I’m curious about what others have experienced with aggressive Silver Belly / Yellow Coris wrasses. I had two that I think transitioned to full males — Both developed the large green/red splash of color along the profile of their gills and face; I only have one now because the more aggressive one decided to kill the other. I attempted relentlessly to catch either the aggressive one or the one getting beat up but I was unsuccessful; and this all happened about five weeks ago. Since then I lost a sand sifting goby from old age.
Fast forward to this weekend...
On Sunday I introduced a sand-sifting diamond goby who just got out of quarantine to my display. I decided on getting a smaller juvenile Goby so I can be sure to get a good 5-6 years out of him/her. Unfortunately, my once healthy goby, had a pieces of fins missing and was at the surface of my display trying to jump out. That’s when I noticed the silver belly corris was nipping and thrusting at the goby. I pulled the goby from the display and put it into my Mandarin tank.
This silver belly wrasse has shown to be very aggressive. He doesn’t bother any fish or coral but he proactively goes after my margarita snails by hitting them off the glass and flipping them over when they are on the sand bed. The only other wrasse in the tank is a peaceful leopard wrasse.
Anyone know if this particular breed of Hoelichoeres is typically this aggressive? He’s not starving or showing signs of malnutrition —- I was pondering whether I wasn’t feeding him enough, but he is very healthy in appearance and color and there is no finnage issues.
For visual verification of the species he looks exactly like this photo on
@LiveAquaria https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/2113/?pcatid=2113
Although, they labeled this as a Yellow / Purple Wrasse.
Thank you for the responses. Happy reefing.
