scotts wrasse, a few questions before i buy them???

hlama

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hi everyone. well i have a order on hold right now for 3 scotts wrasses from cook island. i hear i should get 5. but dont want that many. i only really want to get the 1 females and 1 male, or all females and let nature pick who will be the male. anyway, mainly because of the price i am hoping 2 will work, but will get 3 of them if it will help. however i dont want to get have to get 5, just to much money for all them. can anyone give me some advice here. will 2 be cool, and if the male losses its coloration how much of his color will fade? so trying to avoid buying 5, will 3 be good or should just go with one fish. if so and its a female will it change to male with out a female present. these are med fish so most likely they will have already changed into one sex or another. i am not sure but i thought a supermale will not change back to a female, what about the normal males will they change back to female, if i happen to get 2 males? what do you think, buy just one, two or three.:confused:
 
your thinking too much into it ...if you want 2 then get 2. have other colorful fish or wrasses around and feed well --
what size tank are you going to have? if you put 5 scott's you would you have room for anything else?
 
i think your right, too much thinking. the tank is 72X18X20. not big enough to get 5, i dont think. maybe just get one. i have seen a few with no females around and they look colorful enough. will one scotts in there with some other wrasse species loss a lot of color or just fade a little some say i would not even notice, how ture is that??
 
I have not seen any females arriving yet - always only males and sometimes huge ones where I can clearly say theat the 10cm mentioned as size in Kuiters book are more lige 15cm !
 
My "Huge" Australian Scott's has not kept its vibrant colors that it first arrived with, even thought there is a medium male/female in the tank. I still like the fish, but the colors are just not the same.
 
Getting a female is problematical. I was lucky enough to get one but that is the exception with my LFS who specializes in fairy wrasses. Scott's will lose coloration although they will still be pretty fish.
 
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