Six Line Wrasse Question

Moort82 said:
Although I love them (see my post above), the truth is if you add one you will likely need to strip the tank to get it out should you need to. A better or less troublesome replacement would be a Pseudocheilinops ataenia which peacefully coexist with anything but just aren't as pretty.
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I never had trouble to catch mine with a trap that had a mirror at its end. Their aggressiveness works against them here.
 
Nina51 said:
i have this guy, a vrolik's wrasse, in my 75g reef. he is a model citizen, eats flatworms (yay!) and is totally beautiful!!
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I have one too, best fish i have....

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ThRoewer said:
I never had trouble to catch mine with a trap that had a mirror at its end. Their aggressiveness works against them here.
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My friend had one he needed to catch and another in his frag tank. He devised a trap which used the other one as bait (created a space where it was trap at the back) and the resident didn't act aggressively towards it or come in the trap after it so I think you may have been lucky.
 
Thanks for all of the responses. Looks like a mixed bag on the six line so I am not going to roll the dice on that one. I had a melanurus for a couple of years but lost him to a swim bladder issue. He was huge, had great colors and got along with all of my fish. He did pick off some turbo snails when he could and that was the only downside. I didn't trust him enough to put any shrimp in either.

What about a Christmas wrasse? Anyone have any feedback on those? Looks they aren't quite as prone to going after inverts as some of the other Halichoeres.
 
Moort82 said:
My friend had one he needed to catch and another in his frag tank. He devised a trap which used the other one as bait (created a space where it was trap at the back) and the resident didn't act aggressively towards it or come in the trap after it so I think you may have been lucky.
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Another fish is something different than a mirror.
 
Moort82 said:
Yes you get sight, movement and smell with them so it should illicit a stronger reaction?
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No, another fish will usually try to avoid confrontation, especially when trapped. A mirror reflection will not make any appeasing gestures and that will infuriate the real fish even more.
Also a trapped fish may scare these guys off as they have a very keen sense of danger.
The only thing that has ever worked for me was the mirror, but that worked reliably with several of these guys I had.
 
I've always been from the six lines are killers school as well, but I put one in my 93 cube Saturday for flatworm control. So far no troubles with my little gobies, yellow coris wrasse, target mandarin, or others.
Wish me luck.
 
mastersonr said:
What about a Christmas wrasse? Anyone have any feedback on those? Looks they aren't quite as prone to going after inverts as some of the other Halichoeres.
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Depends what you mean by "Christmas wrasse".
If Halichoeres claudia, then yes - that would be suitable.
If Halichoeres ornatissimus, then no - the species gets rather aggressive as it ages and tends to really like motile inverts.
If Halichoeres biocellatus (more commonly called the red lined wrasse), then this would also be okay.

If Christmas wrasses refers to something else, than probably not.
 
evolved said:
Depends what you mean by "Christmas wrasse".
If Halichoeres claudia, then yes - that would be suitable.
If Halichoeres ornatissimus, then no - the species gets rather aggressive as it ages and tends to really like motile inverts.
If Halichoeres biocellatus (more commonly called the red lined wrasse), then this would also be okay.

If Christmas wrasses refers to something else, than probably not.
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I was referring to the Halichoeres claudia as the Christmas wrasse. Red Lined wrasse would be fine too. I don't see those as often at my LFS. Yes, I will stay away from Halichoeres ornatissimus.
 
My vote is for malanurus wrasse if you need a reef pest patrol. Not as good at it as 6 line but gorgeous fish and not overly aggressive. If last added especially. Always exceptions though. Good luck

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I have had six line in all of my tanks, in my last tank he picked on a damsel but not anyone else. In my new tank he hangs out with the coral beauty and bothers no one at all.

Depends on also who runs the tank, in my tank the clown fish run the tank, my puffer at one point was trying to bully the 3rd lonely clown but the paired clowns put him in his place. Now law and order is in place. I even get whacked by the smaller clown when i service the tank, he gets angry if my hand is close to my leather coral he is hosting
 
ended up getting another melanurus and also picked up a canary wrasse too. all our getting along great. Glad I did not start WWIII by adding a six line...
 
johnike said:
I've always been from the six lines are killers school as well, but I put one in my 93 cube Saturday for flatworm control. So far no troubles with my little gobies, yellow coris wrasse, target mandarin, or others.
Wish me luck.
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We are selling squares at spring break for when the destruction begins, how many do you want? ;)
 
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