The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[SaltwaterScoop]

My red planaria army

Melanarus Wrasse

Lemon Wrasse

 

[Crabby48]

His colors look better than last week! He would look great in the 220

 

[OrchidMiss]

Lemmy is so handsome!

 

[OrchidMiss]

 

[moreef]

There are 86 species of tang across 6 genera. All are roughly the same shape, all are fairly large, fairly aggressive, and with one exception (achilles) are colorful but not crazy colorful.

There are over 600 species of wrasse with 81 genera. There are peaceful and aggressive wrasse, big and small, long wrasse and flat wrasse, bland wrasse and super colorful wrasse. However the best thing about them is they generally get along unlike any other type of fish. I easily keep 10+ in a medium tank.

I would love to get several for my IM50g. I know I want a yellow coris but not sure what other small peaceful one to get. Do you suggest adding them all at once? I only have 1
small vanderbuilt chromi in the tank and some snails/blue legged hermits.

 

[Crabby48]

We do pick good looking fish

 

[R-balljunkie]

Collecting Johnsoni wrasses, North Kwajalein Atoll just inside the lagoon, only practical to access during a certain tide. You can see the break in the waves separating the lagoon from ocean side.

Some balteatus and rhomboidalis mixed in.

 

[Slocke]

I took a ton of alright pictures but I’m too busy to edit today. Anyways here they are

 

[AZReef13]

Collecting Johnsoni wrasses, North Kwajalein Atoll just inside the lagoon, only practical to access during a certain tide. You can see the break in the waves separating the lagoon from ocean side.

Some balteatus and rhomboidalis mixed in.

I used live out there, Tracking safelights. My work schedule limited time for looking for fish. Pretty cool to actually come across some one From Kwajalein, Very nice collection of Wrasses

 

[Tcook]

Is it a P. flavianalis?

Shutmani!

 

[R-balljunkie]

I used live out there, Tracking safelights. My work schedule limited time for looking for fish. Pretty cool to actually come across some one From Kwajalein, Very nice collection of Wrasses

A unique place in the world, very few people ever step foot on this postage stamp in the ocean....5 years.

 

[Tcook]

Hehe. Shipped late or you got them?

Holding till Monday or Tuesday to ship with the muff.

 

[Slocke]

I would love to get several for my IM50g. I know I want a yellow coris but not sure what other small peaceful one to get. Do you suggest adding them all at once? I only have 1
small vanderbuilt chromi in the tank and some snails/blue legged hermits.

Wrasse are generally pretty good. I always suggest an acclimation box even if I don’t always do it myself. Possum wrasse, pink streaked, maybe a leopard wrasse. I’m not sure how many fish would work in a 50.

 

[Crabby48]

Holding till Monday or Tuesday to ship with the muff.

Who is getting the trispilus you or me? One of us need all three

 

[AZReef13]

A unique place in the world, very few people ever step foot on this postage stamp in the ocean....5 years.

Yes Five wow, I was there for about 18months. Wished I stayed but they planning on moving my Job to Huntsville AL, Very Cool place

 

[Tcook]

Wow!

 

[Tcook]

Who is getting the trispilus you or me? One of us need all three

Hmmm. How would they hang with a babi and muff?

 

[Crabby48]

Hmmm. How would they hang with a babi and muff?

If Babi and miff does ok then adding one more should work. I thought about getting all three when I got the other two. Didn’t want too much pink. At the time o was still thinking a trio of viviens.

 

[Crabby48]

Little storm trooper

 

[i cant think]

How’s this of my Flavidorsalis? I need more photos… Maybe Monday will be a day of watching the wrasses and getting photos.

Hopefully if I get the upgrade to 5’ I’ll have a few more wrasses on the list. Roseafascia is by far a dream but maybe with my now more boisterous wrasses it could work. Then again, no wrasses are popping out at me at the LFS (albeit they don’t have many wrasses at all). My wrasse gang has been down a bit as I’m still waiting on a choats to emergent. However the Chiseltooth is growing on me and I have my own SPS system so it’s a possibly.