New local purchase of fishies

[Doug]

Stopped in at the local lfs for supplies. . Bad mistake. They had a baby yellow coris in and several smaller bangaii cardinals.

So I bought the wrasse and the bangaii. All doing fine in my 20g. Big momma and poppa keeping an eye on them. I was floating the wrasse in a bowl for transfer to my holding tank, added some water and she jumped into the 20g.. OH well. Hope all is ok.

My 3 striped chromis are in the holding tank but only see two of them out swimming.

Anyways, getting the collection started for the new tank..

[intarsiabox]

I just got my yellow coris wrasse last week-end. Really nice fish who is very active and stayed out in the open from day one. (even when my 6 year old daughter comes running up to the tank waving her hands all over the place)

[Doug]

Yes, actually very nice looking for just yellow and active, like you said. I spent hrs. watching it the first evening, looking for sand. Trying to bury on my blue glass bottom.

I have a couple tupperware containers of sand in there for it but was scared of them. Kept swimming by and looking, then would try everywhere on the glass again.

Finally hovered over one for a long time eyeing it up. Even went down and layed on it for a sec......Then finally snuck up and gone into the sand. What a laugh.

[intarsiabox]

I guess I'm just mean to my fish. I have a black bare bottom tank but didn't put any dishes of sand in for the wrasse. He found a nice hidey hole in the rock work that he disappears into every night. I'm still debating the BB as I like the look of sand but end up getting cyno here and there. I have had a couple of BB tanks before and never had any cyno or algae related issues at all, besides after 5 weeks my BB already has a slight dusting of white sand from the rocks anyway.

[Doug]

Yup, totally agree with that. If this is my only wrasse, my new tank will be bare with his container in there for him somewhere. If I add a leopard, then I will add sand.