six line wrasse, hard to feed?

Mine is awesome, spends all day running around with the coral beauty scouring the rocks for food. Often find him looking at himself in the tank glass with all his fins raised. He never misses a meal and will eat anything I put in the tank. Also seen him clean other fish from time to time as well.

 

My six line is a very big eater, even from day one. We rescued him from a local fish store(he had been injured when some live rock fell on him). The rock inured his left eye. The fish store only wanted $10 for him. Since I am all about second chances I decided to take him home and give him som TLC. He now rule the tank refusing to take any crap from any of the other fish, but at the same time minding his own business.

 

I added a spotted hawkfish last week to my tank. Would it be safe to add a sixline now?

 

From what I've read and heard, you should wait a few weeks to ensure the biological load isn't exceeded. Check the water parameters to make sure everything is fine

 

Our Leopard Wrasse only eats the frozen (haven't tried live yet) Hikari stuff - spirulina brine shrimp, mysis shrimp and Mega Marine. He won't eat the flakes yet. I was worried when we first bought it, b/c all the online info I found said it was a picky eater and recommended only saltwater experts, public aquariums and zoos only purchase them. Seems to be doing fine however. I feed 1/2 or 1/3 of a cube every afternoon, and whatever he doesn't eat the cleanup crew, clowns, damsels finish. No problems with nitrates or ammonia.

 

I 2nd that, you should wait 2-3 weeks before adding any fish. Fish produce the most waste(bio load) and your bac. needs time to adjust to the extra waste(load). Corals, on the other hand, dont produce nearly as much, so you can add at a faster pace.

 

I think this is especially the case because you have a smaller tank which creates more of a balancing act between your fish and bacteria

 

thanks, looks awesome!

 

(Just in case you have any further doubts)





I love my sixline!


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Besides its incredible beauty, it is great fun to watch whizzing around tank, playing in heavy water current and "schooling" around with other fish.

It is a fish with wonderful characteristics.

It will eat flatworms, bristle worms, small nuisance snails (esp. those that prey on clams) and is known to act as a "cleaner" to other fish that might be afflicted with some parasite such as Ick.

I often see it carefully inspecting my larger fish, which will hold still for it to do so.

While it does carry a bad rep for being overly aggressive, mine is the most docile, mellow and fish friendly in the tank. The reason being it was the last fish to be added to the population, other then my flame wrasse, which it does not bother at all. It seems to be that they will not tolerate new fish.

He has lots of personality and fun to watch him following around my coral beauty which his best friend.

The only downside that I have heard of, is that it also loves copepods which will put it in competition with other pod eaters, such as mandarins. But my mandarin is a fat little sausage so does not seem to be a problem in my tank.

But does feed on other reef "pests" --- mine completely wiped out a load of small pest snails. Credit it also with keeping asterina starfish under control. (think it eats the little bitty ones)...also reported doing a number on small bristle worms)

So for a cheap, useful, colorful and playful addition to a already established fish population, consider adding a sixline wrasse.

It is the perfect reef fish.

I love mine.