Dragon Wrasse

[Zoaelite]

I would stay away from them If I were you, I had a similar species (The Red Corris) and every day I would come home to all of my corals and all of my frags flipped over. If you think catching an open water swimmer is hard try catching something that likes to hide in your sand (After 2 hours I finally caught mine in a 50g tank). Beautiful species but its called a Rock Moving wrasse for a reason.
Levi

[viperfish]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

I would stay away from them If I were you, I had a similar species (The Red Corris) and every day I would come home to all of my corals and all of my frags flipped over. If you think catching an open water swimmer is hard try catching something that likes to hide in your sand (After 2 hours I finally caught mine in a 50g tank). Beautiful species but its called a Rock Moving wrasse for a reason.
Levi

I know exactly what you mean. When I removed my Formosa Coris, I pulled every rock out of the tank and still couldn't find it.

[fishoholic]

I should mention it would be going into an open top 230g FOWLR tank that has a very aggressive lunare wrasse and a large miniatus grouper. My thoughts are that the dragon wrasse would be aggressive enough to hold it's own against my other fish. The rocks are pretty large in that tank so I guess I should be ok and there are no frags or corals for him to turn over. I also know that they change as they get older but I still like how they look.

Yes Dawn, I am thinking about the one we saw on Sat. that dragon wrasse has been there for over a month (almost 2 months I think) and he has a cool personallity at the store.

[noirsphynx]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

Yes Dawn, I am thinking about the one we saw on Sat. that dragon wrasse has been there for over a month (almost 2 months I think) and he has a cool personallity at the store.

He's cool! Sorta reminds me of our cool little weedfish

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by noirsphynx

He's cool! Sorta reminds me of our cool little weedfish

Ya that's what I was thinking. He also seems so personable, the 3 times I saw him at the lfs he came right up to the glass and swam around in front of me as if to say "pick me pick me, I need a good home to go too" I also think that he'd be a good choice for that tank considering the other fish I have in there. ie: my puffer most likely wont nip his fins, my trigger, king angel and foxface wont care about him because he's so different from them which leaves my grouper and lunare and hopefully the dragon would be aggressive enough that he'd be able to hold his own against them until they give up and leave him alone. I also still like how they look as an adult and I think it would be cool to see how he changes.

I'm mostly hesitating because it is an open top tank and from what I've read they are prone to jump. However my lunare hasn't so maybe he wouldn't either.