Where's the fairy wrasse?

[CoralNerd]

Any fairy wrasse available?

I'm thinking about the Orange-Back Fairy Wrasse.

Has anyone ever had this wrasse, if yes, what's your experience with the fish, and where did you get it?

(Cirrhilabrus aurantidorsalis)
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+1398&pcatid=1398

To me this looks like the wrasse to get.

Dont be afraid, all fairy wrasse lover comments welcome LOL

 

[Nina51]

i have a red velvet fairy wrasse i got from LA. he's a beauty and very peaceful.

 

[albano]

IME, the Orangeback has never held 'great color' for very long. Red Velvets are beautiful fish, that I've kept without problems, although many people list them as aggressive.

 

[eatbreakfast]

C. aurantidorsalis is a peaceful fairy wrasse. I agree with albano regarding their color loss.

 

[Ricks_Reef]

I have an orange back wrasse and he is beautiful. Temperament wise he has been really great with my gobies, tang and chromis and in general a pretty social fish. He has left all my coral alone and even my hitchhiker snails and feather dusters. I keep them well fed with cyclopeeze. He is actually my favorite in my tank. If you can get the wrasse past the shipping shock Id think it'd be a great addition. Now it is worth noting if you get a female the colors might not be as interesting.

 

[albano]

I have an orange back wrasse and he is beautiful. Temperament wise he has been really great with my gobies, tang and chromis and in general a pretty social fish. He has left all my coral alone and even my hitchhiker snails and feather dusters. I keep them well fed with cyclopeeze. He is actually my favorite in my tank. If you can get the wrasse past the shipping shock Id think it'd be a great addition. Now it is worth noting if you get a female the colors might not be as interesting.

Fairy wrasses should all get along with most other types of fish and be fine with corals, snails and feather dusters...while a female may be less colorful, it will most likely be cheaper to purchase, and should eventually turn male. Some male fairy wrasses (often w/Blue colors) will fade out.

 

[brett559]

I have a solon fairy wrasse. Gets along great with my melanarus wrasse, tangs and others. Eats like a champ. Beautiful fish - mine is a male:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+369&pcatid=369

 

[kkiel02]

Ill never buy another lubbocks fairy. Ive had two and they have been bad bullies. I had the orange back fairy wrasse like you posted in the original post but he was killed by the lubbocks. This is in a 375 gallon display tank. They are the damsels of fairy wrasses ime. I have a pair of bluesided, a pink margin, yellow fin, ruby head fairy wrasses in the same tank and he leaves them be along with a radiant and a possum wrasse. These were all added together to reduce aggression but this one hated my orange back and the previous one I had hated all wrasses added after him. Luckily he was caught and went back to the LFS. Maybe I just got unlucky twice in a row but they wont be in my tanks again...

 

[CoralNerd]

The verdict is I'm getting a female Red Head Solon Fairy Wrasse & a Yellow Corris Wrasse...introduction to the tank together tomorrow night. 85g

Other tank mates Yasha goby yellow watchmen, who share a home with a pistol shrimp. And my first fish I got who lives in a separate home purple firefish.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Beware that in many instances a different species of fish is sold as female solorensis. If you use the LA pic as reference, the fish they have pictured as a female solorensis is actually a male C. cf. cyanopleura. So if you get that fish and are expecting it to transition into male solorensis coloring, that will never occur.

 

[CoralNerd]

@earbreakfast
I thought the colors seemed brighter than the Live Aquaria false male no wonder. I plan to get the male Red Head Solon Fairy Wrasse and also put in two Yellow Coris Wrasse.