Wrasse

[marrone]

 

[reefiness]

Yes, thats a wrasse.

 

[reefiness]

whoops, sorry. didnt realize the context. POTW. Nice picture!

 

[marrone]

NP. It's a Wrasse, but which one?

 

[reefiness]

Red tailed gem wrasse?

 

[reefiness]

Turns out its a red tailed tarmarin wrasse. Definitely a more affordable gem tang look than an actual gem tang.

 

[marrone]

Yes, and actually I think they look better than a Gem tang, the only problem is they're some what hard to keep.

 

[ourcoralreef]

they're some what hard to keep.

Im guessing similar to leopard wrasses

 

[HARRYMANIA]

yes next to impossible to keep alive . should be left on the reef but what do your wonderful brick and mortar stores care ??? it's all about the doe re me

 

[marrone]

Im guessing similar to leopard wrasses

A lot harder to keep than leopard wrasses. I think a lot of the people have had fairly good successful nowadays keeping various different leopard wrasse alive but the red tailed tarmarin wrasse are very hard to keep alive long term.

 

[ourcoralreef]

A lot harder to keep than leopard wrasses. I think a lot of the people have had fairly good successful nowadays keeping various different leopard wrasse alive but the red tailed tarmarin wrasse are very hard to keep alive long term.

Why their diet
Or something else

 

[marrone]

It's very hard to get them to starting eating, and even then it's not usually good enough to keep them alive. There are some very good foods out there nowadays but even then the overall survival rate isn't good.

 

[ourcoralreef]

Very interesting
If you have pods in a system and no other fish reef going for them then theoretically it should buy you time until you get it fed properly

 

[jackson6745]

I tried 3 times, even feeding live pods, brine, and black worms. I haven't had one eat enough to survive. The best I had was eating an occasional brine shrimp, and mouthing + spitting out small food particles. I give up on them, better suited for the wild I guess. Mike C had some success with one I recall. Hopefully he chimes in.

 

[ourcoralreef]

If only divers den sold them :biggrin:

 

[prattreef]

I've had success with other Anampses species like the yellow tail and lined, but the red tails very rarely do well and the gorgeous males almost never.

 

[Mattl22]

The male red tale is amazing looking and one I hope there's more success with in the future there was a time when most leopard wrasses had very poor survival rate so hopefully we see better success with the red tails!
I bought a tiny yellow tail tamrin 3 yrs ago still have it gotten pretty big beautiful fish sometimes it's snout turns bright pink anyone know why? Will get a picture of it it's a beauty


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[ourcoralreef]

Is it possible its the way they are catching them where to they catch them from

 

[marrone]

I don't think it has anything to do with where and how they're catching them, it's just more along the line that the food requirements haven't been meet to keep this fish alive. I think someone needs to invest time and figure out what they're eating in the wild, then at that point come up with something that is suitable to what they eat and need to survive. This is probably not going to happen and basically someone is going to need to try a bunch of different foods and hopefully some thing, or combination of things, will work.

 

[ourcoralreef]

A note mastik is a great food to get finicky eaters to start eating you start off with mastik then you mix some regular fish food with it