What to add with a Lunar Wrasse?

[LittleDabOSalt]

Just added my first fish, a fairly large Lunar Wrasse ( into my 75g ) which has been up and running for about 4 months. I'm looking for suggestions on what would be safe to add down the road fish wise. This wrasse is a beast, she eats like a horse and aggressively at that. I had moved a small plug of zoas from my husband's tank into mine and she went nuts moving it around, couldn't figure out what her deal was till a fairly large brittle star popped out of it and she then proceeded to make it her lunch. Anyway, I love the wrasse but am hesitant to add anything due to her aggressive nature. What can I add that she won't just kill off? I'd also like suggestions from you all on what to add with her as well as to take care of the algae on my rocks, I can't put in snails obviously but still need something to take care of it.

I had been leaning towards adding the following down the road:

Cleaner Wrasse
Powder Brown Tang
Flame Angel
Sailfin Blenny
Clown or 2
Cucumber

 

[revsgirl]

:bump2:

 

[tinctorus]

I hope this is or wasnt going to be a reef rank...
Lunare wrasse's are SUPER agressive, will move EVERYTHING around that they want to and will eat just about ANY type of invert you put in there as far as crabs, snails, shrimp and any fish small enough to tear to pieces...
Oh and fingertips

 

[evolved]

I hope this is or wasnt going to be a reef rank...
Lunare wrasse's are SUPER agressive, will move EVERYTHING around that they want to and will eat just about ANY type of invert you put in there as far as crabs, snails, shrimp and any fish small enough to tear to pieces...
Oh and fingertips

+1 to this ^

Also, please skip the cleaner wrasse.

 

[Rabidgoose]

+1 to this ^

Also, please skip the cleaner wrasse.

+1 to this too, and your tank is to small for a PBT.....IMO

 

[LittleDabOSalt]

Thank you for the replies. The wrasse will not be staying permanently, just until the hubby has his next 125g project completed ( fowlr ), already know we'll play heck trying to catch the darned thing but was too large and pretty to pass up. We'd been wanting one and since I wasn't in a hurry to add to my 75 we threw the wrasse on in. Not much in the way of corals there, a few zoas, kenya and cabbage which he or she can move to it's hearts content. Good to know on the aggression though, had read they were somewhat but the LFS had led me to believe not all that bad if things added were blocked off with egg crate for awhile. Will wait for what I want to do until the wrasse is in it's new home first.

It was mentioned to skip the cleaner wrasse but not mentioned as to why. Due to the LW or one of the others mentioned? I'm very clear on not being able to add snails, crabs or shrimp but wondered what I could actually add for algae issues. Thanks again for the replies.

 

[evolved]

My blurb on cleaner wrasses:

Labroides: I hesitate to even include this genus, as I big reservations against even buying them, let alone keeping them or recommending them for a reef tank. These are the “cleaner” wrasses, as in the wild they remove parasites and dead scales/tissue from other reef fish. My reservations against buying/keeping this genus are due to the following two reasons: they cannot be sustained long term in a closed system as a diet of prepared foods does not offer them the range of nutrition they require, and mostly the mere collection of this species negatively impacts the overall health of a wild reef. There are a few success stories about keeping a cleaner wrasse long term, but for each success there are hundreds of failures. Please leave this fish in the ocean where it’s best suited. If the demand for sales of these species would cease, so would their wild collection.

 

[chris13115]

A nice puffer or trigger. Puffers be warned, you need shrimp with shells, personally i love the porcupine or spiny box puffer. Triggers are problems, depends on the one you get. If you decide to get a trigger Undulate Triggers are the ones to avoid at all costs, 1000000X nastier then the Lunar. IMO, you have screwed yourself sortof. These guys are the last ones to be added to anything. He harasses new tankmates, in my old 125, he picked on everyone and killed my blue dot jawfish. I think you should move him or give him to your LFS. Start small then dream big. Dont add any inverts, only live rock if you want him.

Good Luck

 

[kv2wr1]

I have a lunar wrasse in QT and am afraid to add it to my aggressive fowlr after hearing the kind of damage they can do (i.e. ripping out other fish's eyes and killing other fish). I've heard stories of lunars killing groupers, puffers and aggressive triggers like clown triggers. These are big fish! I guess if you would want to get a tank mate, get something really aggressive like an undulate trigger or a titan trigger.