Red Sea / 4 Lined Cleaner Wrasse

Discussion in 'Tropical Fish' started by fazool666, Aug 14, 2008.

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  1. fazool666

    fazool666 Sea Dragon

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  3. omard

    omard Gnarly Old Codfish

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    Would not risk it.

    Cleaner wrasses do not generally do well in a Reef Tank.

    Food source quickly disappears and they starve...:-[
     
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    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Don't get one. As omard said they will starve. Often times accepting prepared foods and giving the illusion of "a healthy eating fish". That's not the case at all. It will starve and die.
     
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    I kind of figured so making the mistake with a blue streak cleaner in the past but was just curious if it was different than the other and if anyone had on before.

    Thanks!!
     
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    UPDATE: Well after posting this a few months ago I was at my LFS and the cleaner was still there so I asked the dude there if he could feed it for me to see if it ate prepared foods and to my surprise it did. Well even though I was still skeptical (had seen a blue streak eat prepared foods before as well and then one day just die due from malnutrition) I decided to bring the fish home. Well its been a little over 3 months and he seems to be doing great. The fish eats prepared foods like mysys, copepods, and brine AND does the cleaning job (although not as thorough) of a blue streak. Now I'm not saying if you see this fish go out and buy it because it is still too see what will happen but as of now everything is good :) - Will update more in the future!
     
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    Thanks for the update, hope you have success with this fish.
     
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    Me Too - my luck, I post this and within the next few days the little dude stops eating or something like that :eek: