Wrasse suggestion
 

I am looking to add a wrasse to my frag section, it's a bare bottom tank about 40 gallons with a pile of live rocks in one corner. I'm not looking for a beauty queen but rather a good hard nosed hunter. Any suggestions?

Your run of the mill Canary Wrasse is a hard worker. Inexpensive, very hardy and very common. Keep in mind that many of these wrasses like to burrow in the sand to sleep at night. Some will adapt and find crevasses in rock work instead but some don't.

I've had a melanarus in a bare bottom tank for 2+ years now. Used to sleep in the sand but he has his favorite crevise now.

Always looking for bugs and not too expensive. One of the better AEFW wrasses.

Just put a bowl of sand in there Jason. Mine used crevises in rocks but still ended up nose diving

Love that wrasse. And yes, a very very hard worker. Constantly picking things off rocks and corals (not polyps though). Mine hunts with my leopard wrasse. However, I would consider both the Melanurus and leopard wrasse beauty queens :-)

I did find the melonarous a little more agressive toward other wrasses but in frag tank it'll be fine

ya, my Mellonorous wrasse doesn't much like my Hawaiian flame wrasse but is fine with my leopard tagging along with him.

picked up a melanarous wrasse today.
Thanks guys

Great choice on the millanarus. Got pics?

no pics he's still hiding as soon as I walk in the room lol

I do recall my malinoris being very skittish at first but once acclimated he is very active!

just so were clear.......its melanaris right?:mrgreen::mrgreen:

Yes, that's what he got. Do you have a muluniras too?

Just as long as it's not melanoma ass

my malhanares is a nice ras, he has tank syndrome though were he just swims into glass over and over lol

Not making fun of anyone , just found it funny that out of 15 posts melanarus was spelled differently 9 times lol

:doh:

Lol I think it wasn't an accident

i thought there were 12 types of mulanorous wrasses?

yellow coris wrasse
 

:biggrin: i have a yellow coris wrasses in my reef tank and he hunts bristle worms and pods all day long leaves everything else alone

Is the melanurus wrasse safe with peppermint shrimp? Or should I say are peppermints safe with the wrasse?

It has been a model citizen. I saw a peppermint last night in fact.

We have one with a cleaner and fire shrimp and its been fine. Shrimp were in there first so I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not.

I want to get some new fish, maybe this wrasse, some gobies, and a few others. Also want to get some peppermints. So maybe I should get the peppermints first.

Also, with the melanurus wrasse, do they need fine sand to sleep in? My sand is more coarse, not the sugar sand stuff.

I have had 4 peppermint shrimp and 3 sexy shrimp co-exist with my Melanarus for a while now. And my sexy shrimp don't even hide.