Pick a Wrasse for Me!

[aquatic26]

I have a 40g breeder FOWLR (a couple of softies, but I don't mind if they get nibbled, transitioning over to full FOWLR) and I am looking to add a wrasse to it. I'm having a hard time choosing and have been reading so many conflicting posts - e.g. six line is a menace, six line is a model citizen. Right now the tank only has 2 small clowns, a juvenile royal gramma, and a little shrimp goby who never leaves the front of his lair. Setting up a refugium in the next couple of days, so I hope to have a good pod population going in a month's time. Preference given to interesting coloration and social personality that swims in the water column vs. mainly hiding in rock work. Not planning to upgrade any time soon, so please consider tank size when recommending.

TIA!

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Pink streaks and possums are my favorite small wrasses, they both start out secretive but very quickly become bold and personable. Some other species on the Pseudocheilinus genus may work besides the sixline, namely the disappearing and mystery wrasses, though both of them do get a little bigger then the sixline.
Sixlines, eight lines and four lines are usually only aggressive to new additions, so they should be more then fine with your current stock if added now. But after you add it, that's the last thing going on the tank.

 

[Floyd-]

I just picked up a Possum wrasse and its been a great fish so far. It hid for the first few days but its coming out and swimming with my Molly.