cleaner wrasse

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It's probably starved and really stressed . They live in small colonies in the wild and really suffer greatly when taken into captivity! This is one species that I would never buy. You'd be so much better off with cleaner shrimp. They don't need nearly as wide a diet. They adjust better to captivity etc.
I wish you luck and would try to feed it either live mysis or live copepods to encourage it to perk up a touch,
 
I had good luck with copepods, mysis, and bloodworms. Mine was doing great when it died of parasitic infection.
 
Agreed. I would like to learn a good way to keep one, I am not sure if it is possible. I haven't tried since.
 
I really don't think that there is a good way man. The only way I see it even being slightly possible would be to take a large portion of a colony and transfer them all to a large set up . I just think that they do much better on the reef than they would do in anything but, a large public aquarium. They have a very slow reproductive rate and I think that people should either use neon gobies or plain old cleaner shrimp. I have seen a few success stories in my years of trawling the net but, the failures out weigh it by far more than a 10 to 1.
 
Max;1122692; said:
I really don't think that there is a good way man. The only way I see it even being slightly possible would be to take a large portion of a colony and transfer them all to a large set up . I just think that they do much better on the reef than they would do in anything but, a large public aquarium. They have a very slow reproductive rate and I think that people should either use neon gobies or plain old cleaner shrimp. I have seen a few success stories in my years of trawling the net but, the failures out weigh it by far more than a 10 to 1.
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I agree with you, which is why I haven't tried again.
 
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