Chiseltooth Wrasse
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I think you are thinking of Larabicus quadrilineatus.
FranktheTankTx
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Bumpity bump
chipchip
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No, I am thinking of Pseudodax moluccanus. A friend of mine had 2 of them and both of them were eating polyps (SPS). Like I said, especially as juveniles.
eatbreakfast
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I had one for a couple of years. It started out as a juvenile, with a bright neon blue stripe running half the length of its body, and it served as a cleaner when young. As it grew it lost the stripe and resembled the fish in the picture.
My experience with it was that it was a model citizen. It payed no attention to any of the other fish housed with it, and never bothered inverts, from small hermits to cleaners and blood shrimp. IME it never bothered corals either. Even though they are supposed to get bigger, mine stopped growing at 6". It grrew to that size quickly, but stayed that length until he jumped out after I had him for 2+ yrs.
My experience with it was that it was a model citizen. It payed no attention to any of the other fish housed with it, and never bothered inverts, from small hermits to cleaners and blood shrimp. IME it never bothered corals either. Even though they are supposed to get bigger, mine stopped growing at 6". It grrew to that size quickly, but stayed that length until he jumped out after I had him for 2+ yrs.
FranktheTankTx
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Bummer on jumping out.
RustyBandit
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I have 2 chisletooth wrasse in my tank, bought them as a pair at a lfs. They were sold to me as purple wrasse but later found out they were chisletooth.
They have both been amazing fish,
One is about double the size of the other now but they were the same size when i bought them. Hoping its a male and female but havent been able to find any info on sexing them.
Super calm never had an issue with any other fish besides my blue strip cleaner wrasse kept attacking the smaller chisletooth. I removed the blue strip and put him in my frag system.
These chisletooth did an amazing job at getting rid of my flat worm issue, they were way over populated and now i have a hard time even finding one. Also its super cool these fish hunt as a team with my lawnmower blenny, the blenny munches on the rock and algae and the pods / bugs get launched up in the water where the chisletooth are waiting right above the blenny. Super cool to watch, i have noticed a few tips of sps been munched on which im sure is the chisletooth but it hasnt happened again since. I also have soooo many copepods and amphipods that they are never hungry so im sure that plays a big part in them not munching more coral.
They are both still in the juvi stage but starting to change red and loose the blue striping.
Also they sleep in the sand bed at night by darting them selves into the sand.
Heres some pics of them.
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They have both been amazing fish,
One is about double the size of the other now but they were the same size when i bought them. Hoping its a male and female but havent been able to find any info on sexing them.
Super calm never had an issue with any other fish besides my blue strip cleaner wrasse kept attacking the smaller chisletooth. I removed the blue strip and put him in my frag system.
These chisletooth did an amazing job at getting rid of my flat worm issue, they were way over populated and now i have a hard time even finding one. Also its super cool these fish hunt as a team with my lawnmower blenny, the blenny munches on the rock and algae and the pods / bugs get launched up in the water where the chisletooth are waiting right above the blenny. Super cool to watch, i have noticed a few tips of sps been munched on which im sure is the chisletooth but it hasnt happened again since. I also have soooo many copepods and amphipods that they are never hungry so im sure that plays a big part in them not munching more coral.
They are both still in the juvi stage but starting to change red and loose the blue striping.
Also they sleep in the sand bed at night by darting them selves into the sand.
Heres some pics of them.
Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk
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