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Wrasse Mystery

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Topic: Wrasse Mystery
Posted By: 80cent
Subject: Wrasse Mystery
Date Posted: August 06 2013 at 1:50pm
No, not a mystery wrasse, I just have a question about wrasses in general. I have never owned one, but I am reading online, and a lot of species say that they harass certain kinds of snails and shrimp. Do all wrasse species do this? Can I have wrasses and a cleanup crew?



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Posted By: 80cent
Date Posted: August 06 2013 at 3:46pm
Maybe this was a bad title...


Posted By: fishyman19
Date Posted: August 06 2013 at 4:17pm
I think like you said that it depends on the wrasse. I have got a Yellow Coris, Mystery wrasse, a Christmas, a Red Head Solon Fairy and a McCoskers Flasher wrasse. The only ones I've ever seen go after things is my Yellow Coris and the Christmas wrasse. I had a Harlequin Shrimp, sexy shrimp, a glass anemone shrimp and some porcelain crabs. They all were getting along great until my yellow and Christmas reached a decent size then I noticed that they had started to disappear. They don't however seem to bother my snails or hermit crabs too much. I see the occasional hermit parts floating around, but I think it's mainly due to the bigger ones taking them out.


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90 Gallon mixed reef. Wife's 12 gallon nano cube mixed reef!


Posted By: djknauss
Date Posted: August 22 2013 at 5:28pm
stay away from the lunar wrasse, it will pretty much eat anything it can - snails, small hermit crabs, smaller fish

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55 gallons of impulsive additions and subtractions.



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