The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[eatbreakfast]

Anyone have an ID for this guy/girl?

Looks like a C. cyanopleura, but a pic without so much blue light would help.

I figure wrasse lovers will have my answer. My LFS has never seen the wrasse I was interested in, and didn't have any advice on price or experience with it in a tank environment. It is a Richmonds wrasse. It is on live aquaria and it says reef safe with caution. I know some fish prefer hard over soft and vice versa. Just hoping to find someone who has had one, and a little of what to expect if I choose to get one. Will it eat my cleaner, and fire shrimp? Are my snails and hermits lunch?

I have a 90 gallon. With xenia, zooanthids, Duncan, starry polyps, and a mushroom.

Perhaps my favorite Halichoeres species. It is peaceful to other fish, completely safe with corals, larger specimens may go after some inverts, but the ones I have had left inverts alone.

I got a McCosker’s flasher wrasse about 2.5 weeks ago from my lfs. It’s been doing great until today when I found it swimming in corkscrews. I’m guessing it is a swim bladder issue but I do not see any bulging. Do you think this is due to illness, injury, or maybe cyanide poisoning?

That behavior is most often related to a spinal injury.

 

[Ds04384]

That behavior is most often related to a spinal injury.

Any idea what would cause that in the tank? Any hope for it? I do have a solid glass top on it specifically to prevent flashers from jumping out. Do you think it jumped and hit it hard enough to cause this?

 

[eatbreakfast]

Any idea what would cause that in the tank? Any hope for it? I do have a solid glass top on it specifically to prevent flashers from jumping out. Do you think it jumped and hit it hard enough to cause this?

Glass lids definitely could do that. I strongly recommend investing in a clear 1/4" mesh lid.

 

[saltyhog]

Any idea what would cause that in the tank? Any hope for it? I do have a solid glass top on it specifically to prevent flashers from jumping out. Do you think it jumped and hit it hard enough to cause this?

Definitely a possiblility, it can also run in to the side panes of the tank but I would think that's less likely. I've never had one recover from it but my series is only 4 fish. I have read of them recovering....much like people with a spinal contusion can regain some/all of their neurologic deficit. The longer it goes without improving, the less likely it is to happen IMO.

Mine have always eaten...or tried to. They will often have to circle several times to line up with the food. It would help them to turn flow down or off during feeding to help them "be more accurate". Mine have always circled in a specific direction...probably related to the location of the spinal injury.

Good luck!

 

[Ds04384]

Definitely a possiblility, it can also run in to the side panes of the tank but I would think that's less likely. I've never had one recover from it but my series is only 4 fish. I have read of them recovering....much like people with a spinal contusion can regain some/all of their neurologic deficit. The longer it goes without improving, the less likely it is to happen IMO.

Mine have always eaten...or tried to. They will often have to circle several times to line up with the food. It would help them to turn flow down or off during feeding to help them "be more accurate". Mine have always circled in a specific direction...probably related to the location of the spinal injury.

Good luck!

It is definitely responding to and trying to eat. Hopefully it’ll recover but right now it’s just devastating to watch

 

[Krzydmnd]

That C. nahacki is stunning. Makes me wish I had ordered the one on DD yesterday!

It's still there!

 

[HairyGary]

That C. nahacki is stunning. Makes me wish I had ordered the one on DD yesterday!

They seem to be popping up more and more. They had a transitional male just before xmas I wish I pulled the trigger on

 

[HairyGary]

C. earlei
C. shutmani
C. kwazulu
C. rosefascia
P. attenuatus terminal male
P. attenutaus transitional male
C. lunatus
C. nahacki

And of course photo bombing
Z. gemmatum

Very nice list! How do the Attenutes get along? What size tank?

 

[Jamie_S]

Newest addition to our reef, and very quickly became everyone's favorite. Daughter named him Calvin.
Also, really need to learn how to use this fancy new iPhone to take better pics.

 

[d-man]

Very nice list! How do the Attenutes get along? What size tank?

At first the transitional male picked on the terminal male since he was added after. But the hooded(bathyphillus) got in between and stopped the transitional males aggression. It only lasted a couple hrs. Then they were all fine.

960g 8’x4’x4’

 

[cancun]

Just took this pic of sleeping Red Coris Wrasse....first pic is of my character awake.....

 

[saltyhog]

Cool picture! None of my sand sleeping wrasse have ever chosen to sleep that close to the glass.

 

[cancun]

Cool picture! None of my sand sleeping wrasse have ever chosen to sleep that close to the glass.

Thanks! Yea I no he sleeps around there but never paid attention, then one night I was like WHAT is in my sand! I grabbed a flashlight and there he was! LOL! My other Wrasses don't sleep next to the glass though. One leopard sleeps under my Maxima clam though! LOL!

 

[Krzydmnd]

My favorite fish right now, he's so curious, always comes to check me out whatever I'm doing at the tank.

 

[d-man]

Beautiful. Wait til his terminal colors really come through and he begins to flash. So underrated IMO

 

[cancun]

My favorite fish right now, he's so curious, always comes to check me out whatever I'm doing at the tank.

Beautiful fish! I love the colors! [emoji16]

 

[saltyhog]

Had an interesting success this week. Wondering if it was luck or if anyone else has had it work for them.

I introduced a P. angulatus and P. lineopunctatus to my tank which had an established P. flavianalis that is (I'm not kidding) well over 3", bigger than some of my fairy wrasses. He ignored the two in the acclimation box and I let them out after two days. The linespot could not contain himself and started flashing incessantly. Bad choice....the yellow fin chased him till he hid in the rock work all the time.

I removed the yellow fin for a month and put him back in last week.....best of buds now and all 3 are flashing at each other.

 

[HairyGary]

Had an interesting success this week. Wondering if it was luck or if anyone else has had it work for them.

I introduced a P. angulatus and P. lineopunctatus to my tank which had an established P. flavianalis that is (I'm not kidding) well over 3", bigger than some of my fairy wrasses. He ignored the two in the acclimation box and I let them out after two days. The linespot could not contain himself and started flashing incessantly. Bad choice....the yellow fin chased him till he hid in the rock work all the time.

I removed the yellow fin for a month and put him back in last week.....best of buds now and all 3 are flashing at each other.

Nice! All three very underrated.

 

[OrionN]

My Blue Throat Fairy. He is one heck of a beautiful wrasse but so hard to take a good picture of him since he is so fast. 4 hrs and several hundred pictures and this is all I have to show for it.

 

[saltyhog]

Tried to get some video of my fish with my phone. I may try again later with my GoPro.