Six Line Wrasse

Wow, so many of you love this fish! I can't blame you, it's beautiful and I would love to add one, the only reason why I get so concerned is that my watchman and jawfish come first and I don't want them being picked on. I know my jawfish can hold it's own but my watchman is tiny and actually very timid...the tang just swimming by him would send him scurrying, the tang never bothered with any of the fish. My clowns...no worry with them either. Do wrasse go after snails and hermits? anything bad you guys have to say about the wrasse?

 

Sounds like a nice tank. I'm by no means a wrasse expert but I can say that I just added a small 6 line and so far have had no problems with him. He spends most of his time just swimming around and picking at the rock. You also might want to think about Blennies or Basletts.

 

My six line has never picked on snails or hermits. They are very active fish and like the doc says, they spend all of their time swimming aroud picking at the rock.

 

six lines are great one of the funest fish to wacth always swiming on the go;D

 

If my Bicolor doesn't leave my 6 line alone soon he is going to find another home.

 

My six-line wrasse "did-in" one of my peppermint shrimp no more than 5 minutes after being placed in the tank. I figured since the shrimp were in the tank first I would give it a shot.

Oh well...

 

Again, I think what we have reinforced with this thread, is that each fish while having certain general characteristics, still has its own individual likes,dislikes and tastes.


There is always risk in introducing a new inhabitant to an established tank - where relationships and boundaries are already established.



Be prepared for unkown consequences. 8)

 

I had to remove 180lbs of liverock from my tank just to catch my sixline...it was a bad actor and killed ever shrimp within five minutes of hitting the main tank...it also killed hermit crabs.....but again it might of been the personality of that particular fish. At the same time i removed my yellow tang because it would also kill anything new introduced into the tank....live and learn I guess!

 

Well I went with a Twelve Line(Four line) and the last bunch of pep. shrimp I added he tagged everyone of them.


Twelve Line Wrasse

 

Well, we have a six line in our large display tank and he is very peaceful. He was one of the first inhabitants of the tank. The problem was we tried to introduce a a fairy wrasse to the tank and became quite agressive. Thank goodness we have another marine tank setup and we were able to get the fairy wrasse out before the sixline killed her. That would have happened in a very short time if we werent able to get her out. Now the six line is back to the same old mild mannered fish...