chasekwe
New member
Hi Folks,
I currently have 2 beautiful Flasher Wrasse males (P. lineopunctatus & P mccoskeri).
They're both around 2.5" and very healthy and vibrant. However, the mccoskeri mercilessly chases and herds the lineopunctatus. He doesn't do anything that seems to severely jeopardize the fish, both fish have nice crisp fins and show no signs of stress.
I'm really the stressed one, because I don't like such constant strife in my little reef. You can't watch the tank for 15 seconds without the one chasing the other.
Currently, LA is selling female mccoskeri wrasses. I'm trying to decide what will be the best solution and was looking for some advice.
1. Keep both males, buy 1 female.
2. Sell the lineopunctatus, buy 1 female.
3. Sell the lineopunctatus, buy 2 females.
4. Sell the lineopunctatus.
I like the mccoskeri male better so if it comes down to only keeping one, it'll be him. My tank is 42g so I'd really rather not have a ton of realestate used up on just these wrasses.
My ideal solution would be option 1. I'm hoping that the male mccoskeri would be split his attentions more between the lineopunctatus and courting the female. However, maybe it'd just make him even more aggressive towards the competing male.
If option 1 won't work than option 2 would be preferable but I don't know if 1 female would thrive with a male or if she'd be too often bullied similar to the state of affairs in the tank right now.
Option 3 seems like the safest but it also requires me to have 1/2 of my total fish load for the tank taken up by mccoskeri wrasses and I'm not keen on this at all.
Option 4 is to just keep the male mccoskeri and add no other wrasses, will he ever flash anymore? And will he keep his amazing coloration?
Thanks!
I currently have 2 beautiful Flasher Wrasse males (P. lineopunctatus & P mccoskeri).
They're both around 2.5" and very healthy and vibrant. However, the mccoskeri mercilessly chases and herds the lineopunctatus. He doesn't do anything that seems to severely jeopardize the fish, both fish have nice crisp fins and show no signs of stress.
I'm really the stressed one, because I don't like such constant strife in my little reef. You can't watch the tank for 15 seconds without the one chasing the other.
Currently, LA is selling female mccoskeri wrasses. I'm trying to decide what will be the best solution and was looking for some advice.
1. Keep both males, buy 1 female.
2. Sell the lineopunctatus, buy 1 female.
3. Sell the lineopunctatus, buy 2 females.
4. Sell the lineopunctatus.
I like the mccoskeri male better so if it comes down to only keeping one, it'll be him. My tank is 42g so I'd really rather not have a ton of realestate used up on just these wrasses.
My ideal solution would be option 1. I'm hoping that the male mccoskeri would be split his attentions more between the lineopunctatus and courting the female. However, maybe it'd just make him even more aggressive towards the competing male.
If option 1 won't work than option 2 would be preferable but I don't know if 1 female would thrive with a male or if she'd be too often bullied similar to the state of affairs in the tank right now.
Option 3 seems like the safest but it also requires me to have 1/2 of my total fish load for the tank taken up by mccoskeri wrasses and I'm not keen on this at all.
Option 4 is to just keep the male mccoskeri and add no other wrasses, will he ever flash anymore? And will he keep his amazing coloration?
Thanks!
