Wrasse for 3' 65g

40B Knasty · Apr 16, 2020

I am on the lookout for a new wrasse and in need of some great ideas! Tankmates would be a Blue Spotted Jawfish, Flame Angel, Carberryi Anthias, Grammica Lined Dartfish, and Green Mandarin. Shoot me some suggestions that would work. Timor, Melanurus, and Adorned are thoughts. Something under $100 if possible. $150 the most. Tell me about your experience with it if you have it or if it is just a dream fish you wanted. I just lost a yellow and purple wrasse aka 4 Spot. I do have a sand bed.

lapin · Apr 16, 2020

Any of the flasher wrasses would work as long as you have a tank cover.

40B Knasty · Apr 16, 2020

lapin said:
Any of the flasher wrasses would work as long as you have a tank cover.

I have a BSJ. Definitely need a cover for him. When you say Flasher wrasse. Isn't there like a thousand of them?

lapin · Apr 16, 2020

40B Knasty said:
I have a BSJ. Definitely need a cover for him. When you say Flasher wrasse. Isn't there like a thousand of them?

Yes there are a ton o flashers. Some are very expensive.

haleyf1024 · Apr 16, 2020

McCoskers and Carpenters are nice. I love my four line and sixline as well.

Angel_Anthias lover · Apr 17, 2020

Im not sure 3 foot is great for flasher wrasses, they really like to zip and swim with bursts of energy, and a 3 foot may cramp them. I found my old mccoskers even felt crampt in a 4 foot by the time he was fully grown.

40B Knasty · Apr 17, 2020

Angel_Anthias lover said:
Im not sure 3 foot is great for flasher wrasses, they really like to zip and swim with bursts of energy, and a 3 foot may cramp them. I found my old mccoskers even felt crampt in a 4 foot by the time he was fully grown.

That's some great advice right there. I will definitely put that into my thoughts of of maybe owning one. I see websites saying they can live in a 30-55g. I have seen them in the stores as juveniles displaying exactly what you are talking about. Then I always raised the question to myself of what they would be like as an adult.

alton · Apr 17, 2020

Pintail would be my number one suggestion, CF lunatus #2. As a female in my LFS you can find them for $40 and they turn very fast. Both are very docile. The first picture is a pintail sub adult. The second/third are my CF lunatus as a female and then adult four months later

saltyhog · Apr 17, 2020

Some good advice above. I would only add to avoid leopards and Halichoeres wrasses who will out compete your mandarin for it's preferred food.

40B Knasty · Apr 17, 2020

saltyhog said:
Some good advice above. I would only add to avoid leopards and Halichoeres wrasses who will out compete your mandarin for it's preferred food.

Mandarin eats frozens and I culture Tigger Pods in a separate tank.

Kyl · Apr 17, 2020

@evolved @eatbreakfast

saltyhog · Apr 17, 2020

40B Knasty said:
Mandarin eats frozens and I culture Tigger Pods in a separate tank.

Understood, but I still wouldn't. Your cultured pods would be gone about as fast as added with either of those in the tank and even mandarins that eat frozen require an almost continual availability of food which is just almost impossible to achieve.

40B Knasty · Apr 17, 2020

saltyhog said:
Understood, but I still wouldn't. Your cultured pods would be gone about as fast as added with either of those in the tank and even mandarins that eat frozen require an almost continual availability of food which is just almost impossible to achieve.

Looks like I achieved the impossible. I know how to take care of a Mandarin with a wrasse. My mandarin is bigger than my sausage fingers. Did it for 4 years. Just looking for types of wrasse that are of the coris type.