Wrasses With Wrasses

[LIttle Reef Keeper]

I have a fairly peaceful 6-line right now in my 40. Would it be a bad idea to add a flasher in with him?


Zack

 

[Cliff]

I had a Christmas and a melinoris wrasse Together they fought so much that eventually they ended up splashing one of my ai hydra lights and blew the board in it so that cost me $250. Then the melinoris beat up the Christmas so much that he hid in the overflow constantly; then died from being sucked down the drain pipe.
After this I will not try another wrasse pair.
But maybe my experience if unique? Idk

 

[LIttle Reef Keeper]

I had a Christmas and a melinoris wrasse Together they fought so much that eventually they ended up splashing one of my ai hydra lights and blew the board in it so that cost me $250. Then the melinoris beat up the Christmas so much that he hid in the overflow constantly; then died from being sucked down the drain pipe.
After this I will not try another wrasse pair.
But maybe my experience if unique? Idk

Yikes!


Zack

 

[Luke.]

You can have wrasses together but I hate to say it the only way is adding them all in at once , (giving that they generally get along together) and 6 lines are nasty buggers lol aggressive you could have 10 wrasses but if you don't add them at ones youres sol lol

 

[LIttle Reef Keeper]

You can have wrasses together but I hate to say it the only way is adding them all in at once , (giving that they generally get along together) and 6 lines are nasty buggers lol aggressive you could have 10 wrasses but if you don't add them at ones youres sol lol

Darn, he's pretty passive with my anthias, dwarf lion and clown just wasn't sure with another wrasse. What about him with a Royal gramma?


Zack

 

[derrick orosz]

I have a yellow and leopard together. They don't care about each other

 

[LIttle Reef Keeper]

I have a yellow and leopard together. They don't care about each other

I've got a 40


Zack

 

[zoomster]

I have a male/female pair of bird wrasses with a moon wrasse and they all play nice together!

 

[David Caplan]

I have had trouble mixing wrasses in the past, especially Sixlines. My tank currently has 3 fairy wrasses (2 pintail, 1 crescent), 2 pygmy wrasse (wetmorella tenaka and nigropinnata) living together nicely.

 

[BIGSHOW]

certain wrasse can be dicks. Typical suspects are:
6 line
Melanurus
8 line (not as bad as 6line)

If you want to add wrasse to the tank I would take the 6 line out and add the new one, then add the 6 line back in. The wrasse listed above should be the last ones to add and should be much smaller then the wrasse already in the system.

Hope that helps

 

[David Caplan]

That is good advice, following in that vein, unless the tank is very large, don't mix large wrasses with any of the pygmy, possum or dwarf varieties. Even if the large wrasse is passive, their similar swimming style seems to scare the others. I had a very peaceful 2-spot wrasse that all the small wrasses were terrified of. I also had the same problem mixing a larger fairy wrasse with the wetmorellas. A year ago and a half ago a newly introduced dime-sized sixline killed every other fish in my tank (including two wetmorellas) and all the shrimp. I now only keep one as the only inhabitant of my frag tank.

 

[LIttle Reef Keeper]

Ok guys! Thanks! I really like the 6 line so maybe I'll just keep him and wait till the next tank to get a flasher. What about other aggressive fish like a Royal gramma being added?


Zack