keeping multiple wrasse

[motojoe1988]

So I have
1 pair of occ clowns
1 purple firefish.
1 blue tuxedo urchin
2 cleaner shrimp
5 bta anemones
1 tailspot bleenie.
I would like to add 3 or 4 wrasse and be done with my fish stocking.
Its a 4ft 60 gallon tank.
My questions would be how many females to 1 male ratio and what other wrasse can I keep together?
Im thinking about these wrasse for sticking my 60 gallon.
#1.
Orange-Back Fairy Wrasse*(Cirrhilabrus aurantidorsalis)
2#
Exquisite Fairy Wrasse*(Cirrhilabrus exquisitus)
3.
McCosker's Flasher Wrasse*(Paracheilinus mccoskeri)
These are the wrasse I'm considering! Please help with the amount of females to males I can have and which is more recommended then the others Thanks fellow reefers!

 

[motojoe1988]

Anyone with wrasse want to chim inn? Any successful experiances? With what species? How many females? Any aggression? Towards other fish?

 

[DustyReefer]

I currently have two wrasse in my 90. One is a solorensis fairy wrasse, and the other is a leopard. Whilst the big fairy is much more aggressive than the leopard I added the leopard first due to the fact that it is a much less aggressive fish. As for the three species of wrasse you listed, if you were to add all three I believe the mccoskers would receive some aggression from the others since it is a rather small species. As per the female:male ratios... Best to get information from someone with more experience keeping pairs and such. IMO in a 60 gallon tank you should probably only put one wrasse in. MAY be able to get away with two, but don't quote me on that.

 

[XxreeffreakxX]

I would be careful adding any wrasse to your system. I have a 75 with. A yellow tang and a pair of blacker ice and I added a sixline , worst thing I could have ever done , the wrasse started harassing my clowns within 5 minutes of being I there and he was small. Just a tip. It took me 3 days to get him out.

 

[jt_milstead]

Those wrasses should be fine, accept I would personally be concerned about the flasher wrasse. I would watch aggression from the other wrasses since it will be smaller than the others. If you have plenty of structure/hiding places it should be fine.
I would avoid a sixline. Those get agro.

 

[frankyrivera]

I would skip the mccosker and go with the others fairy wrasse usually do well. I have 5 wrasses in a 75 gal and believe it or not my clowns are the aggressive ones towards the wrasse. The solenarus wrasse can chase a little but not too bad

 

[frankyrivera]

Here's my gang

Solar wrasse
Yellow coris wrasse
Leopard wrasse
Lubbock wrasse
Hawaii flame fairy wrasse

 

[arkaeus]

Just my experience, I added my Lubbucks with 2 flasher wrasses. Few months later I added 3 more flashers and he was killing them. I would add 3 wrasses at a time and sure enough he would pick one off at a time. Took me cornering him on the left side of the tank, putting up a wall divider, taking out all the rock on that side, then removing him.
one thing I have seen is putting the wrasse in a holding tank inside the tank. Leave him in there a week so all the other fish get used to him.
Next I have seen someone put up mirrors around the tank to distract the aggressive wrasse

 

[motojoe1988]

Ok anyone have any males and females in their tanks that want to share some experiance? How many females? what species? etc.

 

[betamed]

I would add the flasher first and the other two at the same time.