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rickross23 http:///t/390947/help#post_3465220
The guy at ny lfs said anthias need to be fed everyday or else they will die..is this true?
^^This is what made me think you might be from NY. But I'm a dope and didn't even realize that the "ny" was supposed to be "my". Sorry about that.
Either way, I really don't think your LFS is giving you the best possible advice right now.
As for wrasses. The ones that are truly reef safe are the flashers and fairies, but they're jumpers (almost all wrasses are actually). The Christmas wrasse is usually okay in a reef setting as long as you don't plan on keeping very small ornamental shrimp like harlequin, sexy or bumblebee shrimp. Many people do keep them successfully in their reefs with Skunk Cleaner and Fire Shrimp. It all depends on the temperment of the fish. Many people have great luck with Yellow Corris Wrasses in reef tanks, mine is a little demon. He flips my snails and leaves them to drown, and killed my peppermints. I think if he were bigger, he'd go after my Skunk and Fire Shrimp as well. Meanwhile, I have a Yellow Candy Hogfish (a type of wrasse), which is supposedly horrible with inverts who could not care less about the inverts in my tank. He doesn't even go after the baby mysid shrimp that get pumped through from my refugium.