Mystery wrasse ,Blue sided fairy wrasse, Melanurus wrasse, Wetmorella wrasse, Solarensis wrasse ,Scotts wrasse and Exquisite fairy wrasse are all great and they are all jumpers. I have picked up my Mystery wrasse off the floor twice and resuscitated it twice. It has also eaten 4 cleaner shrimp as well. Believe they get taste for them when they get bigger. I would be leary of the Melanurus wrasse as well I have heard they eat shrimp too.

Chris

There are so many to choose from but Ireally like the colours on our Blue Star Leopard wrasse. :biggrin:

Thanks for the input guys. Many beauties in there! I should also mention that I already have a McKoskers, and plan on getting a 6 line. I really like the style on the Melanarus, and Mystery. The Leapards are nice too. I'll have to do a little reading on all of my fav's when I have a chance.

I just ordered up a couple of marine fish books... hope they have good sections on wrasses, angels and anthias. I need to choose a wrasse, and angel, and a group of anthias that will work for my tank... hopefully!

Definetly leaning towards either a Melanarus, Ruby Head, or a Blue Star Leopard. BEAUTIES! We'll see what ends up available first... once I'm ready.

I have a Melanurus in my tank and a trio of McCosker's Flasher Wrasses. Melanurus aren't always reef-safe, mine leaves my Peppermint shrimp and Emerald Crabs alone, but has feasted on a few snails. The McCosker's are worry-free.

Well if ya wanna be technical .....nothing in this hobby is written is stone when it comes to fishy behavior:wink:..... Lots posts mentioning the fairy wrasse group and while for the most part they are reef safe, I watched mine(lineatus) attack a peppermint shrimp...... So far my melenarus has been a good boy.... Hope he stays that way

Hawaiian flame wrasses are a favourite of mine (although haven't quite managed to pony up the $$$ for a pair yet .. one day though!)

plus 10 on this one. They are beautiful!

Melanurus are commonly known to be a threat to invertebrates though.

dont ya just love the internet and its mass cluster f of info?.....:wink:

I tend not to trust most websites that sell fish with their descriptions of fish.....when I went to buy mine most of the research from forum posts were positive and only the odd person had issues with them.....heres a pretty good article from reefkeeping magazine

http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/curren...-fish-profile-