Best peaceful fish to eat killer amphipods

[Dylan]

How long did it take for yours to get that big?

 

[gilmour01]

2 yrs...he is a cool fish though

 

[Dylan]

I can't wait to get one.:smile:

 

[Angels 2010]

mines closing in on 6" in a 75g tank

really? biggest i've seen is 4" and they are thin and long.Mine is about 3".

6" doesn't seem really that "big" for these guys seeing as they so long and thin.

 

[gilmour01]

everyone that has seen mine says that he's the biggest one they've ever seen. he's a big baby.

 

[Dylan]

Your avatar really creeps me out...

 

[gilmour01]

its supposed to :>)

 

[Angels 2010]

everyone that has seen mine says that he's the biggest one they've ever seen. he's a big baby.

you must be doing something right....

 

[inactive]

Mystery wrasses are sweet... but I don't want them killing my breeding pair of cleaner shrimp. :tongue:

Finding a good pest killer that won't eat shrimp is going to be difficult.

 

[Dylan]

Canary wrasse?

 

[inactive]

Will also eat shrimp.

 

[gilmour01]

the possum wrasses are awesome, and they stay small (a non threat to cleaner shrimp). the downside is that they are sometimes hard to find.

 

[Reef Pets]

Very true.. Most Wrasse that will eat the cleaner shrimp that you have in your tank.

 

[Pitcom]

Yellow Coris will not eat most shrimp. I have one in each of my tanks living with cleaner, peppermint and harlequin shrimp. I even had a nano with a dozen pom pom crabs with a yellow coris. Not a problem. I wold not house one with a sexy shrimp though as I am certain it'd be a tasty treat. Yellow coris eat a variety of worms and tiny snails in the wild. In your tank they may from time to time decide to snack on a snail. I've had mine for 3 years and she eats a snail every few months.

 

[inactive]

Yellow Coris will not eat most shrimp. I have one in each of my tanks living with cleaner, peppermint and harlequin shrimp. I even had a nano with a dozen pom pom crabs with a yellow coris. Not a problem. I wold not house one with a sexy shrimp though as I am certain it'd be a tasty treat. Yellow coris eat a variety of worms and tiny snails in the wild. In your tank they may from time to time decide to snack on a snail. I've had mine for 3 years and she eats a snail every few months.

Yeah, but that's YOUR experience and your experience only. I have seen them eat just about everything you have listed with my own eyes.

 

[juicemonkey]

Yellow Coris, the best and great personality...

 

[Pitcom]

Yeah, but that's YOUR experience and your experience only. I have seen them eat just about everything you have listed with my own eyes.

Then you did not see a yellow coris, plain and simple. You may have seen a banana wrasse or some other variation that someone called a yellow coris. Anything is possible with fish and even the most peaceful can turn rogue, but i do not believe a yellow coris ate everything i mentioned, and you witnessed it all. Sorry.

 

[inactive]

Then you did not see a yellow coris, plain and simple. You may have seen a banana wrasse or some other variation that someone called a yellow coris. Anything is possible with fish and even the most peaceful can turn rogue, but i do not believe a yellow coris ate everything i mentioned, and you witnessed it all. Sorry.

lol ok kiddo.

 

[ReeferRob]

Yellow Coris will not eat most shrimp. I have one in each of my tanks living with cleaner, peppermint and harlequin shrimp. I even had a nano with a dozen pom pom crabs with a yellow coris. Not a problem. I wold not house one with a sexy shrimp though as I am certain it'd be a tasty treat. Yellow coris eat a variety of worms and tiny snails in the wild. In your tank they may from time to time decide to snack on a snail. I've had mine for 3 years and she eats a snail every few months.

I would agree, I have a green coris in my frag tank with two cleaner skunk and blood red and they get along great. Also a mythrax crab. In my DT two flasher, a fairy and a six line. Two cleaners, 1 pocelin and 1 pom pom and nothing.

 

[inactive]

Ok, well I just can't find myself agreeing that a Halichoeres that gets what.. 5... 6...7 inches?... is 100% invert safe. Whoever convinced you guys lied.