The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[TylerHaworth]

My vote is for a Lineatus and any Flasher of your choosing... Blue, McCosker, Eightline, Diamond Tail... All are stunning fish and should be compatible unless your sixline is a jerk.

 

[jabberwock]

I have a Carpenter's Wrasse in my 25 gallon lagoon. I am wanting to add some Berghia Nudibranchs for aptasia control. Will the Carpenter's eat the Berghia? Thanks

 

[Tcook]

I have a Carpenter's Wrasse in my 25 gallon lagoon. I am wanting to add some Berghia Nudibranchs for aptasia control. Will the Carpenter's eat the Berghia? Thanks

The fairy and flashers feed from the water column so you should be ok. @Slocke and the missing one @i cant think

 

[Slocke]

I have a Carpenter's Wrasse in my 25 gallon lagoon. I am wanting to add some Berghia Nudibranchs for aptasia control. Will the Carpenter's eat the Berghia? Thanks

Nah. Water column fish

 

[BasementBox]

My vote is for a Lineatus and any Flasher of your choosing... Blue, McCosker, Eightline, Diamond Tail... All are stunning fish and should be compatible unless your sixline is a jerk.

Good thing is my 6 line is just being a hunter killer. Never stops going through my rock work. There’s a lot. He seems more preoccupied in finding his next copepod than anyone and anything else

 

[Crabby48]

I have a Carpenter's Wrasse in my 25 gallon lagoon. I am wanting to add some Berghia Nudibranchs for aptasia control. Will the Carpenter's eat the Berghia? Thanks

Should be okay as few fairy’s and flashers pick pods. Just add nudi’s to a small hole and wrasse can’t get them. It’s what I did when I had wrasse that would kill them. Also wrasse don’t like nudi so the bite and spit them out

 

[Crabby48]

Good thing is my 6 line is just being a hunter killer. Never stops going through my rock work. There’s a lot. He seems more preoccupied in finding his next copepod than anyone and anything else

Sixline probably will be a problem at some point and also a lineatus with small flashers can be a tough mix

 

[tbrown]

I have a Carpenter's Wrasse in my 25 gallon lagoon. I am wanting to add some Berghia Nudibranchs for aptasia control. Will the Carpenter's eat the Berghia? Thanks

I added Berghia to my 125 with a H. leucoxanthus and H. melanurus. I added them at night and they survived and bred with no issues. Being nocturnal helps.

 

[cdnco2004]

I added Berghia to my 125 with a H. leucoxanthus and H. melanurus. I added them at night and they survived and bred with no issues. Being nocturnal helps.

I have a 75g overrun with aiptasia but I have avoided Berghia out of fear they would be expensive snacks for my H. leucoxanthus and H. melanurus in that tank. I think I will try to order a handfull and see how they do.

 

[Crabby48]

I have a 75g overrun with aiptasia but I have avoided Berghia out of fear they would be expensive snacks for my H. leucoxanthus and H. melanurus in that tank. I think I will try to order a handfull and see how they do.

Put the nudi’s in a small hole in a rock so wrasse can’t get them and you will be okay. Of the wrasse see them then it’s over. Also wrasse don’t eat midi’s but will bite them on half and spit them out

 

[cdnco2004]

I have a Coris Gaimard in QT right now for my 220. That 220 has a h. Annularis and T. Lunare. I plan to pull the Lunare before adding the Coris then move him back later.

 

[cdnco2004]

Put the nudi’s in a small hole in a rock so wrasse can’t get them and you will be okay. Of the wrasse see them then it’s over. Also wrasse don’t eat midi’s but will bite them on half and spit them out

I am thinking about putting them in a mushroom box during the day then slide the lid open after the wrasse go to sleep in the sand. I really need to get the aiptasia under control. Got a Klien's Butterfly which has helped with smaller young aiptasia but has ignored the larger established aiptasia.

 

[Crabby48]

I am thinking about putting them in a mushroom box during the day then slide the lid open after the wrasse go to sleep in the sand. I really need to get the aiptasia under control. Got a Klien's Butterfly which has helped with smaller young aiptasia but has ignored the larger established aiptasia.

I recommend you trying to kill the big ones with something like f aiptasia. Most things that eat nudis are better at keeping the problem from a problem as they like smaller aip.

Mushroom box should work if they can’t get out or wrasse get in the box. My leopards would jump in my mushroom boxes to hunt

 

[Crabby48]

I have a Coris Gaimard in QT right now for my 220. That 220 has a h. Annularis and T. Lunare. I plan to pull the Lunare before adding the Coris then move him back later.

Coris might be hard to keep midi’s. I based my info on more reef safe wrasse. Also the lines may pick off nudi’s. They can get in holes better then wrasse and tend to eat more things reef safe wrasse

 

[cdnco2004]

I recommend you trying to kill the big ones with something like f aiptasia. Most things that eat nudis are better at keeping the problem from a problem as they like smaller aip.

Mushroom box should work if they can’t get out or wrasse get in the box. My leopards would jump in my mushroom boxes to hunt

My box has a swivel lid that screws shut so they would not be able to get out or the wrasse in while its closed. But they should be able to get out when I open it after the wrasse go to bed in the sand.

 

[Crabby48]

My box has a swivel lid that screws shut so they would not be able to get out or the wrasse in while its closed. But they should be able to get out when I open it after the wrasse go to bed in the sand.

As long as nudis find a hiding spot before anyone wakes up you should be good. I would remove them from box and place in a small hole in a rock

 

[cdnco2004]

Coris might be hard to keep midi’s. I based my info on more reef safe wrasse.

The only risk from the coris would be small inverts, which are already at risk due to the lunare. If your talking about the nudi's I was talking about above, two different tanks. My 220 the coris will go into has zero aiptasia thanks to my Racoon Butterfly and Molley Miller.

 

[cdnco2004]

As long as nudis find a hiding spot before anyone wakes up you should be good. I would remove them from box and place in a small hole in a rock

Yeah I was thinking about trying to remove them.

 

[cdnco2004]

The only risk from the coris would be small inverts, which are already at risk due to the lunare. If your talking about the nudi's I was talking about above, two different tanks. My 220 the coris will go into has zero aiptasia thanks to my Racoon Butterfly and Molley Miller.

I will often pick out rock from the 75 and place in the 220 to get cleaned. But a lot of the aiptasia are on the foundation rocks which I can't easily remove without tearing the entire rock scape down.

 

[Crabby48]

Yeah I was thinking about trying to remove them.

These work great to suck up niudi’s to move them. Just cut the bottom part big enough to suck them up