25 2014 at 7:02pm |
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They are pretty hard to raise when real young from what I experienced, but I will take a couple pics and post tomorrow for ya. Thanks!
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Posted: February 26 2014 at 2:52pm |
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That's what I have been reading, but you have to try to do it.
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Posted: February 27 2014 at 1:48pm |
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Posted: February 27 2014 at 2:14pm |
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That is an awesome looking fish
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Posted: February 27 2014 at 2:28pm |
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What's cool about him is he is always out front never hiding like the others.. Thank you for the kind comment..for some reason my yellow coris wrasse has spinalbiffida or something..always kinked like that
Edited by ReefKeeper78 - February 27 2014 at 2:30pm
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