oneradtek202
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
heres my new melanurus wrasse, my gf named it snowflake:sad2:
New melanurus wrasse
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smcfall176
New member
Thats a sharp fish. Good photography also.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
juvi? Great pix.
chrisqueenz
New member
Are these reef safe?
Capt_Cully
Active member
Supposed to be great little fish. Eat FW's. Not as nasty as 6 lines or others to my knowledge. Reef safe.
oneradtek202
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
ya id say late juvi, also a female
these wrasses can get along with other wrasses added to the tank too, as long as the one u add is a nice one lol
these wrasses can get along with other wrasses added to the tank too, as long as the one u add is a nice one lol
oneradtek202
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
kinda odd, but it has a wierd looking side, im assuming its just a scrape or something because its very healthy acting and looking other wise...any thoughts?
mr86mister
Saltaholic
Wow, looks fantastic Brandon! Great addition, though the sixline will still be missed.
nwrogers
Got gorgs?
I had a male and he ate a lot of snails and other clean up crew items. That never bothered me. Mine also did not seem to get alone with the other wrasses. Within 6 months of adding he had killed all of my fairy and flasher wrasses. Other than that he was a great fish!
oneradtek202
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
everyone has a different experience with fish. Im hoping since its one of the last fish added and female, that it will be a nice fish. so far, hasnt been bothered and is actually getting bullied, not bad though, a little by the gramma and purple tang.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
I was hoping Nate would chime in 
The first time I ever heard of this species was at a (now defunct) place called Harbor Aquatics in Indiana. Joy and her husband used to run the place and (incidentally) they were contributors to the SPZ reef aquarium.
Anyways, the point of my story is that they used melanurus in their tanks to control pests. One problem with the species, though: as they mature they might pick on desirable invertebrates.
Looks like a laceration from handling on this fish. I'll bet it recovers quickly.
The first time I ever heard of this species was at a (now defunct) place called Harbor Aquatics in Indiana. Joy and her husband used to run the place and (incidentally) they were contributors to the SPZ reef aquarium.
Anyways, the point of my story is that they used melanurus in their tanks to control pests. One problem with the species, though: as they mature they might pick on desirable invertebrates.
Looks like a laceration from handling on this fish. I'll bet it recovers quickly.
iamwrasseman
New member
nice catch there ,he will be a great addition to any tank . well maybe not a shark display tank .
oneradtek202
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
thanks graves, canon rebel t1i and canon 100mm macro lens
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
you don't need a deep sandbed but you should have some sort of sandbed somewhere in it's aquarium.
oneradtek202
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
ditto
nwrogers
Got gorgs?
Since it is so small it may be some time before you see the same things I was seeing and hopefully you may never. To be honest it didn't really bother me. That fish was cooler than either of my fairy wrasses or my flasher wrasse put together. It wiped out my zoanthid eating nudibranchs and my infestation of pyramidellid snails (that is what I bought it for). Then when it finished them it ate 80% of my amphipods, stomatella snails, and brittle stars. Then when it finished all of those it could find it ate all of my Astraea Conehead Snails. Then when it finished them it ate all of the turbo snails it could pluck off the rock. You could hear it from the other side of the house! It would pop them off the rock then grab a hold of the base and smash them on the glass until they didn't know where they were. Then he would take a few more bites and leave the rest upside down to rot and waste away. Even with all of this it was still worth it. I called him the protector of my reef. If there was a pest in the tank he would hunt them down and eat them. I enjoyed that. By the way I never saw him picking on the other wrasses but I suspect it was him. He was the only fish I added before all of my other wrasses fins started to appear all torn up. That eventually ended up with both of the fairies and the flasher disappearing for good. When I first got the fish I went around telling everyone that he was getting along with the other wrasses and he seemed to for a while. So I am just trying to set the record straight at least based on my experience. FWIW he never bothered any other fish in the tank, at least that I can recall. Here is a picture...
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