Xmas Wrasse + Shrimp Daddy pair

[jvannucc]

The Christmas Wrasse, notoriously a crustacean murderer, occasionally looks longingly at the Yasahashi and his diminutive cave dweller, a 3/4" pistol.

The xmas seems very tame, gorging himself on frozen foods each night as my wife dutifully tends to the pets.

The yasahashi seems to be an ideal shrimp benefactor, raising the alert with a dorsal flair and hovering over his spelunking companion, all the while grabbing tasty morsels and disgorging them into eager grips of the sundance shrimp.


So to keeping it real, the xmas wrasse is a nice and active addition to a very docile tank (ocs clown; also a tailspot, rainfords, clown,and neon gooby). The xmas provides that bit of swimming that lures all the other shy-guys into the open water column.

That being said, there would be a significant amount of moroseness given anything was to disrupt our contented cave couple.

The short version:

What are the odds that the our festive friend would put the kaibosh on our contented couple?

 

[LakeGirl]

Well, I couldn't have said it as eloquently as you have.

I'm wondering the same thing. I have a goby/pistol pair. Considering Christmas or melanurus wrasse.

Anyone have experience with these wrasse and pistols paired with a protector?

The LFS guy said that most fish will stay away from the pistol due to its nasty pinch. I'm not convinced.

Thoughts??

 

[jvannucc]

We eventually had to remove the Xmas wrasse. It would dive-bomb yasa.

Unfortunately the yasa eventually died, it never really recovered from the weeks we left the wrasse in there while trying to make sure we had to dismantle the tank to retrieve it.

Now we have another tiny yasa, but he isn't pairing with the shrimp. It could be a shy fish, or the fact that the shrimp is as big as the tiny fish!

Dunno, but either way we're steering clear of the bigger wrasses from now on.