Mystery Wrasse, Five Bar Wrasse / Pseudocheilinus ocellatus

[swannyson7]

SCIENTIFIC NAME - Pseudocheilinus ocellatus

COMMON NAME – Mystery Wrasse, Five Bar Wrasse

SIZE – 5 in (13 cm)

MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 50 gal (190 L)

FOODS AND FEEDING - Should be fed a variety of high quality marine meaty foods.

REEF COMPATIBILITY – Yes. May eat ornamental shrimp.

CAPTIVE CARE - This fish does best when kept with other peaceful tankmates. The mystery wrasse needs a sand substrate to burrow in at night or when scared. This fish will constantly roam the aquarium in search of food in the form of small crustaceans. When full grown, the mystery wrasse often develops a taste for smaller ornamental shrimp. They can be kept with other species of wrasses. Wrasses are known jumpers so the aquarium top should be covered.

 

[swannyson7]

Some more shots of my mystery wrasse:

 

[RZ5T]

 

[Xingu]

 

[kes]

beautiful fish, super hardy. when i had many tank crashes, it always not only survived but thrived! not a speck of ich.
lucky cuz back then it was $350 per small size
voracious eater for sure!

 

[maxter]

just wondering this fish will eat my clean screw cuz i dnt have shrimps but a lots of snails and hermit crab

 

[socal619]

mine at the bottom

 

[Djtonton]

 

[Kworker]

So these guys are fine with cleaners?

 

[SkipperTheSohalTang]

Does he take care of reef bugs? Thinking of one for my new frag tank that will probably have sand and is it safe with a cryptic wrasse?

 

[cpayne015]

had mine for almost three years.....mine has never bothered snails nor crabs, but when i first started trying to introduce cleaner and fire shrimps he would eat them...then waited til lights off to introduce oppo side and never had any issues with them....have had pair of cleaners and fire shrimps for couple of years and he never bothered.

 

[SkipperTheSohalTang]

I'm talking about nudis, red bugs and so on!

 

[El Gallo Negro]

Mine got big and started eating shrimp. I was told they wouldn't but mine did for sure.