So, who else has been bitten by the Fairy/Flasher/Leopard Wrasse bug????

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

I changed up my bioload and decided to go hard-core into reef-safe wrasses with my present setups. The nice thing is that if they get along, then you can keep more different colourful species of r-s wrasses than with the larger fish that I normally kept before.

Now I have:

Blue flasher
Filament flasher
Carpenter's flasher
Temminckii fairy
Exquisite fairy (not sure if this is accurate)
Orange back fairy
Solarensis fairy
Lubbock's fairy
Green wrasse
Cleaner wrasse
Ornate Leopard
Leopard wrasse (2 reg. females)

Surprisingly, almost all these wrasses get along (probably because I feed frequently and heavily). My baby girl, Isabella, loves to watch the colourful wrasses swimming around, which is one of the reasons I started this collection.

I'm finding that as long as the new wrasse survives the initial harassment from the Candy Hogfish, then it hides for a day or two before joining the gang.

The second female reg. Leopard Wrasse is still finding its way into the hierarchy but its eating mysis and I'm hoping that it's presence will trigger the other female (or itself) to morph into a male (green-blue colour) leopard wrasse.

So, just wondering how many others are getting into these colourful little reef-safe fish?

Anthony

Will try to add pics later.

[gklaw]

Wrasses have tempted me many many times. I would love to keep some except I am too lazy to feed frozen food.

One of my first wrasses was a 2" black one with one spots on (paid $100). Lost it and found it on my glass top - fish jerkey

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

I keep glass tops on all my tanks now (both for keeping fish from jumping out and for evaporation loss reduction). Wrasses are notorious for being jumpers.

Anthony

[gklaw]

That is the other problem with wrasses. I had glass top on but somehow he found the last 2" on the edge and landed on the glass top. I am going the open top route but may end up putting lass top on later. :LoL I had loss more fish on the glass top than I have on the floor - but then I don't keep too many little jumpers.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

So some quick low res. pics I snapped off with my Nikon D3000 dslr. Just some point & shoots really.



Solorensis & Lubbock's fairy wrasses



Temmenckii fairy wrasse



Orange sided fairy wrasse



Filament Flasher wrasse



Leopard and Ornate Leopard wrasses



Yellow Flanked Fairy wrasse



Another of Solorensis



Another of Temmenckii



Another of Lubbock's

Hope you like.

Anthony

[cichlid]

Im still researching thw SW facination. Now that im thinking about doing up the 25 gallon. Smaller Wrasse for my collection.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Three pics of my "blue" flasher wrasse and a Mandarin goby just to spice it up.

[cichlid]

Its a nice mixture of color and shapes!