[christopher annear]

hi i have bought a yellow tang and a woundering if i need a cleaning rass or somthing simolar as a defo ! to stop him getting ill please help !:confused:

[christopher annear]

Now I Have Bought A Wrasse I Have Later Found Out That Its Not Needed And That Wrasses Should Be Left In The Ocean Due To Depleating Numbers So Feel Not To Good About It ,now I Shall Try To Keep Him Alive.

[Krazy]

Feed your yellow tang, green nori algae on a clip for it to graze daily. It'll consume alot so dont be shocked, alot of nori will yield you a healthy fish, I've herd the cleaner wrasse is hard to keep in home fish tanks but its do-able

[nobomb17]

Cleaner will not clean fish in the home aquarium. Due to this fact they will often not eat and starve to death. Buying cleaner wrasses is a mistake. Leave them in the ocean.

[jvharding]

They do clean fish of parasites. Its true they are hard to keep. most probably because they wind up in new aquariums treating desease and they die, because of unstable conditions. these fish are awsome to watch, this is nature healing its own. I'd rather watch them! Than a chemical treatment that fails by it self. Thats my opinion I just bought 2 of them and I hope they do well.

[mtfabel]

nobomb17 is correct that cleaner wrasses are difficult to feed in captivity as they usually only eat parasites off of other fish. This means that you would need a lot of fish for the wrasse to eat off of. It is not realistic to think that you could have enough fish in any typical home aquarium. But to be on the positive side, I have heard stories(just that though, stories) of people keeping them succesfully. That is the exception.

[christopher annear]

yes i agree i should have left him in the shop but hes doing well and also eating flake so we will see. but cant fly on plane and put him back now can I, also yellow tang loves him their always together thanks for the continual help.

[Krazy]

Did you try some Nori for your yellow tang? both my tangs prefer the green nori over the brown or red stuff



PS: you get the tang to eat that nori daily as a grazing snack and watch, that sucker will get a pot belly quick

[christopher annear]

yes i did although hes not all that keen he has one peck at it and then dosnt touch it for the rest of the day he loves flake though any more sugests please let me know thanks mate

[christopher annear]

sorry its the green i am using thanks again

[jvharding]

Just wondering how your wrasse is doing. I had bought 2 just before i posted to your thread I lost one that was very large for a cleaner wrasse. the other one seems to be doing fine and eating frozen brine and variety mix! Still follows my fish around. It seems like some fish swim up to him. So that he can make his inspection. I Have seen my Blonde Naso Tang actually open his gill for him to get in there! I hope he Lives this has been one of the most interesting fish in my tank i have found him lounging in my live rock and actually thought he was dead but to my surprise swam out of there as i was attempting to remove him.

[christopher annear]

yes hes fine he lives in a rock at night i thought my wrasse was dead to because i could not find him . yes the yellow tang and him are unseprable he waits for him to clean him sort of lays on an angle and then the wrasse gives him an inxpection its very cool to watch . my wrasse and tang love the new aqua one marine flakes thier doing very well on these and the price is ace two! thanks ( oh hes also only an inch and a half)

[wendyzim]

My tang eats dried seaweed from Petco and loves it. He's almost fat!

[blind1993]

just a ? what is pot bellied