wrasse help

1 week ago I got a pencil wrasse, so far, so good, except it is always asleep in the sand bed before dinner. I have my pumps set up to slow down at 7pm and literally everyday at 6-6:30 it is in the sand bed. light cycle starts at 11am, lights aren’t on fully till 1pm, lights start to cycle off...

Hi all, I've got a 65 gallon tank that is 36"x24"x18" (LxWxH) and I'm looking to add a couple wrasses. I'd like to get an African exquisite fairy wrasse, but on liveaquaria they say you need a 90 gallon. In contrast to this, I've seen a minimum of 50 gallons being recommended. Can anyone let me...

Looking into purchasing a Ruby Head Fairy Wrasse but want to know if it is better to buy an initial phase or a terminal phase male? I know the initial phase will eventually reach the terminal phase but some threads suggest that he will not develop as vibrant coloration if transitioning as a...

Hi, I have this melenarus wrasse, that seems to be swimming with its mouth open. I have noticed over the last couple days. The fish still eats fine (as far as I can tell). Any idea what might be causing this? Thanks everyone.

Hello everyone! I need help introducing fairy wrasses to my dt! I know every fish is different and may have different mannerisms but I want to add a lot of wrasses to my display tank and I want you all to offer me some guidance and the order of introduction as well as shut my ideas down if you...

Hey guys so I recently purchased a wrasse as well as a new CUC I brought Scarlett hermit crabs, a cleaner shrimp, blue leg hermit crabs, and a couple snails. Now I have a emeral crab from my last clean up crew and the emerald, cleaner shrimp and blood fire shrimp all hang out on and in the...

Hello, My melanurus wrasse have been hiding for weeks, I just found it to but it seems weak, breathing heavily, have puffy (almost cloudy) eyes, and I feel it is struggling to bury itself (maybe the substrate is too dense), I am using caribsea dry sand. I moved it to a breeder box with some...

I was out of town for a few weeks and came home to to my wrasse looking like this. His.. or her mouth looks pretty beat up. There was initially some aggressive dominance issues with my six line wrasse. But it only lasted a few days. The velvet wrasse is the dominant one and they have peacefully...

Hey guys, first post here. New to the hobby and did not start my tank in the traditional method at all. I got my stuff used and some live rock to sort of "jump start" my tank. It has been running for a little over a month now. I started off by adding CUC first, huge fan of the sand sifting...

I’ve got a Ruby Longfin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubeus) that’s been the only wrasse in my tank for almost a year. I purchased a red headed Solon wrasse (Cirrhilabrus solorensis) that arrived almost 2 weeks ago. I made the mistake of putting it directly in the tank and the Ruby lost his mind...

I want to get a leopard wrasse and I wanted to add some more sand to my tank to give it plenty of space to burrow. Would adding more sand to my reef tank mess anything up?

all i really need is help with my wrasse and you can skip the first paragraph as it’s only an apology about yesterday. ok as some of you know i had a whole incident that almost led to me not being alive lucky a family member stepped in before i cut too deep into myself but i’m not going to...

ok so i just had my first coral loss today my sun coral all was ok up to a week ago it wouldn’t open or even respond to food and today it finally died with it fully receding. and then my next problem is my pygmy wrasse which went from glass surfing to hiding and sleeping all day. i thought...

Has anyone had any experience with the red line wrasse? thinking about getting one, just want to know what others think about this wrasse (:

I am thinking about getting a female blue star leopard wrasse from liveaquaria. I have a 55g with about a 2 inch sand bed. On liveaquaria it says that they are expert only, i read that some say that is only because they don’t do well with the shipping process? So if i get one, should i...

I was thinking about getting an ornate leopard wrasse for my 55g tank and live aquaria lists them as an EXPERT ONLY fish. Is this true or is there any easy way to get them on frozen meaty foods?

I would love some help. I have this beautiful female leopard wrasse. She has been beaten up by either my yellow tang or my melanurus wrasse. She's been laying on the sand bed struggling to swim and breathing heavily. I can tell she's still holding on so any advice to help her would be greatly...

Hey guys! I’ve been lurking on r2r for awhile now and this is my first time posting here. I was wondering whether or not a McCoskers flasher wrasse would be compatible/fine in a 20 long? I’ve done a lot of research on this topic up to this point as it is my dream fish and I understand that while...

I’ve got a 32 biocube led. I just lost my engineer goby and my only fish in there is a four stripe damsel. Can I add a six line without him bullying my damsel to death so I can get some color? Or should I go with a different wrasse? I need something that can deal with my four stripe and still...

So I just got some frags today from a seller who has flatworms. Excellent guy, he dipped the frags for me and did a flatworm XIT dip along with his regular coral dip while we talked. I further inspected the frags before adding them to the tank and couldn’t see anything on them (they’re small zoa...

My leopard wrasses scales are like peeled up and he’s laying on his side on the sand. I found him like that this morning. The spot was white last night so I was going to look into it this morning to see how he’s doing but it’s gotten much worse. I’ve had him for over a month, maybe closer to...

Hi all, I am looking for a pest-eating fish species to help keep corals from pest vulnerability. I was originally considering adding a six line wrasse to control some coral eating pests, however, after some more research, I am seeing that this fish, even if added last to the system, can become...

ok so i got a pygmy wrasse last night in the mail i thought it was dead but it wasn’t and it’s condition hasn’t gotten any better besides he’s more aware i found out he had swim bladder issues when i tried to switch him from hiding into a cup and into a pvc pipe while i did that he just kept...

ok so i know some wrasses play dead when shipped and mine is on it side floating on the top dose that mean it’s dead or just playing dead

Hi, need some help, my yellow corris wrasse has red gills and red eyes, he has been hiding for a week he came out and its acting very strange bumping into everything and spinning. Took him out. All other fish are doing well. Parameters seem fine. What can i do. I just took him out of the tank.