Fairy wrasse Photo Library

[shane 1111]

should i put bolth the new ones in my 50?

 

[shane 1111]

bolth flames are the same size

 

[shane 1111]

i dont know what to do.. i dont know whear the other wrasse sleeps.
he is not being let out of a corner of the tank

 

[shane 1111]

i have a 6 gallon should i put the flame in there?

 

[cheeks69]

I would shut the lights off and let them settle a bit, if the aggression doesn't subside in the next couple of days then your going to probably have to remove one.

 

[bronco7777]

Shane,

I believe you said earlier that these were flame fairy wrasses? Not quite. From the last picture they look like some form of a social fairy or conde. Turn out the lights and let them sleep and settle down a bit. If they continue to fight a day from now then you've likely put together two similarly sized males together...which is a no no in the fairy wrasse world. You may need to return on or separate them.

Fairy wrasses do not decimate pod populations. All I have practically is fairy wrasses in my tank and I have a small mandarin I saved from an ignorant Petco getting fatter each day. I've now had that mandarin for almost two years.

 

[shane 1111]

i put a net in the tank just below the water like an inch to get the one starting the fight out and put some food in it but the flame is in there eating!

 

[cheeks69]

Bronco have you noticed any of your Wrasses pick at the rocks or is your experience that they're strict planktivores ? Mine have not decimated my pod population it's remained steady.

 

[shane 1111]

the other wrass is a social fairy. the new one has a compleatly diffrent shape to his body.

 

[CrazyLionfish]

That doesn't look like a flame wrasse to me either, but good luck with them either way!

 

[shane 1111]

darn it! what ever i still like him.
i got the social out and put him in the 6 gallon nano. when do i put the social back?
and how do all of you guys have more than one wrasse? or is this not common

 

[sethd12]

is that a flame wrasse? that doesnt look like one to me but i might be mistaken.

 

[shane 1111]

ok i think they may be REDFIN FAIRY WRASSE (Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis )
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Females of this species are orangish-red over the upper half of the head and body, with a white belly, a faint bluish spot at the base of the caudal fin and pale red median fins. The caudal fin has yellowish rays, with reddish membranes between and white flecks along the margins. Males are orange with yellow on the ventral surface of the head and body. The ventral surface of the head also has bright blue and black markings, there are light blue spots on the operculum and on the tips of the pectoral fins, the dorsal, pelvic and anal fins are bright red and the anal and dorsal fins have bright blue margins. The redfin fairy wrasse is closely related to the longfinned fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis); the females of these two species are similar in color, but the latter species has fine blue pin-stripes.

this is off of coralrealm

 

[shane 1111]

he is swiming around happy now

 

[sethd12]

ok, im glad to hear that you had success!!!

 

[sethd12]

when you introduce a new fish i always turn the lights off anyways to make all the other fish go to sleep and then they wont have any idea that i put a new fish in, and by the next morning, they have usually forgotten. i wouldnt put the other one back until the new one has been in there for at least a week and it very aggressive eating and things.

 

[shane 1111]

the one in my other tank is not in as good shape. he has a film over one eye

 

[shane 1111]

he wont sleep. he is fliping out trying to jump out of the tank.

 

[sethd12]

turn off the light and leave it off until he calms down

 

[shane 1111]

well i know he is alive but he wont come out and my other one in the 50 i cant find