The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[JayKim]

Picked up the Lineatus few weeks ago. The pink margin flashed and chased and nipped, so I put it into a smaller tank for a week and put it back to main tank and they seem fine for now...

 

[JayKim]

and the flame wrasse eats anything edible i put in the tank. looking forward to it turning into a stud male.

 

[OrionN]

OK. I promise not to post a picture of this wrasse unless I have one that I think is better than the last one.The Exquisite Fairy just zip by at what seem to be 100 mph. He is very beautiful too.

 

[JayKim]

OK. I promise not to post a picture of this wrasse unless I have one that I think is better than the last one.The Exquisite Fairy just zip by at what seem to be 100 mph. He is very beautiful too.

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[eatbreakfast]

That exquisite in the background is exquisite.

 

[OrionN]

I have the opportunity to get a juvenile/female Eightline Flasher wrasse. She is only 1.5 inches. She is a little thin right now but eating well. I know that the Veteran Wrasse Keepers recommended not to try to pair Fairies and Flashers. Still, I want to try. I do have other systems. When the female turn male I will either sell him or else keep him in another system.
What do you guys and gals think?

 

[OrionN]

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These guys are fast especially when they are excited. Mke it so difficult to get good pictures, especially in dimmer light.

That exquisite in the background is exquisite.

Thanks. He is the smallest wrasse in my tank, even smaller than my Blue, Yellow Fin, and McCosker's Flashers.

 

[saltyhog]

That exquisite in the background is exquisite.

Touche! That one makes me really dissatisfied with mine. Hopefully it's just because mine is young.

 

[evolved]

That exquisite in the background is exquisite.

Yeah, that one is quite nice!

I know that the Veteran Wrasse Keepers recommended not to try to pair Fairies and Flashers. Still, I want to try. I do have other systems. When the female turn male I will either sell him or else keep him in another system.
What do you guys and gals think?

It'll work for a while. They might even spawn for a period of time. But then one day, things won't be so great. At that point, you may only have a few days to intervene before the now transitioning younger male has a death match with the older male.

 

[OrionN]

Thanks @evolved. I had a harem of Royal Gramma for several years. They spawn regularly. Once the older male get weak, he was promptly killed by one of the female which change to male. I could not get him out. This was in a 450 gal tank full of coral and live rock. In this case I really see the male getting older.
I have to think long and hard about this. I may devise away to separate the tank with a divider. I can quickly divide them when needed then take my time removing one of them. If I can devise a way to do this, I may give this a go.
What ever I do, I don't want to loose an Eightline Wrasse with something as preventable and easy predicted as this.

 

[saltyhog]

It's a ton of fun to watch the pecking order changes that occur in a tank with wrasses. My flame arrived as a 2" female and is now a 3 1/2" terminal male. He has been subordinate to my Exquisite who is easily an each smaller than him. Over the last week, the flame has quite running away and displays while holding his ground with the Exquisite. Today I come home and the flame is chasing both the Exquisite and the large Labout's who was the top dog fairy wrasse in the tank. I guess there's a new sheriff in town.

 

[evolved]

New sheriffs are fun, new serial killers are not.

 

[dwest]

OK. I promise not to post a picture of this wrasse unless I have one that I think is better than the last one.The Exquisite Fairy just zip by at what seem to be 100 mph. He is very beautiful too.

Wow that exquisite is so much more colorful than mine!

 

[OrionN]

I love my China Wrasse also

 

[Kyl]

Yeah, that one is quite nice!

It'll work for a while. They might even spawn for a period of time. But then one day, things won't be so great. At that point, you may only have a few days to intervene before the now transitioning younger male has a death match with the older male.

Can confirm, when fairys go nasty, they REALLY GO NASTY! To the point the c. lubbocki I was talking about a few days ago was pecking constantly at the c. cyanopleura while pinned against rock / glass, and that had a solid inch and quite a bit more girth than it. I couldn't imagine if it was another lubbocki

 

[OrionN]

I actually have two Lubbocki in my tank. Two males. They have been together for the last year. They fight a lot but not to the point of killing each other.
My tank is a 320 with quite a few wrasses. The Lubbocki are fast like my Exquisite hard to take good pictures of them.

 

[evolved]

I actually have two Lubbocki in my tank. Two males. They have been together for the last year. They fight a lot but not to the point of killing each other.

Sometimes it works. It certainly can, but because it typically doesn't, I always advise against it.
(I've had it work occasionally before in the past too, but it's not the norm. Definitely the exception and unpredictable.)

 

[saltyhog]

New sheriffs are fun, new serial killers are not.

For sure. So far thanks to you, only Sherriff's here....at least among wrasses.

 

[OrionN]

Here are my two Lubbock and my Exquisite Fairies. They are among my first Fairies that I keep. I have not keep wrasses for all that long. Never really know much about them until the Wrasse Bug bite me about 18 months ago.

 

[OrionN]

My Solon Fairy Wrasse

I think this qualify as a better picture.