The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

benzc01 · Feb 19, 2015

my leopard wrasse trio

renato120 · Feb 20, 2015

Beautiful wrasses! Nice thread!

AJQ69 · Feb 20, 2015

benzc01 said:
my leopard wrasse trio

Very nice trio :bigsmile:

joshporksandwich · Feb 25, 2015

ok forget the zoas!!! I'm a wrasse addict!!!!

20150212-DSC_0221 by joshporksandwich, on Flickr

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N1Husker · Feb 25, 2015

joshporksandwic said:
ok forget the zoas!!! I'm a wrasse addict!!!!
20150212-DSC_0221 by joshporksandwich, on Flickr
20150211-DSC_0187 by joshporksandwich, on Flickr
20150212-DSC_0193 by joshporksandwich, on Flickr
20150212-DSC_0259 by joshporksandwich, on Flickr
20150212-DSC_0263 by joshporksandwich, on Flickr

Very nice. Yeah, I am an addict also, although I only have two, a red haed salon fairy wrasse and a Hoevens Melanurus Wrasse, and my tank is at its limit, maybe a little beyond. The Melanurus is a good boy but the red head salon fairy wrasse is a little butthead. He doesn't like my zebra barred dartfish and he will go after them just enough to show who is boss. He also likes to challenge the bigger of my two clowns. The clown goes after me when I stick my hand into the tank. The wrasse doesn't do it all the time, just once in awhile and just very quick, never any damage, the dartfish can get away.

gacolt · Feb 25, 2015

cleaner wrasse

melanurus

Mike&Terry · Feb 27, 2015

joshporksandwic said:
ok forget the zoas!!! I'm a wrasse addict!!!!

Nice shots!

gacolt · Feb 27, 2015

joshporksandwich · Feb 28, 2015

Mike&Terry said:
Nice shots!

Thanks!

rboutin111 · Feb 28, 2015

I pick up this Leopard Wrasse last night. Does anyone know if it's a male or female? Is it to young to tell?

Aquaph8 · Feb 28, 2015

Female, they all start as female

Naiad · Feb 28, 2015

Cute little one. Is it eating frozen?

eatbreakfast · Feb 28, 2015

Thats a very young female, it barely is out of its juvenile coloring.

rboutin111 · Feb 28, 2015

Aquaph8 said:
Female, they all start as female

That's great news!!! Thanks.

Naiad said:
Cute little one. Is it eating frozen?

It went after a piece of frozen mysis today. Already a good sign to me.

Naiad · Feb 28, 2015

Yes, out and eating on the first day is excellent!

rboutin111 · Feb 28, 2015

Naiad said:
Yes, out and eating on the first day is excellent!

I was very surprised and pleased to see it swimming around today. I figured it would spend the day in the sand.

gatekeeperdi · Mar 5, 2015

Hi, what a great thread.

I've got a melanurus & a black spot cleaner wrasse as well as a yellow tang, regal tang, copperband butterfly, mandarin, algae blenny, foxface & file fish in my 64"x30"x24" display.

I'd like to add more wrasse. The ones I like are the iridis, exquisite, carpenters flasher, mccoskers flasher, naoko, solon red headed female & the blue star leopard. Would any combination of these be likely to work ok without world war 3 erupting?

Thanks, Di

eatbreakfast · Mar 5, 2015

gatekeeperdi said:
Hi, what a great thread.

I've got a melanurus & a black spot cleaner wrasse as well as a yellow tang, regal tang, copperband butterfly, mandarin, algae blenny, foxface & file fish in my 64"x30"x24" display.

I'd like to add more wrasse. The ones I like are the iridis, exquisite, carpenters flasher, mccoskers flasher, naoko, solon red headed female & the blue star leopard. Would any combination of these be likely to work ok without world war 3 erupting?

Thanks, Di

Any and all of those species should work, but there are always exceptions. I strongly recommend using a social acclimation box when introducing new wrasses to a tank with an established wrasse.

N1Husker · Mar 5, 2015

I had a McCoskers once before, he survived 3 moves with me but not the fourth. I sure miss him, he was a very friendly, beautiful fish. I am already beyond my fish limit and I don't want to stress them out my adding another fish, or I would have another one. I have a One Spot Foxface Rabbit fish, 2 Bangaii Cardinalls, 2 Ocellaris clowns, 5 Zebra Bar Dartfish, 1 flametail blenny, 1 Royal Gramma, 1 Melanurus Wrasse, 1 Red Head Salon Fairy Wrasse, 1 Scooter Blenny, 1 Coral Banded Shrimp and a clean up crew, in a 120 gallon tank. Plus a bunch of mixed corals, softies, mushrooms, lps, sps.