All About Reef Safe Wrasses

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I have a question, I am going to be adding either a carpenter's or a mccosker's wrasse and am planning on adding some type of fairy wrasse. Would it be best to add them at the same time?

And also what would you recommend for the type of fairy wrasse (something thats affordable $30-$75). These will be my first wrasses in quite some time and I have never had more than one.

 

Certainly nothing wrong with adding them at the same time. You can easily add on later too with the usage of an acclimation box for a few days.

As for a fairy, do have a particular color palette in mind? Lot's of suitable choices really. A few that come to mind, for red: C. rubripinnis, blue: C. lubbocki, green: C. exquisitus, and pinkish-red: C. flavidorsalis.

 

Thanks for the advise. Should be getting at least one soon.

 

Laboutei arrived safe and sound yesterday morning. Drip acclimated for an hour and half, then kept him in the acclimation box and into the tank to let the Bathyphilus feel the newcomer out. Glad I did, since he was all around the box trying to get at the Laboutei. Went back to work and 6 hours later the Bathyphilus was no longer interested in him. I put a small piece of pvc in the box, and apparantly left too big an opening in the box! He was out and about throughout the tank. Very little aggresion between the two, just a little chasing every now and then.

Here are a couple pics (ignore the pvc that fell out of the box when I was takin it out):



The Bathyphilus has been flashing a ton to the Laboutei:

 

Thanks Hunter! Luckily I have learned through others mistakes...all tanks are 100% covered.

Do you think I would have any trouble adding a C. Jordani and a C. Lineatus once the 125 is up and running? Should I try to add them to the 125 first, or just use acclimate box for however long it takes if the others are already established? These are the last two on my wishlist.

 

Hey Hunter, just found a company making acclimation/isolation boxes and thought i would share since there wasn't a source for these for a good while.

Less wrasse death-tornadoes

 

After looking around since I wanted to get an acclimation box I came across a thread saying those people (4coral) actually haven't responded to orders at all recently. I would steer away from them based on people's recent experiences. Other threads recommended this:
Social Acclimation Box
instead. I just ended up building my own.

 

I built my own too and reef club members check it out. I was just looking to get a bigger one.

 

That's Pro, good price, too. Out of stock atm, though.