Wrasse Combos

[arammell]

Hey could you all let me know what combination of wrasses you are currently keeping in your tanks and the sizes of your tanks.

I love these fish so much and would like to keep as many as possible. This is my Wrasse wish list in order of most favorite to least favorite (even though I love them all)

What order would you add them ?
Which ones cannot coexist?
Which species need to be in a pair or group in order to show their best and true colors?
There are some expensive fish on this list so I will have to add them over time, but these are the ones I want!
Most of these fish stay relatively small so I thought I could get away with it eventually.

I have a 210gal mixed reef by the way...

Rhomboid
Radiant
Mystery
Laboutei
Leopard
Flame
Lineatus
Melanarus
Possum
Blue Flasher
Mccoskers Flasher
Balteatus

Thanks guys!!!

 

[buzzbombtom]

mixing fairies and flashers is aok but outside of those two it can get sketch. ALL of the fish listed from what i can see color/display better with females in the system. you may have a problem keeping the leopard and radiant together, they can both go for the same food. and not to mention that leopards dont tend to do exelent in reef systems. flame should be last. or maybe the mystery though i would stay away from that fish.

 

[A sea K]

I currently have 3 Halichoeres wrasses; Yellow Coris, Radiant, and a Twospot(H. biocellatus) along with 2 Lubbock's Fairy wrasses in my 210.
All of the Halichoeres wrasses are 4" or better and the Twospot is the newest addition at 4 weeks now and have had the Y. coris for 15 months.
I used to have 2 McCoskers as well but lost both to carpet surfing.

 

[snorvich]

For these fish you must have a covered tank and I do NOT mean eggcrate as it will not keep them in. Of the fish you mentioned, Mystery may be problematical and I would add flame wrasses last. Blue flasher is mildly more aggressive than McCoskers. However there are some other really cool flasher wrasses . . .

 

[snorvich]

As for what I have . . .

Fairy Wrasses:

Adornatus
Bathyphilus
Earlei
Johnsoni
Jordani
Katherinae
Lineatus
Pylei
Rhomboidalis
Pintail

Flasher Wrasses

Carpenteri
Filamentosus
Mccoskeri
Rubricaudalis

Ooops, forgot since it is not a fairy/flasher. I do have a possum wrasse. Somewhat cryptic but a cool fish.

 

[Chibils]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12831545#post12831545 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by buzzbombtom
mixing fairies and flashers is aok but outside of those two it can get sketch. ALL of the fish listed from what i can see color/display better with females in the system. you may have a problem keeping the leopard and radiant together, they can both go for the same food. and not to mention that leopards dont tend to do exelent in reef systems. flame should be last. or maybe the mystery though i would stay away from that fish.

With leopards, just make sure the mouth isn't damaged before purchase. When stressed, they'll pick at the bag and often damage their mouths. Ask the vendor to bag it with a few inches of sand for it to bury in. Once settled in, they do okay.

 

[JStorey]

In my 300 gallon I have a mystery, exquisite, filamented, lubbocks, blue sided fairy, solar and a melanarus. All get along great with no problems.

 

[skydragon]

for me i have the Lineatus Fairy Wrasse. Hawaiian Flame Wrasse. Rhomboid Golden Fairy Wrasse. Red Margin Fairy Wrasse. and 2other small wrasse. i take my Mystery out because my kicking all my wrasse butt. they all doing just find in my 120g tank

 

[skydragon]