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So I have my 75G reef-ISH tank (coral frags, good lighting, but no inverts at all...keep that in mind) and I for some reason bought an argus grouper to put in it about a month ago. It was only about 4 inches or so big, so I thought it would be ok with fish about his size. oh, and the grouepr is no longer in the aquarium btw, I got him out of there yesterday... but anywayz... I added him to the tank, then 2 days later one of the employees at one of the LFS's I frequent who knows I come in there twice a week asking if they got any red coris wrasses in (cause i want one more than any other fish) tells me that he has one (a juvinile about 3 inches) in his tank and home and needs to get rid of it. So I got it from him, took it home and added it to the tank. It immediately buried in the sand. The next day, he's out swimming, and I see the grouper try to nail him! So I'm like "great...hes gonna get killed" but I had to go to school. So I got home from school...no coris wrasse. I figured maybe he'de burrowed under the sand...but i didn't see him for 2 more days, and i guessed the grouper ate him. This was a MONTH AGO. 4 WEEKS!!!
Here's where it gets complicated.....
Today I was at the same LFS and the same guy was working, i told him that about a month ago the wrasse he gave me got eaten....he says "aww man that sucks...well we got some more coris's in if you want one I'll sell you one for like 15 bucks since you've already lost one." Naturally I buy it. (remember the grouper is no longer in the tank, so no worries about this one getting eaten). I bought it and came home. I opened the front door....look at my tank.....and there's my ORIGINAL red coris wrasse swimming around.
You've GOT to be kidding me.
Its been a MONTH since I've seen it. I've taken out every rock, re-distributed the sand, rearranged all the rockwork, and seen my tank about 5 hours a day, at all times of the day and night, lights on and lights off. I have no choice but to assume that my coris wrasse has been buried under the sand, not eating for a month. That's the ONLY possibility. So Here I am with my brand new red coris juvi. that until 5 seconds ago I was so greatfull to have. So here's the delimma...you tell me how much I messed up. It won't un-do things...but whatever.
I've read everything from "coris cant be kept with ANY other wrasse, they'll fight to the death" to "juviniles can be kept safetely together but MAY show aggresion as they grow into adulthood". So of course I took my chances. I added the newcoming to the tank. I probably shouldnt have, but I did. Hell, I had a coral beauty and a flame angel get along perfectly fine in a 40G....why not have 2 coris babies get along in a tank twice that size? At first they kinda flared their fins at each other, but no physical contact was made, no sudden jerks or anything....and after about 5 minutes they each kinda swam their own direction and eventually went into the sand to sleep for the night.
So who thinks I'm going to have a kick-ass tank with not just one but TWO incredibly beautiful red coris wrasses in it, and who thinks I've just condemmed both fish to certain death, stressing out the other fish in the tank as well as each other, giving me an uncurable ich outbreak leading to the death of everything?
discuss.
Here's where it gets complicated.....
Today I was at the same LFS and the same guy was working, i told him that about a month ago the wrasse he gave me got eaten....he says "aww man that sucks...well we got some more coris's in if you want one I'll sell you one for like 15 bucks since you've already lost one." Naturally I buy it. (remember the grouper is no longer in the tank, so no worries about this one getting eaten). I bought it and came home. I opened the front door....look at my tank.....and there's my ORIGINAL red coris wrasse swimming around.
You've GOT to be kidding me.
Its been a MONTH since I've seen it. I've taken out every rock, re-distributed the sand, rearranged all the rockwork, and seen my tank about 5 hours a day, at all times of the day and night, lights on and lights off. I have no choice but to assume that my coris wrasse has been buried under the sand, not eating for a month. That's the ONLY possibility. So Here I am with my brand new red coris juvi. that until 5 seconds ago I was so greatfull to have. So here's the delimma...you tell me how much I messed up. It won't un-do things...but whatever.
I've read everything from "coris cant be kept with ANY other wrasse, they'll fight to the death" to "juviniles can be kept safetely together but MAY show aggresion as they grow into adulthood". So of course I took my chances. I added the newcoming to the tank. I probably shouldnt have, but I did. Hell, I had a coral beauty and a flame angel get along perfectly fine in a 40G....why not have 2 coris babies get along in a tank twice that size? At first they kinda flared their fins at each other, but no physical contact was made, no sudden jerks or anything....and after about 5 minutes they each kinda swam their own direction and eventually went into the sand to sleep for the night.
So who thinks I'm going to have a kick-ass tank with not just one but TWO incredibly beautiful red coris wrasses in it, and who thinks I've just condemmed both fish to certain death, stressing out the other fish in the tank as well as each other, giving me an uncurable ich outbreak leading to the death of everything?
discuss.
