All About Reef Safe Wrasses

rubriventralis

Wouldn't risk it with naoko.

 

Great write up! My wife and I currently have a 300 (6x3) with a pink margin, mystery, male pylei, black leopard, and cleaner. I have the opportunity to get this guy. Are the rhomboid and pink margin likely to be ok together? Also we will be moving and downsizing to a 120 for a few years while we sell our old house and buy a new one. That could be as long as 3-5 years before we upgrade to an 800 gallon display. The rhomboid will definitely stay, and I wonder if the rhomboid and pink margin would be likely to get along in that smaller tank? Lastly your list in this thread saya that pylei's are very aggressive, but the chart on reef addition says they are timid? Why the discrepancy? Sorry for all the questions, but everyone know you're the expert.

 

Pylei is an outlier in the complex; as a whole the complex is mild yet pylei is... eh, not so mild let's say.

Rhomboid will be fine with rubrimarginatus. If you're adding both rhomboids in that pic, expect to end up with two males.

In your whole post, the only thing which concerns me is the mystery wrasse, especially if downsizing alongside the rest.

 

Thanks. The other wrasse in the pic is actually supposed to be a male balteatus. I was thinking female rhomboid too, but the difference in person is much easier to see. The mystery has gotten along great with everything so far except a female pylei I had to remove. The reason I'd like to keep if it at all possible is that it will be one of, if not the only, fish in an eventual coral qt tank for the future big system. Since it's a model citizen so far, I'm hoping it will stay that way until that system is set up. Worst case scenario, I just have to pull it and get a different one once I set up the qt. Thanks for the quick response.

 

Doesn't look like it me, but I may be fooled by the lighting/angle.

You're very welcome.

 

It's definitely the lighting and angle. There are literally no rhomboid marking on it. No spots, and an overall light red color with some faint large stripes. Doesn't really look like a balteatus in person either, but definitely not rhomboid.

 

katherinae is a strong possibility then. There's been regular collection of them lately.

 

Yeah the google images look a lot like it.

 

I've seen a lot of mention of rhomboids having decompression issues from collection. Is that actually common? Or are they just more susceptible for some reason?

 

It was common there for a bit by virtue of some new or uninformed collectors. If the divers don't do things right, things happen. The deeper the fish, the higher the risk.