What are yout thoughts on Flame Wrasses?

[Dyngoe]

Hey, I have a guy who wants to trade some of my equipment for a pair of Flame Wrasses. Particularly he says they will be a male/female "juvenile" pair. Any thoughts on this? Is there anything I need to know about Flames and compatibility with other wrasses/fish?

 

[iani]

What kind or wrasses/fish do you have? IMO two fish should not be called a pair until one turns male. When the fish are juveniles both are females.

 

[Dyngoe]

Hey Ian,

The only other wrasse I have right now is a yellow coris wrasse. But, I was planning on getting a 6-line as well.

 

[iani]

The 6-line is probably going to be the terror. The flames should be fine with the yellow wrasse.

 

[tuberider]

Flames are pretty.

 

[Dyngoe]

Great! From a person who can name more species of coral and fish by latin name than almost anyone I know I get:

Flames are pretty.

Thanks for the insight. :

Ian, will the six-line really be a bully? I thought they were passive.

 

[iani]

6-lines are almost the worst wrasses as far as bullying goes. Even small ones are bad.

 

[Lyn]

Beautiful fish, and they're from Hawaii! ;D

Is this better than tuberiders insight? ;D

 

[Lyn]

Some info.

http://www.marinedepot.com/md_educationcenter_species_details~ProductId~794194.html
http://www.hawaiisfishes.com/books/hawaiis_fishes/flamewrasse.htm
http://www.mauioceancenter.com/marinepdf/flame_wrasse.pdf
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/fishes/wrasses/cirrhilabrus/index.htm

 

[iani]

They are one my my favorite wrasses. I relegated my lineatus to my frag tank so I could get more flames. My last super male was chased out by my lineatus even though I have a netting over my tank.

 

[Lyn]

Did you lose your flame Ian? Such a bummer.

 

[iani]

I did, that was a couple months ago.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Matt how big is your tank? I seem to recall you looking for "small fish" while flames aren't particularly large they are hardly a small fish tank type of fish.

 

[Dyngoe]

Hey Mike,

I was looking for small fish to make my tank look bigger. I have a 4x2x2 120G.

 

[iani]

That is plenty big for them.

 

[Thales]

I am not too enthused by pairs of wrasses anymore - people tend to end up with just one.

Other than that, one of my favorite fish.

6 lines are evil, in a bad way.

 

[Dyngoe]

Hey Ian,

I see the price on these suckers and it's pretty high. What would you pay for a pair of juveniles?

 

[sfsuphysics]

Well the price was much higher in the past $300+ range. I think you can get them for half that now, of course it has been a bit since I've been in the store to compare prices (don't use online prices as a gauge, they tend to reflect the changing market much less)

 

[iani]

Mike, you are right. Prices have come down.

 

[Jbon]

I know this is an old thread but I searched it out as I just lost my male Flame. I did some searching while he was in hiding since I observed my female flame being chased by my Mystery. I found some RC posts about the Mystery killing their Flames. I've had my Mystery for about 8 months and the Flames for about 4 months and haven't observed problems so this just came on in the past few days. So, live and learn - Mystery wrasses and fairies are problematic. (

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1484940