Cleaner wrasse cleaned us out!

[Kristy]

GONE - Anyone want a free cleaner wrasse? :)

He is very healthy and hardy, eats great, particularly good at cleaning the polyps off our LPS ans SPS corals. He is a yellow-tailed cleaner wrasse that we added to the tank just before I left town for six weeks on a business trip. Mike is not as into the corals as I am and failed to notice that seven different SPS and LPS corals were dying from the nibbles and bites of this little beast.

Thank GOD for the bottle trap!

He would be great if you had a FOWLR or never intend to have anything more than zoas and mushrooms in your tank (or if you really hate your beautfiul SPS and LPS corals and would like to see them slowly punished). Really mostly kidding with this offer, as I would not expect anyone to take us up on it, but if you are crazy enough to send a pm with your interest before I can get it to the fish store, then you can have it!

Otherwise, for those of you wise ones who have been through this before, any chance our corals will recover (brain, favia, acans, two monti caps, etc.)? Anything we can do to encourage their recovery?

[mikedelgado]

how does the bottle trap work?

[Kristy]

Well, there are a couple of different versions. Before getting serious in my attempt at catching this guy, I re-read this thread that gives a lot of great ideas:

http://www.maast.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46075&highlight=catch

Basically, all I did was tie some fishing line around the outside of the mouth of a wide-mouth Aquafina water bottle (with no label on so it's totally clear) than throw a frozen cube of mysis in the bottle soaked in a little garlic to make it more irresistible. I submerged the bottle on the bottom of the tank so that the food was at the end of the bottle and watched and waited. The string of fishing line was long enough to come out of the tank and hold while sitting nearby. Eventually I had to leave for a little while and when I returned, the fish I wanted was actually in the bottle eating the mysis! I just yanked on the string, righting the bottle, and pulled him right out. Worked beautifully!

[millerdog]

If you still have him id be intested have a FOWLR that would love to have one. What size is he?

[Kristy]

1.5 inches and fat... pm us with your phone asap or he will be going to the store in half an hour.

[FossilReef]

Oh ho! I feel your pain. I had one of those for a while, then found out that as adults they're almost complete corallivores. bad part is that it was in a display tank at the LFS I used to work at and it took a lot of effort to catch a 3" fish in a 10-foot tank :P

[Kristy]

Gone to a new FOWLR home.