6 Line Wrasse

[AlwaysImproving]

I just purchased a 6 line and as soon as a I put him in my 55 gallon tank he went into hiding...but only for about 15 minutes. The only other fish in my tank is a percula clown and coral beauty and the beauty was chasing him around for about an hour. But the next day I noticed they were cruising around together. I'm happy they get along and Im just surprised they accepted him so quick, isn't that abnormal?

I feed my clown and coral frozen mixture of those cubes but I did notice that the wrasse wasn't eating at all. Maybe he needs to get used to the new food because at the fish store they were feeding him something different?

I'm gonna get nice pics and post the 2 hanging out asap!

 

[yote]

Congratulations
That fairly normal for them to act that way.

 

[AdeptMrSniffles]

Do you have top for your tank? If not, be careful. My 6 line went carpet surfing and killed himself. Congrats on your new Addition though. I enjoyed mine while I had him. He seemed to hangout in the LR a lot so I thnk that's a common thing for them.

 

[dcantucson]

Mine ate copods and would hide in the rocks. Then jumped out of the tank!

 

[SSalty]

I wish my Six-line would jump out, he is a bastard.

 

[AlwaysImproving]

I dont have a top and don't plan on getting one so I guess the best I can do is cross my fingers and hope!

 

[Gdbyrd]

I wish my Six-line would jump out, he is a bastard.

I lol'd.

 

[Rcpilot]

I wish my Six-line would jump out, he is a bastard.

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Sold mine!! Little SOB never jumped out, so I caught him and sold him. :mrgreen:

 

[fishsticks]

I wish my Six-line would jump out, he is a bastard.

lolol

 

[SSalty]

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Sold mine!! Little SOB never jumped out, so I caught him and sold him. :mrgreen:

I wish I could catch mine. He is quick.

 

[Rcpilot]

I wish I could catch mine. He is quick.

Trying to net a 6-line is never going to be a successful operation.

I caught mine in a 1qt Gatorade bottle. I put food in the bottle and waited. No other food in the tank. If he wanted to eat, he had to swim in the bottle. It took him several hours to get up the nerve to swim inside the bottle. He knew something wasn't normal. I did catch him finally. Slapped the lid on after he swam inside and yelled, "SUCKER!!!!!!" :mrgreen:

Sold him for $20 to a girl with a 135g fish only tank. She sent a couple pics a few weeks later. He was doing fine.

 

[dcantucson]

:lol: We're going to have to start a Hater's club for 6-Lines, it looks like!!! :lol:

 

[sen5241b]

Mine appeared perfeclty healthy and then last MOnday he just vanished. He wasn't on the floor.

 

[tankedchemist]

sen...do you have cats? Just wondering. :)

 

[Piggy]

My six line finally settled down. He gets along with all my fish now. Congrats on the new addition.

 

[AlwaysImproving]

Mine appeared perfeclty healthy and then last MOnday he just vanished. He wasn't on the floor.

This happened to me. He's not in the tank and I looked everywhere around the tank, wtf could have happened?

 

[yote]

6 lines will find themselves a hole in a rock to hide to when stressed. So its possible that its got itself up into a piece of live rock and expired.In which case,the bristle worms will take care of it pretty quick.

 

[KidJ57]

My blue headed wrasse burried himself in the sand today to wear I couldn't even see him except for one little sliver :shock:...it's scaring the :pooh: out of me because I actually like the guy (most entertaining thing in my tank next to my crab) he hasn't been looking good lately and I think this might be the end :grumble:. I actually reached down and pulled him out of the sand earlier while I had his favorite food in the tank and he came out to eat, swam a little bit then went to rest in his favorite hole in my LR. An hour later and it looks like he is back in the sand :frustrat:. Fingers crossed.

 

[yote]

Thats a wrasse for ya.