Top 10 or 15 wrasses?

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1. Australian Harlequin Tusk & Femininus Wrasse (Female)
2. Choati Leopard Wrasse
3. Blue Star Leopard Wrasse Female
4. Potters Wrasse
5. Mccoskers Flasher Wrasse
6. Regular Leopard Wrasse (female)
7. Juvenile Dragon Wrasse
8. Yellow Coris Wrasse
9. Flame Wrasse

Harlequin Tusk and Femininus are tied, I love them!
 

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Watched a National Geographic film once on Hammerhead Sharks. It showed how Hammerhead could use electrical impulses to detect prey buried beneath sand . The shark was doing his thing then flushed the sleeping buried wrasses .Boom ! Chomp ! A buried school of juvenial Pschychadelic wrasses disappeared a dozen at a time.
I literally screamed!!


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My all time favorite still the Femininus, Lineatus, Rhomboid but these on the bottom got me saying wow.

Gold flake wrasse ( not the best picture)

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Esquisite Pintail wrasse
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Anampses Lennardi Wrasse
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Who is in the tank with him and beating him up? They are not the toughest guys on the block, but in most cases should not be faring that badly.
had 2 carpenters take beatings from solar wrasse, when solar removed took beatings from mccoskers and lubbocks, carpenter now in 20g macroalgae tank..
 
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had 2 carpenters take beatings from solar wrasse, when solar removed took beatings from mccoskers and lubbocks, carpenter now in 20g macroalgae tank..

You need more wrasse! My wrasse have zero aggression issues in my 125:
2x reg leopard (m Melagris)
Male blue star (Bipartus)
Female blue star
Potters (Geofry)
Black leopard (m. Negronesis)
Ornate leopard (ornatus)
Choati leopard
Solar fairy
Scott's fairy
Lubbocks fairy
Exquisite fairy
Filamented flasher
Radiant
Yellow coris
Vroliks
 

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I think there is a good chance that it will be comparable to rubrisquamis as far as aggression goes.
 

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In no particular order...
Pseudocheilinus ocellatus- mystery
Macropharyngodon kuiteri-Kuiter's leopard (male)
Macropharyngodon geoffroy-potters
Cirrhilabrus jordani-Flame
Cirrhilabrus lineatus
Macropharyngodon meleagris-leopard (male)
Macropharyngodon bipartitus-blue star (female)
Novaculichthys taeniourus-Dragon
Halichoeres melanurus

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Cirrhilabrus lanceolatus

Also YES I had to look up most of the scientific names. But to tell you the truth I appreciate that. Always learning in this hobby.
 

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Cirrhilabrus cf. lanceolatus
Cirrhilabrus jordani
Paracheilinus bellae
Macropharyngodon vivienae
Macropharyngodon choati
Macropharyngodon geoffroy
Halichoeres claudia
Halichoeres melasmopomus (just the females)
Anampses femininus (both male and female (did you see that big male one on Diver's Den recently? I just about died of envy!))
Pseudojuloides zeus
Odax acroptilus (the males, at least; not sure what the females look like. They just have the coolest shape ever and I love their electric blue markings!)
 
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Great lists you're forcing me to look them up!

I think you're crazy for preferring female halichoeres melasmpomus/xanti (ear muff wrasse) females more than males! Males are show stoppers
 
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Really? Because according to the pictures of the two sexes here the females are the pretty pink ones, and the males are part-red, part-green. I find the pink much, much more attractive. (Though I grant that it could just be that those are bad photos of the males.) I also couldn't tell from the pictures of the males whether or not they had all those lovely patterns on the fins.

Oh, and I'd like to add Halichoeres burekae to my list; if the rather poor pictures on google are anything to go by, they are very lovely little fish indeed.
 
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You need more wrasse! My wrasse have zero aggression issues in my 125:
2x reg leopard (m Melagris)
Male blue star (Bipartus)
Female blue star
Potters (Geofry)
Black leopard (m. Negronesis)
Ornate leopard (ornatus)
Choati leopard
Solar fairy
Scott's fairy
Lubbocks fairy
Exquisite fairy
Filamented flasher
Radiant
Yellow coris
Vroliks
Yes, more wrasse! I agree!
but as it's only 60g cube w mccosker, Lubbock, negrosensis, meleagris, lineatus it may be pushing the limit, don't think any other wrasse would prove low aggression, and really wanna add my solar back in.. they all seem to single out Carpenter as only target.
so.. the wrasse saga continues..
until locate a bipartitus
 
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Really? Because according to the pictures of the two sexes here the females are the pretty pink ones, and the males are part-red, part-green. I find the pink much, much more attractive. (Though I grant that it could just be that those are bad photos of the males.) I also couldn't tell from the pictures of the males whether or not they had all those lovely patterns on the fins.

Oh, and I'd like to add Halichoeres burekae to my list; if the rather poor pictures on google are anything to go by, they are very lovely little fish indeed.

Most males are the pretty pink color, with a bit of other color and the females and juveniles are more washed out and "whitish"
 

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No particular order...

1. Halichoeres chrysus
2. Halichoeres iridis
3. Halichoeres melanurus
4. Macropharyngodon meleagris
5. Macropharyngodon geoffroy
6. Macropharyngodon negrosensis
7. Macropharyngodon bipartitus bipartitus
8. Paracheilinus mccoskeri
9. Pseudocheilinus ocellatus
10. Wetmorella nigropinnata
11. Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis
12. Cirrhilabrus tonozukai
13. Cirrhilabrus luteovittatus
14. Cirrhilabrus linneatus
15. Anampses femininus

 
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No particular order...

1. Halichoeres chrysus
2. Halichoeres iridis
3. Halichoeres melanurus
4. Macropharyngodon meleagris
5. Macropharyngodon geoffroy
6. Macropharyngodon negrosensis
7. Macropharyngodon bipartitus bipartitus
8. Paracheilinus mccoskeri
9. Pseudocheilinus ocellatus
10. Wetmorella nigropinnata
11. Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis
12. Cirrhilabrus tonozukai
13. Cirrhilabrus luteovittatus
14. Cirrhilabrus linneatus
15. Anampses femininus
Great list. Cool to see the "yellow coris" atop your list. Not a lot of yellow fish, especially wrasse! (Forget yellow tangs, reader). I love mine, he's probably my cheapest wrasse but I like him a lot!
 

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Great list. Cool to see the "yellow coris" atop your list. Not a lot of yellow fish, especially wrasse! (Forget yellow tangs, reader). I love mine, he's probably my cheapest wrasse but I like him a lot!
I've never had a tank without one, they have great personality and my wife and daughter love watching them.
 
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I've never had a tank without one, they have great personality and my wife and daughter love watching them.

I must admit that I am a big fan now that I have owned one
 

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