The Richmond Wrasse is a popular but infrequently offered wrasse for reef aquariums. Females and juveniles are pale green with orange stripes and two false eye spots. Males have iridescent blue lips, fin edges, and smooth blue stripes on a burgundy face. The males’ prominent orange stripes [...]
This Cleaner Wrasse comes from Hawaii, and does better than the Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse. Most don’t eat, or what they do eat isn’t good enough to keep them alive. Most die while those that do start to eat rarely last longer than 1 year. At night it will seal itself in a mucus [...]
Most don’t eat, and those that do rarely last longer than 1 year. At night it will seal itself in a mucus cocoon. Image courtesy of Unique Corals/Manhattan [...]
This Cleaner Wrasse comes from Hawaii and while it does better than the regular Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse, they still don’t have a good history of making it. At night it will seal itself in a mucus [...]
The Leopard Wrasse is a hard wrasse to keep; they usually last for a number of weeks and then die. Most will drive into the sand and never come out, or when they do, they don’t eat. Because need to hide in the sand, you’ll need to have sand in the tank if they are to have any chance of [...]
A very beautiful wrasse that is very hard to keep. Most will not eat and spend a lot of their time in the sand, so a sand bed is needed. The China Wrasse needs to be kept with non-aggressive fish. Even though it’s very temping to get this fish because of its beauty, it should really not be [...]
This is a tough wrasse to get to eat and most just die from starvation. They will drive in the sand so a sand bed is needed. A good fish to pass on as it’s very hard to [...]