What are your thoughts to mixing wrasse?

[hogfanreefer]

Why is it a bad thing to get female wrasse and the display part you mean to the other sex or out of aggression to one another?

Not a bad thing, just that for most the reason to get them (they are usually much more drab than the males) is to make the males display/keep their colors. That can be acccomplished just as easily with multiple males of different species. You get the colors/display without taking up bioload with dull uninteresting fish.

 

[Tjsmoot]

While hogfanreefer does make a good point that most people only buy the females to make the males display and keep their colors, I think it would be interesting to watch the interaction of the wrasses also with the benefit of the colors and displaying

 

[Shallow Reef]

ow right. I'm rubbish at identifying between the two so I will probably end up with one either way lol. I wouldn't mind but I will consider my stock levels balance it out.

Thanks for bringing that up hogfanreefer.

 

[Shallow Reef]

It has come down to my list.

Yellow Wrasse
Pencil Wrasse
Cirrhilabrus earlei Fairy Wrasse
Laboutei Fairy Wrasse

Would a cleaner wrasse survive in this tank?

I have given it some thought though and going to leave out the flasher wrasse and stock the four above. Before I start adding the group of wrasse in, I am going to allow the corals to grow out with plenty of hiding place for the fish to lurk in.

Whilst then I'll be stocking the norm like maybe a group of chromis and pair of clownfish, a twin-spot goby which I'll be homing with the wrasse. When the tank is ready full of coral growth, where there is enough bacteria to keep a group of 5 chromis, a pair of clowns and a goby healthy and alive, then I'll rehome the chromis and clowns and add all four Wrasse fish into the tank at once so there are no territory issues. I think it will be a good idea to get them together and quarantine them in my other tank before they go in. I'll keep them apart but they'll get to recognize each other.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Cleaner wrasses have mixed results as far as surviving in general, but as far as aggression goes there wouldn't be a problem.

The Labouti could be aggressive to the Earlei so I would add him last.

 

[Shallow Reef]

Thanks

I was planning to add them all at once unless its better for the Earlei to settle in before adding the Labouti?