The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[Crabby48]

Evicted. Now playing I’ll be good coming up for cuddles. Not falling for it nor spending the time with him as I did with flame. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/supermale-earl-fairy-wrasse.1013489/

 

[i cant think]

More importantly, what will @i cant think replace it with!?

If I replace him, I have an idea of what I’ll go for (unless Hawaii reopens for all its fish… which is unlikely).

 

[JoJosReef]

If I replace him, I have an idea of what I’ll go for (unless Hawaii reopens for all its fish… which is unlikely).

For kicks, which Hawaiian wrasse? M. geoffroy is from Hawaiian waters, right?

Off topic, but my QT person is looking around for C. rubeus, a pinkie and an M. negrosensis. I'm thinking Cr + pinkie OR Cr + Mn. Any thoughts?

My tank currently has Mb, Hc, exquisite firefish, tailspot blenny, yasha shrimp goby and pair occelaris. Pretty well stocked already, but everyone is fat, getting along, and I can't keep nitrates up and I don't even have a skimmer. Maybe one or two more would tip the scales on overcrowding??

Cr is my favorite so far, but seriously love the pinkies (surprisingly.. at first I thought they were boring but now find them adorable), and Macropharyngodon have also really stolen my heart. Hmm.. Tank upgrade is at least 2 yr away, maybe more.

 

[i cant think]

For kicks, which Hawaiian wrasse? M. geoffroy is from Hawaiian waters, right?

Yup, but as much as I love them I wouldn’t have one, the one I was hinting to is Anampses chrycosephalus which seems to be native to other islands although I’m not sure how true that is.

 

[LeonardTheWrasse]

For kicks, which Hawaiian wrasse? M. geoffroy is from Hawaiian waters, right?

Off topic, but my QT person is looking around for C. rubeus, a pinkie and an M. negrosensis. I'm thinking Cr + pinkie OR Cr + Mn. Any thoughts?

My tank currently has Mb, Hc, exquisite firefish, tailspot blenny, yasha shrimp goby and pair occelaris. Pretty well stocked already, but everyone is fat, getting along, and I can't keep nitrates up and I don't even have a skimmer. Maybe one or two more would tip the scales on overcrowding??

Cr is my favorite so far, but seriously love the pinkies (surprisingly.. at first I thought they were boring but now find them adorable), and Macropharyngodon have also really stolen my heart. Hmm.. Tank upgrade is at least 2 yr away, maybe more.

If it were me, I'd go with a pinkie and C. rubeus. They are some of my favourite wrasse though.
Actually, I do really like the M. negrosensis, but I have no clue how it would behave with your M. bipartitus in a smaller tank.

 

[saltyhog]

I miss my Potter's! Shame on you for dissing them @ i cant think.

For now I'm staying away from additional Halichoeres and Macropharyngodon till I'm confident my tank will hold enough pods for them and my mandarin.

Two of my previous Hawaiian wrasse.

 

[AydenLincoln]

For those of you who have melanurus wrasses do you notice they breathe heavy/pant compared to other fish? I notice this happening and it’s kind of always been like this and I’ve had him for months and he eats very well. I believe it’s normal.

 

[homer1475]

Every mel I've owned always seemed to breath heavy, but they were also the most active swimmers. I always chalked it up to them being very active. Never really thought much about it.

 

[AydenLincoln]

Every mel I've owned always seemed to breath heavy, but they were also the most active swimmers. I always chalked it up to them being very active. Never really thought much about it.

Good to know it’s normal. They definitely do breathe differently than other fish! And yes very active I love mine!

 

[i cant think]

He’s out again, looking gorgeous even in his damaged state, I have officially seen who the aggressor is and it is the Jade, he went for my diamond tail when he was coming out and has also gone for some of the other wrasses.

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

So my unknown wrasse is starting to mature and change color. I was hoping maybe there is more clues to the identity. Pictures are shot with mixed lighting and an orange filter. His eyes are very reflective.

What he looked like when I first got him!

 

[Slocke]

So my unknown wrasse is starting to mature and change color. I was hoping maybe there is more clues to the identity. Pictures are shot with mixed lighting and an orange filter. His eyes are very reflective.

What he looked like when I first got him!

Halichoeres dispilus?

Edit: nope. Highly unlikely you’ll get a Eastern Pacific fish

 

[blecki]

Ive tried fish eggs, frozen copepods, live copepods, ampipods lol. I will try again some day but waiting until I KNOW my DT and SUMP have a large population of pods before.

There's always the fall back method... have a bunch of large fish + buy it from a vendor that quarantines so you can put it right into the tank...

 

[cdnco2004]

There's always the fall back method... have a bunch of large fish + buy it from a vendor that quarantines so you can put it right into the tank...

I don't even trust the qt vendors.

 

[i cant think]

So my unknown wrasse is starting to mature and change color. I was hoping maybe there is more clues to the identity. Pictures are shot with mixed lighting and an orange filter. His eyes are very reflective.

What he looked like when I first got him!

Hes gorgeous, and is by the looks of it a Halichoeres dispilus which is available to the hobby I believe just not often encountered.

 

[Slocke]

Hes gorgeous, and is by the looks of it a Halichoeres dispilus which is available to the hobby I believe just not often encountered.

Oh dispilus… How’d you come up with that??

 

[AZReef13]

My Juvenile? Female Cirrhilabrus balteatus, arrived today... already eating

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

Halichoeres dispilus?

Edit: nope. Highly unlikely you’ll get a Eastern Pacific fish

Apparently I have one... LOL I do not know for how long though... 6-10 inches. My tank is too small for that.

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

Hes gorgeous, and is by the looks of it a Halichoeres dispilus which is available to the hobby I believe just not often encountered.

We have a winner! I was hoping it was a accidental temperate fish, so I could put him in my temperate tank. Have to do a bit more research. Still might be able too. The habitat is from 10 - 250 ft. Baja Peninsula water is on the cooler side. I run my temperate at 63 degrees, so maybe.

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

Oh dispilus… How’d you come up with that??

Because he is the person you ask when you want to know....