Six line wrasse question

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evilfishtank

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24g tank.
I have 2 firefish and one yellow coris wrasse. The corris wrasse is awesome he has all kinds of personality. but he is hit or miss, sometimes he will come out and say hi or sometimes he may sleep all day in the sand. i have heard many good things about the six line wrasse and they look awesome. but most of the sites say he may be aggressive towards other peaceful wrasses. that is my question has anyone had any experience with this setup a six line wrasse and a yellow coris wrasse or better yet a six line wrasse and another peaceful wrasse? the yellow was there 1st and hes a good guy so if someones going to pick on him its a no go. he has seniority
. just want to make sure no ones going to pick on the poor guy.
 

spiderwoman

Active Member
I'd be careful in adding a second wrasses into such a small tank. He can be a bully, I've got one of those in our 75g tank and he has a way of being sneaky and pick on other fish. He does get rid of flatworms and he is pretty cool looking, but I'd be careful. I've got a yellow coris wrasse in my 40g frag tank and he is sometimes pretty skiddish and can/will jump.
If I were you, I would not risk a sexliner in that tank.
 
I just got rid of my JBJ 28 Gallon tank, but before I did, I also had a couple firefish, coris wrasse, but had a six line also. It was very peaceful and never bothered the others.
I wouldn't worry about it, but again sometimes fish may have attitude.
I did try to put a different wrasse in there once and my six line did go crazy and nip at the bag (I was acclimating at the time) this was a bad sign and I didn't put the fish in. Maybe see if the LFS will take it back, and do that, if the coriss wrasse doesn't attack, you should be ok.
Because the six line is being added, I wouldn't worry about him attacking, he would probably be the victim.
 

poniegirl

Active Member
I have always considered the wrasse family to be more "self assured" than "aggressive". Nice fish, but as said before you just can't know for sure.
Maybe a good rule of thumb is to have the more socially unafraid fish to be the last added to the tank.
I have had good experiences with wrasse, personally.
 
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