Multiple male flame wrasse compatibility
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I told Anthony you need to pull one or two. Chasing is one thing... scales flying is bad!
Now, are these issues just w/ the same species/species that look similar? I was hoping to combine a few small tanks into a 93 gallon cube, but that would mean housing a Lubbock's and a Longfin Fairy wrasse together. They are both males. The Lubbock's is from the Phillipines and is therefore pinkish-orange w/ the purple stripe, while the longfin is red and white. I wouldn't want one of them to be compelled to jump....
He's in perma-flash mode lately.... looks exhausting :lol:
Thanks! No, it's actually the big male, bought as a big male, which has remained dominant. Had he not finally adjusted to captivity when he did, however, I think the newly changed male would have ousted him in short order.
OK, here's the situation. What would you do?
I came home from work today to find the large male looking pretty beat up, with an especially harsh looking wound on his forehead. Kind of looks like he tried to spend the night sleeping in the vortech
I am assuming the other male flame did this, BUT I've seen no aggression between them this weekend, nor any now since I've been home. But I have to assume it was the other male, not sure how the large one could get so ragged in a day otherwise.
1. Do I wait to see if there is any aggression? Assuming it was the other male, how does that work? Once dethroned, does the old one become submissive, or does it just get killed.
2. If I remove one, which one would you remove?
I came home from work today to find the large male looking pretty beat up, with an especially harsh looking wound on his forehead. Kind of looks like he tried to spend the night sleeping in the vortech
I am assuming the other male flame did this, BUT I've seen no aggression between them this weekend, nor any now since I've been home. But I have to assume it was the other male, not sure how the large one could get so ragged in a day otherwise.
1. Do I wait to see if there is any aggression? Assuming it was the other male, how does that work? Once dethroned, does the old one become submissive, or does it just get killed.
2. If I remove one, which one would you remove?
Well, I think I'm going to have to take back what I said. After watching the fish closely for two days, there is zero aggression going on. Furthermore, the damage to the large male was strange. Large gash on the forehead, weird body damage, but no ripped fins at all. Would this still be consistent with an attack from another wrasse? At this point I'm thinking the fish jumped, hit something, got stuck somewhere, whatever... but eventually made its way back into the tank.
ShrimpChipGal
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Hard to say, P. The rhomboid did the same, jumped hit the net pretty high and then i think hit light fixture and bounced back into tank. He had lots of scales missing on the body but spooked himself and shredded fin as well.
ShrimpChipGal
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They attacked body (the whole scales flying thing). They did it for days especially with atinics on. Although after that jumping the dominance is reversed now and no more fighting between the two. It's the tangs' turn. Grr...
Well, about 2.5 years later, and I'm left with 1 male 
The original male ended up getting constantly intimidated by the newer one, and one day turned into a swimming zombie... bumping into rocks, flying around in the flow. After 3 weeks of this I pulled and euthanized him. Then the second female in line turned male and killed number #1. Number two got some sort of bacterial infection of the mouth, and died, leaving female #3, which is now a submale.
He happily cruises the tank, displaying, to heaven only knows who or what :lol:
Lame... I will never buy a harem of fairy wrasses...
The original male ended up getting constantly intimidated by the newer one, and one day turned into a swimming zombie... bumping into rocks, flying around in the flow. After 3 weeks of this I pulled and euthanized him. Then the second female in line turned male and killed number #1. Number two got some sort of bacterial infection of the mouth, and died, leaving female #3, which is now a submale.
He happily cruises the tank, displaying, to heaven only knows who or what :lol:
Lame... I will never buy a harem of fairy wrasses...
reefjunkie42
Wrasse junkie
it seems after awhile they all turn male
