New addition to the 40g (Filamented Flasher Wrasse)

[STiTCH87]

Got a gorgeous filamented flasher wrasse a few days ago and finally got a picture of him. =]
I built a nice screen cover for the rimless too that doesn't look too bad i'll take pics of sometime.
He eats everything I feed and eats very well. very active. Always in the open. Loves my clowns and tanaka's wrasse.
He actually has taught my tanaka to be out in the open nearly 24/7 now and they swim everywhere together like a pair and are best of friends.
The royal gramma doesnt pick on him which is great, but now the gramma hides more often which kinda stinks but I still see him off and on.

 

[22engine]

Beautiful fish. Can't wait to get my breeder up. Ended up getting a second AL Sol so will have two over it.

 

[Jarob]

Beautiful! One of my favorite fish!

 

[Yanni]

nice fish, was that the nice fat one that was in gregs speciman tanks?

 

[STiTCH87]

Nope the one Greg has IIRC was a female. He had a Carpenter Wrasse there also. I was planning to get one but just so happened there was one in Fall River I saw the next day.
How you been Mike?

I got a yasha / m pistol / f pistol pair from Greg's last week tho for the pico.

And nice Engine22 on the 2 AI's. That'll look nice.

 

[ReefGeek79]

Nice fish! I got a carpenter's from Underwater World a month or so ago and when I went to put him in the tank, using a fine mesh net, his mouth somehow got caught in the net. Took me a solid 3-4 minutes to free him. Once I did he just sunk into the reef. I thought he was done but about 4 hours later I saw him swimming around. He seemed good. He hid a lot but came out to eat and I'd see him moving around in the reef. But for some reason he only lasted a week. Saw the crab's on him. I don't really know what happened. He seemed fine after the initial incident and was eating. My clowns never paid any attention to him and the only other fish I have are a small watchman and a mandarin. They're beautiful fish and I'd love to get another one but I'm rather apprehensive now.

 

[STiTCH87]

Actually the first day I added the flasher wrasse that very night the two clowns, tanaka's wrasse, flasher wrasse, and royal gramma were all in the same corner of the tank together weaving in and out of each other bobbing around playing. It was an amazing sight never seen anything like it as far as friendliness with such diversity.

The flasher never hides anymore and now ever my Tanaka's is out in the open 90% of the time all over everywhere checking everything out. The flasher eats from my hand with the clowns. The gramma catches what falls into the water column.

And the Tanaka's, well, I see him everyday, and not once have I ever seen him eat during a feeding. All he does is pick rocks all day. But i've had him for a month now and he's still alive and fat so he must be eating something.

I'd deff recommend you go for a flasher sometime. He's deff one of my fave fish in the 40g. Though theyre all my faves cuz theyre all unique/uncommon with the except of the royal gramma which you do see time to time at most LFS.

Snapped a shot of my new Yasha Hase in the pico tank tonight also:

 

[Yanni]

i been good bro, same ol stuff. I gotta come check out the tank sometime, nice goby.

 

[STiTCH87]

Well the 40g sucks because its always completely covered in bushy brown algae all over the rocks and diatoms on the sand bed for 7 months now, lol. But the pico looks great!

 

[Yanni]

why? we gotta take care of that s@@t!!

 

[STiTCH87]

Dunno. It's been driving me up a F***IN' wall lol. I have a dual media reactor running GFO and GAC and have a skimmer rated @ atleast 75 gallons that works great and have a filter sock at the drain to the sump. I clean the sock, the sump, the tank, the sand, and the rock weekly with my 20% waterchange.

I'm actually going to make a whole new thread on this issue in Reef Talk now.

 

[delta]

Well the 40g sucks because its always completely covered in bushy brown algae all over the rocks and diatoms on the sand bed for 7 months now, lol. But the pico looks great!

Is it leafy? If so it could be Dictyota which is a macro algae and your standard nuisance algae treatments will have any effect on it.

Looks like this
http://university.uog.edu/botany/474/hetero/dictyopt-vs-dictyota.htm

 

[STiTCH87]

Not leafy more so fluffy and bushy and stringy. Not hair algae though. I'll have to try and snap a HQ shot tonight of it.
It's def not macro though.

Sand bed is similar to this, thus thinking diatoms but not 100% sure:
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/photos_members/data/500/diatoms03.jpg

Sometimes with bubbles sometimes without. Sometimes in mats like slime algae, sometimes spread evenly and thinly throughout areas like diatoms would.
Brown in color. Greenish with tank lights off.

Rocks look similar to this:
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/photos/fish/reef/reef14.jpg

But less bubbles. IDK i'll have to take a bunch of actual photos tonight.