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So, who else has been bitten by the Fairy/Flasher/Leopard Wrasse bug? PICS ADDED!!!!
I changed up my bioload/stocking plan and decided to go hard-core into reef-safe wrasses with my present setups. The nice thing is that if they get along, then you can keep more different colourful species of r-s wrasses than with the larger fish that I normally kept before.
Now I have: Blue flasher Filament flasher Carpenter's flasher Temminckii fairy Exquisite fairy 2 x Orange back fairy Solarensis fairy Lubbock's fairy Yellow Flank fairy Green wrasse Cleaner wrasse Ornate Leopard Leopard wrasse (2 reg. females) Potter's Leopard Surprisingly, almost all these wrasses get along (probably because I feed frequently and heavily). My baby girl, Isabella, loves to watch the colourful wrasses swimming around, which is one of the reasons I started this collection. I'm finding that as long as the new wrasse survives the initial harassment from the Candy Hogfish, then it hides for a day or two before joining the gang. The second female reg. Leopard Wrasse is still finding its way into the hierarchy but its eating mysis and I'm hoping that it's presence will trigger the other female (or itself) to morph into a male (green-blue colour) leopard wrasse. So, just wondering how many others are getting into these colourful little reef-safe fish? Anthony |
I'm with u anthony I love my wrasses u have some nice ones too
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You should get some pics up of all those together! Thats an impressive amount of wrasses to be held together.
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I really like the female Blue Star Leopard Wrasse
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Yep I'm in
Mystery Wrasse Wetmorella nigropinnata wrasse 2 Richmonds Juvenile wrasse Yellow flanked wrasse Blue lined Wrasse Melanarus wrasse and a pink body with white underside wrasse Have not been able to ID yet. By far some of my favorite fish. They have so much personality and you can tell they are stairing back at you. I have a few that I can pick up with my hand. Chris |
i have 2 leopards
2 labouti wrasses Mystery wrasse Yellow Coris wrasse Hawaillin flame wrasse male which I cant find. i want to add 2 more leopards carpenters wrasse clown wrasse flasher wrasse McCoskers too |
I have a male leopard wrasse that was a female when I got it. He changed over the course of about 2 months this summer. I'd like to add another one.
Also have a mystery wrasse that I picked up about 2 months ago - I love it! Over the years I've had a handful diffrent wrasses, and have had many jump out, so keep a lid on your set up! |
I have glass tops on all my tanks now. Lose some light but great for controlling evaporation and keep fish from jumping although I've picked up my Temminckii twice from the floor when it jumped through when I didn't put the lid on properly after feeding.
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I just got my first one, solar wrasse and he's awesome! Would love to see pics of what everyone has!
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Look up the lineatus wrasse
we sold a few and the customes love them |
So long as nobody asks me to kiss their wrasse I am happy with mine.:wink:
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Wow Anthony, you're really up to your ass in wrasses! :mrgreen:
That's an awesome collection you've got going there. Which tank is this? Not the old yellow tangs tank is it? |
Just got mu Lineatus from BWA and it's a beaut!!
Also has a Two-spot wrasse, H. biocellatus, and a female M. meleagris. Now hunting for a male. And wanting the Blue Star wrasses. If I ever have a chance to re-do, I'll go mostly wrasses, too!! Definitely got the bug!! |
blue stars are next week
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Wrasse are my fav too !!! :mrgreen:
I have a cleaner in each tank a 2 year old female leopard and wanting to add more very soon. |
Sold off the old "yellow tangs tank" a few months ago. Decided that instead of a few large tangs, my remaining systems will do better with smaller, more colourful fish. Luckily we have a couple of good LFS around here that order in a lot of different wrasses (for me:wink:).
Adding a Melanarus wrasse & maybe a Mystery wrasse during Boxing Day sales. Would love a Linneatus and Blue Star Leopard wrasse to add to my collection. PS. Picked up a true Exquisite Fairy Wrasse, a Yellow Flank Fairy, and a Potter's Leopard today. (Dangerous to be obsessive-compulsive and have credit at the LFS):wink: |
Heh, if it's off a credit, who cares :p Now if it's off a credit CARD that might be another matter.
I too have a soft spot for the wrasses particularly the fairy wrasses. But have had bad luck with jumping over the years, even on covered tanks. I had a nice pair of blue sided fairies that one weekend I was away the tank sitter forgot to close the lid one night and both of them jumped out. What are the odds. :( Lost a few other fairies over the years to jumping and the darn things just landing on the Eurobracing and not flippityflopping back into the water.Just lost a canary wrasse last night. Boo. :( Really is not a question of "hopefully they never jump" - forget it, they WILL jump at some point - you just have to hope they fall back into the water. Have a pair of flame wrasses now though which has me super excited! I'll try to post some pics later. |
I am a bigtime wrasseman......lubocks in the small tank......mystery, leopard and melenarus in the big tank......Ive pledged to not put any really expensive wrasses in this version of the tank, aside from the mystery..... Ive had a lineatus carpet surf before.....I like my tanks topless so I am still kinda rolling the dice....
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i really want a blue star and potter's leopard. strangely I'm not huge on the other styles of wrasses but i currently have two greedy as heck wrasses (leopard and melanarus) and want more. I also dig me the golden rhomboid.
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Lubbock's are fantastic little fairy wrasses!! Had one a while back, one of the few I didn't lose to jumping, but one of many I did lose to that stupid ritteri anemone and it's little trick of killing fish with its invisible death ray. :( I lost a rubriventralis that way too (another totally underrated fairy wrasse IMHO - have one right now and he displays like crazy. Looks awesome.)
But one habit he that he does have that has me right on edge - at around the time the lights go off, he's jumping for what appears to be the sheer fun of it. Nobody is chasing him, he's not going after food - he's just literally jumping and skipping over the water surface. Lasts about 5-10 minutes. I figure it's only a matter of time before this high-risk recreational jumping activity is going to end badly. :( I need to figure out how to get some netting up stat. |
OK. So some very quick pics. Just snapped off a few frames at low res. but no time to take really good pics of these very active fish.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...DSC_0077-1.jpg (Solorensis & Lubbock's) http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...DSC_0078-1.jpg Temmenckii fairy http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...DSC_0082-1.jpg Orange back fairy http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...DSC_0089-1.jpg Filament Flasher http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...c/DSC_0092.jpg Blurry pic of Leopard and Ornate Leopard http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...DSC_0097-1.jpg Yellow Flanked fairy |
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...c/DSC_0090.jpg
Another of Solorensis http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...DSC_0085-1.jpg Close up of Temmenckii http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...DSC_0081-1.jpg Another of Lubbock's |
Three pics of my "blue" flasher wrasse and a Mandarin goby just to spice it up.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...c/DSC_0098.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...c/DSC_0099.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...c/DSC_0100.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...c/DSC_0101.jpg |
I was bitten some time ago also, here are some of mine
Merry Christmas Wrasse http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1...2/DSC_2621.jpg Blue Margin http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1...2/DSC_9385.jpg Cleaner and Golden Rhomboid http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1...2/DSC_2610.jpg Naoko http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1...DSC_0957-2.jpg Golden Rhomboid http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1...2/DSC_2619.jpg |
Great, now I "need" more wrasses. Thanks Stacey:twised:
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I'm just getting in to them but so far I have a couple black leopard's & a line spot flasher. Can't wait to get more!
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This is a great thread! Everyones photos are stunning! I think I'm def getting a couple more fairy wrasses for my tank, it's one thing to look on line at these fish, another to see them in everyones tanks! Thanks for sharing and feeding the addiction!
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A very inquisitive fish. Becoming one of my favorite fish in the tank.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54382462/Mystery%20Wrasse.jpg |
theres a wrasse bug that bites???? thats it im dipping all my wrasses today thanks guys;ppppp
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Hand down my wrasses ( lubbocks, yellow 4 spot and ornate ) are by far my favorite fish . At least once a week i hear a splash , thud as my lubbocks bounces off the plexi top , so open top is a definite no go.
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Here's my 2 Black Leopard's http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...DSC_0018-2.jpghttp://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...DSC_0002-2.jpg |
Here's my picture contribution. Only have 1 wrasse; its a McCoskers. Its a great fish, eats everything and takes it from the surface, mid water and the bottom. Likes to display to the firefish and neon gobies (hopes to get cleaned but the neons don't seem to want to do any cleaning!). The white specks in the last photos are food particles.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...05-34_0013.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...27-36_0055.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...07-50_0051.jpg |
Tanks destiny is to be wrasse dominate.
Have labouts fairy, melanarous, mckosker flasher and line spot flasher. I'll post some pics tomorrow |
http://www.fishchannel.com/media/sal...asses.aspx.pdf
Here's an article on Fairy Wrasses by Scott W. Michael that some of you wrasse-aficionadoes might appreciate. Unfortunately, its purely text with no pretty pictures to go with the descriptions. |
here's another......with some pretty pics.... http://reefbuilders.com/2011/12/15/c...-fairy-wrasse/ .......break out the credit card:mrgreen:
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