I would like to tell you guys about my male 4 inch melanurus wrasse. Said to be peaceful and reef safe by most, mine would be an exception. A wonderful gem but don't be fooled by its looks. This is a hardcore serial killer and destroyer of properties. When I first got it, it was in the QT along with a foxface. One day, my foxface started to wither and die out of thin air. It was speculated by another member that the cause of death was the menacing sole presence of this melanurus wrasse. I didn't buy this at first but what happens later changed my mind. Some time later, I purchased a black cap jawfish. Absolutely awesome looking lil dude, always wanted something unique like this. At the time I got it, the wrasse was sleeping in the sand. When I woke up the day after, it was SAVAGELY beaten by the melanurus wrasse. I didn't have anywhere else to place it so I put it in an acclimation box within the QT. One day when I came back from the outside, the jawfish was gone. The lid had opened by itself. It was not in the tank, it was not around the tank. There was a 5 gal bucket by the tank with waste water and there it is. Heavily breathing and injured in the bucket. How lucky was it to jump into a body of water! Except its salinity was at 50 ppt. That's not all. After I finally Qted it and put it in my display tank, everytime I feed my corals, it would nip and rip my corals apart. I even found it shredding clove polyps once even though there was no coral food on it. It also started to attack the new bangaii cardinals which I introduced. I was done with it so I decided to banish it to the sump with some sand. Today, I decided to return it to the DT because I forgot the menace it was and immediately it started to show aggression to the cardinals and rip off tentacles from my euphyilias when I fed them. Anyways, that's my little rant/experience with a single male melanurus devil.
TLDR: Absolute bully and terror to new fish, destroyer of innocent corals, NOT reef safe OR peaceful from my experience.
TLDR: Absolute bully and terror to new fish, destroyer of innocent corals, NOT reef safe OR peaceful from my experience.
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