yellow coris or two spot hogfish?

[malawinovice]

I have 75 mixed reef with this occupants

two oc clowns
orchid dotty back
lepard wrasse

cleaner shrimp
peppermint shrimp


Looking to add

flame angel
xmas wrasse


My question is which of the two yellow fish?

yellow coris or two spot hogfish?

 

[L8 2 RISE]

I plan on having both in my 75, but if i had to pick one, the hogfish.

 

[malawinovice]

I had heard that those fish would fight any new comers of a similar shape and color.

I want more wrasses but dont want a war with a new comer.

 

[A sea K]

Yellow Coris (H. chrysurus) gets my vote for sure.
Well suited to a reef aquarium, vibrant yellow color and mine has been an absolute model citizen for over three years now.

No firsthand experience with the X-mas wrasse but I've been told they can get aggressive, my Y coris has always been passive and keeps to himself so I would suggest to add the Y coris first and give him time to acclimate before adding the X-mas. Provided of course that you decide to go with the Y coris.

 

[malawinovice]

any one mix multiple H species of wrasses?

Like an radiant wrasses?

I like the wrasses, but have an semi open top. The front is open for feeding and maintenance chores.

 

[KafudaFish]

Only have experience with the yellow. He may be one of my favorite fish of all time.

When he is out he is actively hunting swimming in and out of the rock work. Also he swims all over the tank and will disappear throughout the evening only to reappear later on. Not sure if that makes sense but I like it when fish "come and go" vs. being plastered against the front glass all the time.

 

[A sea K]

any one mix multiple H species of wrasses?

Like an radiant wrasses?

I like the wrasses, but have an semi open top. The front is open for feeding and maintenance chores.

I have 3 in my 210. H.chrysurus {Yellow Coris, H. iridis {Radiant, and H.biocellatus no common name that I Know of. Definately not a problem until they get mature. My Radiant is the largest and most dominant of the 3, he has also become more aggressive and between his harrassing of the other two wrasses and his greedy feeding habits it has become time to remove him. Aside from that all of them have been very good tankmates, I even have some tiny sexy shrimp and have never seen the wrasses attempt to eat them, not always the case though for most other folks.
BTW, I chanced into the Biocellatus and he is a beautiful fish. It was the only time I have ever seen one at the LFS before or since I got him and I would reccomend him over the Radiant.

 

[iamwrasseman]

yellow coris would be my choice .

 

[29reef]

For your tank size I suggest a coris, twin spots can become punks in smaller tanks with only a few tankmates.