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View Poll Results: How long?
died within 0-3 months 1 9.09%
died within 4-6 months 0 0%
died within 7-9 months 0 0%
died within 10-12 months 0 0%
died within 13-18 months 0 0%
died within 19-24 months 0 0%
died within 2-3 years 0 0%
died within 3-4 years 0 0%
died after 5 years + 0 0%
currently alive 0-6 months 0 0%
currently alive 7-12 months 2 18.18%
currently alive over 1 year 0 0%
currently alive over 2 years 0 0%
currently alive over 3 years 1 9.09%
currently alive over 4 years 0 0%
currently alive 5 years + 0 0%
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Old 09-26-2007, 11:14 PM
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Default Wrasse - Blue Side Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura

Please provide your experience in this poll:
  • Use the top 9 poll questions if your fish has passed away.
  • Use the bottom 7 poll questions if you currently own this fish.
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died within 0-3 months
died within 4-6 months
died within 7-9 months
died within 10-12 months
died within 13-18 months
died within 19-24 months
died within 2-3 years
died within 3-4 years
died after 5 years +
currently alive 0-6 months
currently alive 7-12 months
currently alive over 1 year
currently alive over 2 years
currently alive over 3 years
currently alive over 4 years
currently alive 5 years +
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Old 03-09-2008, 07:43 AM
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I really like this fish. Had some problems with my sixline wrasse but I expected this and just moved the sixline to one of my other tanks.
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I had a pair of these guys. Lost both of them one night when the tank canopy was accidentally left open overnight. Both jumped out that night.

Of the 3 or 4 fairy wrasse species I've kept, these were the most prone to jumping. They were constantly jumping into the overflow (and constantly jumping out of the overflow back into the main tank). My advice for anyone considering these or other fairy wrasse species, be sure to have a cover on your tank. If nothing else, eggcrate covering the tank that can be moved or opened for feeding and maintenance. Otherwise, it's not a question of "if" it will jump out, it's a question of "when".
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I have heard that if well fed they won't jump. Might be true, may not be true. I'm not going to test this as it isn't worth it.
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Total bunk in my opinion, sorry. My fish are particularly well fed anyhow, but more to the point, it's more a function of their behaviour. If startled, they do a really high energy burst / quick dash to escape predators and whatnot. In the ocean this would just take them ... somewhere else on the reef a few feet away. In our tanks, there's nowhere else to go but out of the tank.
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That is only if they are feeding near the surface, if they don't they would dart into the rock. In an aquarium food comes in near the surface, fish know this. There is an article on this behavior difference in a Coral magazine.
Still it may not be true.
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Do you know what month? I'll look for the article.

For now I'm going to stand by my opinion that the amount feeding has nothing to do with them jumping. Sorry if it feels like I'm splitting hairs, thing is, I just don't feel that the solution for prevention of jumping is "feed them more." They dart as a means to get away when startled, in an aquarium there's nowhere to dart, so they end up breaching the surface. Although .. I guess it could be that they are at worse risk for jumping if not fed enough, because they're hungrier, but I promise even if well fed there is a strong risk for jumping. The mitigation strategy should be to make sure they can't land outside water "when" they jump (ie, a well covered tank).
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Old 04-10-2008, 06:11 AM
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it is either the one concernig the breeding of coral in captivity or deep sand beds. Doesn't help much but that is all I can remember about the mag.
They can't jump out in my tank though since the hood won't allow them to.
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Lost mine last night to jumping. Had him nearly 2 years.
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Sorry to hear that man. I had a pair for a while and one day when I was on vacation the tanksitter forgot to close the canopy lid one night after feeding. Both of them jumped out that night, he came back in the morning to find the both of them on the floor. I swear bluesides are the worst - 100% of the ones I've known so far (mine and any friends who've had them) all met their end to jumping.
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