any info on green dragon wrasse

[jakano]

does anyone know anything about green dragon wrasse? byerlys has one for sale and he is one of the coolest fish i have seen. i would like to put him in my reef but i am worried about any damage he could do. i know he might whack snails and crabs but other that that will he do any other damage. i tried google but couldnt really find any info.

 

[asnatlas]

dragon wrasse????

dr'sagon wrasse

Dragon Wrasse

wetwebmedia.com (rockmover)

 

[asnatlas]

Also found this...

fishsupply.com (info)

Reef Compatibility: Not Reef Safe.

 

[Norm R]

If it's the one pictured in the wetwebmedia link, I kept one years ago. From my experience, absolutely NOT reef safe. I had it in a FO but I believe it would devour any clean-up crew you have and guessing corals also. They also grow very fast. Cool fish, just not for a reef IMO.

 

[jakano]

here is another thread i asked this in and here is a pic of the fish. i dont know how to copy his picture on this thread. it also goes by the name of seagrass wrasse.


http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=792300

 

[Norm R]

I've kept both of those wrasses. The top one is the one I was commenting on before. The 2nd one may well be reef-safe, not certain. I don't recall any tendencies that would sway me either way. It seems like the 2nd one appeared here in a CORA thread about a year or so ago. I believe there was thought that it was good for eliminating a pest but can't recall what the pest was. nudis? flat worms? Maybe someone tried it and can comment on the ability to keep it in a reef.

 

[asnatlas]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6903199#post6903199 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jakano
i dont know how to copy his picture on this thread. it also goes by the name of seagrass wrasse.

This one ??

 

[xdusty6920]

yeah they are awesome looking fish. not much info on thier reef compatibility out there though

 

[jakano]

yeah thats the one shawn. how did you copy those? i know it is something very simple that i am overlooking.

 

[asnatlas]

You right click on the pic, properties, then highlight the full Address: (URL) and when you post use the IMG button above the reply field and paste that "link" URL into there and your good to go

 

[Hormigaquatica]

The wrasse is semi-reef safe, in that it will likely eat shrimp and crabs, possibly snails, but wont bother most corals. The only real danger to corals would be to smaller frags of something on the sand bed- ie zoa frags or tiny SPS that the fish could pick up and throw around while looking for food. They wont eat coral itself though. As mentioned in another post, they enjoyed a big boost in popularity about a year ago (?) when someon on RC found that they eat montipora and acropora eating nudibranchs... they just neglected to mention that they would take out crustaceans too.

Novaculichthys macrolepidotus

 

[thebrian]

I believe this wrasse is one that is known for eating nudis. It is hit or miss on if it will eat them though - if it eats them, it will eat them all, if not, too bad. It will also eat other stuff too though...I remember a thread from the zoanthid forum about it eating zoo eating nudis.

 

[thebrian]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=533167