I picked up a Mystery Wrasse from a member here and he is in my TANK!
He is about 1-1.5 inches and beautiful. I note the following.
He could care less about our peppermint shrimp that are 2x his size (and down the line if they stop growing and he takes them out I guess I knew the risks)
However, he is displaying a very, very strong tendency/desire/hope to assassinate my Nassarius Vibex snails. He has all ready made 2-3 serious plucks at their siphon although thus far the snails have simply retreated and waited a bit only to move along doing their business. Thus far he has not noted the dwarf cerith, florida cerith, or Nerite snails (which are a LOT bigger).
So far he is not interested in mysis or a frozen reef blend but its only been 2 hours and he is a very healthy looking fish so I am not concerned. Anyone else have one of these decimate a clean up crew? He seems interested in the hermits as well, but after one gave him a charge he decided to pick on less pointy objects! (pretty funny, mystery wrasse approaches hermit gets in his face only to get a pincher for his efforts and retreats hastily).
Anyhow, I think he stays regardless and I will just buy more of whatever he does not eat as I have entirely too many snails in the tank now anyhow. Just curious if others have seen this type of feeding behavior, its hardly unusual for a wrasse (I know one Coris wrasse at a LFS with a SERIOUS hermit addiction).
Anyhow, our intention was to catch the McCoster's Wrasse and return him to the store since he was a pretty boring fish, so we got the Mystery with this idea. The funny thing is, now the McCoster's Wrasse is getting all showy displaying his dorsal fin, flashing and getting super bright colors! Now my wife wants BOTH!!@!
Do you think (I DO) that were overstocked?
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I run a skimmer, a big Cheato ball on a reverse light cycle, and do 20% H20 changes weekly with no plans to lengthen this (its like 30 minutes of work and its fun anyhow). The tank has a HUGE amount of rock for a 29 gallon, probably 40 lbs. We have a bunch of corals that are taking off, our birds nest has 20 new tips on it, the Torch is splitting, the Zoas are growing like crazy, and the leather just went through long phase of being closed a ton, only to show 2x the number of polyps suddenly (the new ones are still very small and kinda white), so things seem to be doing really well. I feel like at their current sizes were good, but how long do you think we have???? Or are we going to be ok long term with a good maintenance schedule.
I know that I can easily export a fish if I need to but don't want to risk a tank crash by pushing the envelope. With this much rock and skimmer with refugium are we ok?
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