All About Reef Safe Wrasses

Side of your tank, opposite the acc. box? I really just want you to buy a Bieber poster.

 

Hey Hunter, quick question, my LFS has some 8 lines, they are not Pseudocheilinus octotaenia although that how they came in. They do not look like a Flasher either, unless they are all females, are there a fairy wrasse called an 8-line?

 

Likely an Eightline Flasher female, no?



Eightline Flasher Wrasse

 

I have two questions. Can wrasse span in aquaria and if a male is not kept with females will it lose it's coloration?

 

spawn? Yes but i don't think the fry survive well even if bred. Some wrase will lose coloring, but almost all will look better with a female.

 

won't that make the skimmer go nuts?

 

the eggs probably all get eaten quickly.

 

It's not the eggs I worry about.

 

Pretty much this ^. Yes, they can and have spawned (I've done it myself), but how to net, hatch, and raise those eggs in a separate system is uncharted territory just yet. Survival in the system is impossible; those eggs become fish/coral food in a hurry. What's left ends up in the mechanical filtration.

As far as color, that's variable by species. Males of some species will look no different with or without females, yet other species will fade quite a bit. Keeping any male alongside males of other species generally works just as well however.

Right; everyone quickly gets a snack. Not much goes uneaten.

Really? If your skimmer is that sensitive, the dust which falls in your tank on a daily basis would cause you issues. We're talking about such a miniscule amount of uneaten eggs/sperm here, and there's not that much to begin with.

 

I thought there would be a lot more sperm when I think broadcast.