2 1/2 year old coris wrasse??? huge!!!

[CHSUB]

i got a small yellow coris wrasse about 2.5 years ago; now she is about 6 inches long and about 2 fingers thick, huge!!! i don't think it's a coris, but a female banana wrasse? no problems with her, she just cruises the tank..... question: would i be able to add a "true" coris wrasse? i have read banana's are aggressive, although i have never seen any aggressiveness from her. i have no other wrasses, maybe a "like" fish would bring out bad behavior?

 

[triggreef]

even a yellow "coris" that size will probably not welcome another wrasse. Post a pic if you can it is very easy to tell the 2 species apart. You may be okay with a wrasse from another family but at that size, it can go either way.

 

[Betta132]

We can probably give you a confirmed ID with a picture.

 

[CHSUB]

never seen a coris this big, colors on face lead me to believe it is not a coris, but not sure?

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[eatbreakfast]

That is a large, very mature H. chrysus, yellow coris wrasse.

 

[flamron]

Colors on the face mean it is very likely a male. I have one that is large as well, and he is aggressive towards others.

 

[CHSUB]

no saying you guys are wrong, but i can't tell the difference between mine and the female banana wrasse here, no black dot, colorful face and fins?


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[CHSUB]

could be this also...hard to tell difference? back to adding other wrasse, any ideas?

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[flamron]

Fwiw, I have two chrysus in my tank.

 

[BeanMachine]

could be this also...hard to tell difference? back to adding other wrasse, any ideas?

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My male yellow coris looks like this pic. Has the single black dot on the dorsal fin as opposed to the female which has 2 black dots and no coloring on the face.

 

[CHSUB]

mine could very well be a very large and colorful male coris. how about some ideas of tank mates, wrasse that stay smaller? female coris an option?

 

[eatbreakfast]

For identification look at the tail shape. T. lutescens has a lunate tail and H. chrysus has a rounded tail.

Any time you add a new wrasse to an established one I strongly recommend using a social acclimation box.

Best choices for wrasses would probably be a species not too closely related such as a fairy or flasher wrasse.

I would recommend against adding a female H. chrysus as wrasses do not form bonded pairs as some other fish do, but rather, gender roles are defined by submissive/dominant relationships.

 

[30g]

fiji christmas wrasse or 6 line ftw

 

[skanderson]

I have a male and female pair of the yellow wrasses in my tank. they have started to spawn recently and it is cool to watch. the are in a 700 gallon with a trio of melanurus wrasses, a trio of biocellatus wrasses, and a group of leopard wrasses, and a few flasher and fairy wrasses. the male is only around 3 inches long but does not seem to bother any of the other wrasses. he keeps his attention on the female. I do plan on adding at least one more small female to keep him busy. the micheal book lists their max size at 4.7 inches, but that is what the picture looks like to me. it is hard to accurately tell the size of the fish in a tank in my opinion.

 

[CHSUB]

For identification look at the tail shape. T. lutescens has a lunate tail and H. chrysus has a rounded tail.

Any time you add a new wrasse to an established one I strongly recommend using a social acclimation box.

Best choices for wrasses would probably be a species not too closely related such as a fairy or flasher wrasse.

I would recommend against adding a female H. chrysus as wrasses do not form bonded pairs as some other fish do, but rather, gender roles are defined by submissive/dominant relationships.

thx, that's it, without question a coris.

fiji christmas wrasse or 6 line ftw

LL has some interesting picks.

thx

I have a male and female pair of the yellow wrasses in my tank. they have started to spawn recently and it is cool to watch. the are in a 700 gallon with a trio of melanurus wrasses, a trio of biocellatus wrasses, and a group of leopard wrasses, and a few flasher and fairy wrasses. the male is only around 3 inches long but does not seem to bother any of the other wrasses. he keeps his attention on the female. I do plan on adding at least one more small female to keep him busy. the micheal book lists their max size at 4.7 inches, but that is what the picture looks like to me. it is hard to accurately tell the size of the fish in a tank in my opinion.

i have the same book, mike needs to revise size in this case! max size should be 6 inches.

 

[Daniel Machado]

CHSUB,

Looking at your pic...

never seen a coris this big, colors on face lead me to believe it is not a coris, but not sure?

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I can clearly see the reddish tail and the light spot behind the eye which can be seen in the yellow coris pic...

could be this also...hard to tell difference? back to adding other wrasse, any ideas?

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And can't be seen in the female banana wrasse pic...

no saying you guys are wrong, but i can't tell the difference between mine and the female banana wrasse here, no black dot, colorful face and fins?


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So I'd say you have a big and beautiful yellow coris, not a banana wrasse, as you already knew.

thx, that's it, without question a coris.

Best regards.

Daniel.

 

[RJT]

I have a large yellow wrasse, when I added a small yellow wrasse he ignored her except when another fish would harass her then he would chase the aggressor away. The mean fish are gone now. They don't hold hands but they are definitely not mated. All wrasses added after the large wrasse have been ignored by him which includes other halio, flashers, fairies and leopards.

 

[ben jammin]

From everything I have read, and in my own experience which is decent but not as extensive as others on this board, Halichoeres wrasses such as your "yellow coris" are pretty mellow and tolerant of other Halichoeres species, as well as other genus of wrasse. Certainly more tolerant of other congenetics than most Cirrhilabrus wrasses, for example. I have a H. melanarus with a much smaller red coris (a true coris, C. gaimard), a dragon wrasse, a smalltail pencil wrasse (Pseudojuloides cerasinus), a red velvet fairy, and an exquisite fairy, and other than occasional bickering between the two fairies when the exquisite was newly added, I have never seen the slightest hint of conflict between any of them.

Oh, I've got a tusk in there as well, but I'm not sure the other wrasses know he's a wrasse, so he doesn't count.