Kearson Ulosovich - 2012-04-29
I love the klunzingers wrasse. It's a very beautiful fish. I am even doing it for a school project!

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John Bunton - 2012-04-05
I have four of these in a 90 gallon tank and they can be tough to acclimate for sure. I would highly suggest having every single possible food type on hand before they arrive. Start with freeze dried mysis, brine, bloodworm, whatever else soaked in Selcon or the like. If they don't take this move to frozen mysis, brine, bloodworm, or whatever else you can think of. Use the freeze dried first since you can reconstitute it with the Selcon and get more nutrients to your fish, this is much harder with frozen food. The best way that I have found to get these guys to take pellet or flake is to mix the flake or pellet with whatever else they are taking first. After you have done this for a week or two space out your feedings a little bit. Don't starve them but make them hungry and feed only the flake for a day or two. Don't feed the flake too long by itself if they are not eating. Patience is the key with these fish, don't push them too hard and don't underestimate them. I had one stay under the sand for 3.5 weeks before she finally came out during daylight hours.

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nick - 2011-12-14
I have a wrasse that I have been trying to figure out what species he is. He is most similar looking to the moon wrasse described here except his redish green coloration extends all the way down his rounded tail. He is also about 4-5 inches long. Either way he has been extremely peacefull, hardy and I've had him for quite some time. My only gripe about him is when I feed my corals he is very smart and likes to eat the food out of them. He will eat so much that his belly will get big and round lol. I keep him with a leapard wrasse, percula, bangai cardinal, longspine urchin, regal tang, yellow tang, bicolor blenny, fire shrimp hermit crabs and various snails. I've never seen him pester any of the other fish and my tank doesn't have anyone that does really.

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Cinamen - 2008-09-29
Hello,

I am very interested in this wrasse. I cannot find this one for under $160. Can you help me find it at a lower price?

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Tony Gill - 2009-05-11
The fish in the photo is not a wrasse, but a species of Pentapodus (family Nemipteridae). Editor's note: Thanks, we'll look into this... Anyone have a picture of the King Coris wrasse?

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Vicki - 2010-07-06
Can I add a Lyre Tail wrasse if I have a shrimp in the tank?

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Oliver Bailey - 2006-09-06
This wrasse requires expert ownership and should only be kept or attempted by the most experienced aquarists. Its diet is the main problem as it relies heavily on copepods and amphipods and this diet cannot be constitued unless in a large mature tank and like many other difficult fish possibly has another dietary requirment that often leads to their premature death, i.e the morrish idol. This fish is best left in the ocean, and other fairy wrasses utilised as these are far more suitable and in my opinion the perfect reef inhabitant.

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Roger - 2011-04-25
My Lunar wrasse lives in a 75 gallon soft coral tank by himself. He killed my flame angel, my HumaHuma Trigger, a Dwarf Lion fish, 2 percula clowns and 5 damsels. He will devour anything I put in the tank, and is currently trying to figure out how to eat my urchin. I have came to the conclusion that my tank is for him only and he loves to eat large turbo snails.

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HG - 2010-09-01
I hate long bird nose, it is so annoying and always stealing some other fishes' foods. Does anyone know if long bird nose wrasse eat the shrimp cleaner? Thanks for confirming me asap.

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Kevin Glenn - 2011-05-13
Our experience with our Six-Stripe Wrasse--named Stripey by our six-year-old son--differs greatly from those commenting on this little fish. He is fun to watch darting in and out of the live rock. He lives peacefully among his tank mates, 2 Clown Fish and a Scribbled Rabbit Fish.

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