The Wrasse Lover's Thread!
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petemichelle
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I was thinking of getting multiple fairy wrasse and carpenter wrasses, are they okay in the same tank, multiples I mean. like 2 or 3 of each. or will they fight.
petemichelle
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i have a 150 gal. i was thinking fairy and carpenter because i didn't want them eating all my worms and fauna. I had a 6 line wrasse before in a 29 gal bio cube and all of a sudden he ate all the worms and copepods. I was told that the fairy and carpenter wrasse wouldn't do that. are there any others that will leave my fauna and worms alone, I also have a lot of corals, zoas and sps, Lps. very mixed.
You could try one male with a couple of females of the same species, but from what I've seen around, females can be hard to find and even harder to identify correctly by species. Multiple males of different but similar species might be your better bet - they won't fight so much, but they'll flash their shiniest colors from time to time . . . You could combine a McKosker's flasher with a royal/angulated flasher and/or a blue or linespot flasher wrasse for instance. You might try a Lubbock's fairy wrasse in the tank with an orange-back fairy. (Research the species of fairy wrasse you're interested in - some are more aggressive than others.) Both of those groups are much less interested in small inverts on your rocks than a six-line would be - but they're also less interested in snacking on red bugs or acro-eating flatworms.
~Bruce
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I'd do 3 different fairy males and a couple different flashers. They never bother my coral or anything else.
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Brave soul you are with that sixline!My Wrasses................They like to sing
Just stick with single specimens of each species; the fairys and flashers mix just fine.
MJC
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Love my 6 line he has been with me for 3 1/2 years now and some times he flexes his mussels when I have a new arival but it is only for a day or two other wise he is a model citizen.
He also gets food multipul times a day and I think that creates harmony for everyone.
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Here are just a few of our wrasses that I could capture. We have in addition long fin fairy wrasse, mckorsker's, yellow wrasse, yellow banded pygmy wrasse, 2 other mealgris leopards in with the picture we have.
petemichelle
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I have always stayed away from wrasses because I have a deep sand bed and when setting it up, I took a lot of time setting and establishing the fauna. worms, pods, etc. I had a 6 line wrasse in a bio cube once and it ate all the
also very interested in a leopard wrasse, but i hear that if i add one without a quarantine, that it is likely to cause parasites, and I need to treat my tank with prazipro right from the beginning as a precaution every time I add one. please, again everyone, anyone sound in.
I think i am going to jump in and start getting wrasses. I know they will start eating the worms and pods. i've been warned. but as I have a 4 inch deep sand bed, what will happen if all the worms and pods get eaten? when I set up my deep sand bed, I was warned that if that happened, it could kill the sand bed . is that true. anybody, everybody, please sound in. need lots of talking into to reassure me that this is going to end up okay, and not with a dead sand bed and a crash...
also very interested in a leopard wrasse, but i hear that if i add one without a quarantine, that it is likely to cause parasites, and I need to treat my tank with prazipro right from the beginning as a precaution every time I add one. please, again everyone, anyone sound in.
petemichelle
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I read the feeding descriptions on some of the flashers and they say they only eat zooplankton. how do you guys feed them??? how often??? will they really not eat brine shrimps..
Djbrandriff150
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I have a deep sand bed and tons of wrasses and my sand bed is thriving.
Duke4Life
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Saw a mystery wrasse earlier, if I didn't know any
Mysis or chop up some LRS and they love it.
petemichelle
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how long has your deep sand bed been set up ???
I feed a thawed cube of "Formula One" or "Two" in the morning, flakes and small pellets in the afternoon, and "Emerald Entree", "LRS" or mysis in the evening. Flashers & fairies take it all, eagerly!
Don't know much about leopards, but suspect they'll be more interested in worms & pods, as well as prepared foods.
~Bruce
Don't know much about leopards, but suspect they'll be more interested in worms & pods, as well as prepared foods.
~Bruce
petemichelle
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what is LRS???
petemichelle
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What are the snail eaters I want to stay away from???? also coral eaters???? I've got the salt bug pretty bad, I love the hobby, don't mind the work, but the worst part of it is seeing something get killed or diving. it's not the killing fish fault, I feel in a way, it's mine for not doing my home work enough. seeing my wants and ignoring the realities. so i'm making the effort to find out the most I can. please again, chime in...
