NanoCrazed
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In interest of sharing and learning... here's one article from LiveAquaria (https://www.liveaquaria.com/article/276/?aid=276) :
"f you want to keep more than one fairy wrasse, try maintaining a harem consisting of one male and several females. In order to avoid fighting between harem members, it is important to introduce them simultaneously or to add the females first. Then after the females have adjusted to the tank, add the more aggressive male. You are much more likely to have success in keeping groups of fairy wrasses if you place them in a larger aquarium (in small tanks even females may not get along or males may pester females to death)."
"There is one drawback to keeping male Cirrhilabrus on their own. While color loss in many reef fishes can be attributed to an improper diet, in male fairy wrasses chromatic changes are more often the result of a lack of social interactions with conspecifics. If these fishes are not kept together, the males color (and possibly his gender) will begin to revert back to that of the female. For example, it is not uncommon for male Scott's Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus scottorum) to lose the bright red blotch on their sides (a chromatic feature of the male) if they are not housed with members of their own kind."
admittedly, not much is know or written about rather specific to magma wrasses except for a cross-sectional study of population and physical variances in males sample.
As for breeding \ spawning... fairy wrasses have been observed to spawn in captivity. the challenge is being able to collect the spawn and raising fries sufficiently. (https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2011/11/fish)
I have a room full of tanks so my thoughts were to attempt a harem and worst case scenario, I would separate them out between my tanks.
"f you want to keep more than one fairy wrasse, try maintaining a harem consisting of one male and several females. In order to avoid fighting between harem members, it is important to introduce them simultaneously or to add the females first. Then after the females have adjusted to the tank, add the more aggressive male. You are much more likely to have success in keeping groups of fairy wrasses if you place them in a larger aquarium (in small tanks even females may not get along or males may pester females to death)."
"There is one drawback to keeping male Cirrhilabrus on their own. While color loss in many reef fishes can be attributed to an improper diet, in male fairy wrasses chromatic changes are more often the result of a lack of social interactions with conspecifics. If these fishes are not kept together, the males color (and possibly his gender) will begin to revert back to that of the female. For example, it is not uncommon for male Scott's Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus scottorum) to lose the bright red blotch on their sides (a chromatic feature of the male) if they are not housed with members of their own kind."
admittedly, not much is know or written about rather specific to magma wrasses except for a cross-sectional study of population and physical variances in males sample.
As for breeding \ spawning... fairy wrasses have been observed to spawn in captivity. the challenge is being able to collect the spawn and raising fries sufficiently. (https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2011/11/fish)
I have a room full of tanks so my thoughts were to attempt a harem and worst case scenario, I would separate them out between my tanks.
