Royal gramma with wrasse?

[Pete polyp]

I have a royal gramma in my frag tank. I also have a 40 with a line spot flasher wrasse and a mc cosker flasher wrasse. I'm probably going to add another flasher wrasse in the 40, maybe a yellowfin flasher wrasse. I know a six line and royal gramma will fight, but what fish will a six line not fight? Will the gramma be a problem with my other wrasse though?

 

[jason142]

IME sixlines are pretty aggressive and you never know what fish will get attacked by it. It is almost pretty much guaranteed that any wrasse you add with a sixline will not go well. I have added other wrasses when I had my royal gramma and there was a little aggression at first but it only lasted a couple of days.

 

[Pete polyp]

Yeah, I don't plan to have the six line. I just don't want the gramma to bully the flasher wrasse I have.

 

[jason142]

The gramma that I had pretty much stayed in his little area. I did add a mcckoskers flasher with him and he showed a little aggression, mostly open mouth gestures and chased it away but after a few days it stopped. Not saying that this would be the case for you because every fish is different but I would say that it is worth a shot.

 

[eatbreakfast]

I have a gramma with a bunch of wrasses, the gramma was in first and never had any problems. The wrasses are fairy, flasher, halichoeres, leptojulis, and xenojulis.

 

[Pete polyp]

This is one if my favorite pictures of a reef. I'm not sure where it cane from, just something I stumbled across

 

[guidedbyechoes]

gramma's are mostly bark

 

[Sense of nature]

Awesome pic, I just made it my background

 

[KillerKlownFish]

I have/had a six line and a gramma. The six line is 3x the size. My six line disappeared 3 days after I got him. The gramma is still around but a few days after the six line went Mia the gramma is all beat up. The clowns get along with gramma and so does a scooter blenny. Also Mia is yellow watch man. Gramma is one tough fish!

 

[guidedbyechoes]

my gramma pretty much just hid all the time when I added my wrasse. He just chilled in the rock work until it was time to eat. They say a 55 in the min for an H. melanurus but after my fish and his constant pacing I think a 75 would be a better fit.

 

[rako1]

my gramma destroyed my coris wrass before i was able to get him out. hope you do better GL

 

[Rutrag]

I have a gramma with a leopard, Carpenter's, and Lubbock's with no issues in my 75.

When I had a gramma in my 37 with a fairy wrasse, he did a little open mouth chasing , but never actually harassed or bit the fairy wrasse - just shooed him away.

 

[jstec]

Depends on the sixline some don't bother anything and some act possessed I've personally never had a gramma bother anything but it acted like it was the biggest meanest fish ...I second the all bark view though I'm sure some are different

 

[Gunner2012]

I don't recommend it. I tried to add a fairy wrasse in my 93 cube and my royal gramma continually went into attack mode ( as the great pic above from Pete). This daily harassment eventually stressed my Fairy Wrasse out and it died.

 

[saltyhog]

I have a a gramma in with 7 wrasse (faries, flashers and halichoerus), no problems at all. The gramma was the first fish in and is the low man on that totem pole.

 

[mOUs3y]

This is one if my favorite pictures of a reef. I'm not sure where it cane from, just something I stumbled across

What's the fish to the left?

 

[nereefpat]

What's the fish to the left?

6 line wrasse