Four Line Wrasse and Mandarins?

[ThRoewer]

Has anybody experience how Four Line Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus tetrataenia) and Mandarin fish get along?

I know that the Sixlines often don't tolerate Mandarins who they know from their common distribution area, but the Fourlines come from Hawai'i and should have never seen Mandarins before.

 

[Moort82]

I think the old cop out reply "depends on the individual" applies. I haven't added these two together as I try not to mix pod predators but remember a customer adding them together (they got the mandarin from another shop) and coming in saying the wrasse (who I believe was resident and fully mature) didn't take kindly to the addition. I believe it bit the mandarin and proceeded to swim around with it in its mouth.
not as showy or bold but a Pseudocheilinops ataxia might be a better option, or even a pair.

 

[evolved]

I wouldn't try it.

 

[3dees]

the problem is that the mandarin can't compete for food with other pod eaters. especially wrasses.

 

[snorvich]

I wouldn't try it.

Likewise.

 

[Moort82]

not as showy or bold but a Pseudocheilinops ataxia might be a better option, or even a pair.

Gotta love it when your computer changes what you wrote. Should obviously be P. ataenia. But like the above i'm not a fan of mixing pod predators.

 

[ThRoewer]

Food competition would be of lesser concern than aggression. I've seen sixlines picking mandarins to death so I thought maybe a 4-line would be less aggressive.
Seems not to be the case, so I won't risk it.