Scott's Fairy Wrasse

[Sker]

I have a quick question I am thinking about ordering a Scott's Fairy Wrasse from Pet Warehouse. (on sale $48 bucks) Does anyone have experience with ordering livestock from Pet Warehouse? (Good or Bad)
For anyone who has one of these wrasses, how are they doing in your tank?

Thanks,

[Sker]

^^^^^^Anyone????

[Duncan]

Sker,
I have never ordered from pet warehouse, but I have always heard good things about their service. Secondly, that is a really good price for this fish whether it is an Australian or otherwise. Thirdly, i have had these wrasses in my reefs for years seeing that I am a wrasse nut. Their are 2 problems with this fish. 1) they, more than other Cirrhilabrus wrasse are quite good jumpers and usually this is the only reason for their demise. 2)they have a tendency to lose their colors quickly unless they are fed a proper diet. So along with the other myriad of foods that I feed, I have seen great results in keeping the colors of these fish with the use of frozen mysis from Piscine Energetics. A good point to remember when deciding on a wrasse for your reef is the fact that many, if not all Cirrhilabrus family wrasses are perhaps the best suited for a reef, and in my experience, the most hardy. And since there are any number of this family of wrasses, with the most amazing colors or features available on the market, i think you will never be at a lose for choices. Good Luck, and enjoy.

Duncan.

[G]

If they handle their livestock as well as they do their dry-goods, you should be in good hands. Let us know how it turns out if you do plan to order from them.

Gary

[Sker]

Thanks for the responses I think I am going to order one! I will post pictures of the fish and keep you all posted...

[Brad Johnson]

Sker,

Another reason for loss of color I have read is there only being a male in the tank. For this reason, I put a much larger colorful male, and a smaller lesser colored male into my 120. There was actually no fight for dominence. It has only been about 2.5 weeks, but the smaller has already had significant color change to the more purple female coloring. Just a thought if you have the space and it sounds like a good price. I paid $59 a piece at my LFS - abviously no shipping and I got to pick them out. Actually got the 2nd for free, traded un a boat load of Xenia Elongota.

Let me caution you, there must have been a big shipment come into Houston at the time, b/c they were at numerous LFS. There definately is a difference in color from fish to fish, so as always with MO you are at their mercy. Terms they like to use for the really distinct males are "super male" Try to get someone on the phone who knows something about these wrasse's and maybe you'll luck out.

Some Links:
http://www.reeftectonics.com/cirrhilab.htm

Rin posted some pics of his male & female - http://www.reefland.com/cgi-bin/foru...ighlight=fairy

Mine isn't that purple yet, but moving in that direction.

The other big caution on MO is they sleep in mucus coatings, so they tend to die in shipment quite often. Mine were very well adjusted and eating well at the LFS before I pulled the trigger. Didn't skip a beat when I put them in.

[Sker]

O.K. one more question would my sixty gallon reef be big enough for a male and female scott's fairy wrasse. I currently have a 100 lbs of rock, a 3 inch sand bed, 2 percs, a green chromis, one condylactis anemone, 2 leather corals, red mushroom colony, anthellia, a hawaiin feather dusters, about 50 snails, 40 micro hermits. I also have a 20 gallon sump/refugium hooked up to this tank with various macro algae and another 10 lbs of rock. All paramaters are perfect.

[Humilis]

I got my Scott's fairy wrasse (male) from seaquarium = www.cquarium.com for $45 when I was in Toledo about 2-3 weeks ago. They have on their website for $35 and that's a great deal.