Trouble with cleaner wrasse

Jesshika

Jesshika

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I've had a cleaner wrasse before who had no problem eating anything I put in the tank, but the one I have now will hardly eat anything. I've tried garlic soaked flakes, mysis shrimp and brine shrimp and he will go after it and try to eat some but then ends up spitting the food back up or won't even try to eat any. What else can I do with him?
 
Take him back to the lfs? I guess that can be the problem with cleaner wrases, you really can't repoduce their natural feeding patterns in a home tank.

Also, you mentiond you had a cleaner wrasse before that was eating no problem.. what happened to him?
 
Unfortunately this is why Cleaner Wrasses are best left in the Ocean. In the Ocean they cover 1/4 of a square mile per fish and work on the fish within that area, clearly a tank has no where near that capacity and 90 percent of cleaner wrasses won't eat in captivity. Even the ones that do, 99 percent of those die within 6 months for no reason. In tanks they can cause more harm than good by their constant desire to clean the fish, it can cause more stress to the fish than help them. Is definitely a fish best left in the ocean!
 
jabberjaw said:
Take him back to the lfs? I guess that can be the problem with cleaner wrases, you really can't repoduce their natural feeding patterns in a home tank.

Also, you mentiond you had a cleaner wrasse before that was eating no problem.. what happened to him?
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My other one I had for almost a year until he jumped out one day :/ So I guess I got lucky with the last one. I will try to return this one back to the LFS.
 
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