Wrasse Question

[Lovefish77]

I just got a yellow flanky wrasse (like 2.5-3") and is in quarantine now. I want to add it to my 75 but i have a serpent star fish there (like 6-7" across), will the wrasse eat that guy?

thanks

 

[josvanmeer]

They go for small stuff. IF they even are enticed by it. I have a melanarus wrasse and it doesnt touch anything but picking at my rocks and the food I give it

 

[josvanmeer]

Oh never mind I read yellow wrasse not yellow flanked. Thats a fairy wrasse; they are completely reef safe.

 

[Lovefish77]

Oh never mind I read yellow wrasse not yellow flanked. Thats a fairy wrasse; they are completely reef safe.

By reef safe you mean it will not touch that serpent star fish? Because reef safe means they will not bother corals really and not inverts.
thanks

 

[Billdogg]

The only things it will bother in your tank are the pods and bristle worms. IMHO, perfectly reef suitable, but only if you have a well fitting top of some sort. They do love to jump!

 

[Lovefish77]

The only things it will bother in your tank are the pods and bristle worms. IMHO, perfectly reef suitable, but only if you have a well fitting top of some sort. They do love to jump!

Cool i would love to get rid of bristle worms. The screen top, i am figuring it out. The yellow Corris jumped from my nano quarantine .
But the yellow flanky does not go out at all, always hiding under a rock.

 

[josvanmeer]

Fairy wrasse are generally shy at first. I have a bluehead fairy which is almost the same as your yellow flanked fairy just hiding in the pvc pipe all day. It will not swim around. I am sure it will like being in the DT a whole better than QT

 

[Billdogg]

You absolutely DO NOT want to rid your tank of bristle worms. They are an essential part of your CUC that can get to the little nooks and crannies that pretty much nothing else can.

 

[Lovefish77]

You absolutely DO NOT want to rid your tank of bristle worms. They are an essential part of your CUC that can get to the little nooks and crannies that pretty much nothing else can.

Oh I already dumped the wrasse in..too late? Some of them are hidden in hard to reach places. They just manage to sting me whenever I do something lol

 

[josvanmeer]

You absolutely DO NOT want to rid your tank of bristle worms. They are an essential part of your CUC that can get to the little nooks and crannies that pretty much nothing else can.

I have dwarf ceriths for that

 

[Lovefish77]

The wrasse died in the 75 today, it was panting even in QT from day 1.
That makes all the five fish i got from Salgado Aquatics in new york last week DEAD! I am not that newbie with fish really (maybe corals lol), there is something wrong with that store.