School me on the yellow coris wrasse

[kkiel02]

I am looking at adding this to my line up. Mainly for the worm eating part but see that it isnt reef safe on any of the sites. As far as inverts I have snails, a couple hermits, emerald carbs, two cleaner shrimp and two fire shrimp. The final picture would be a group of flasher wrasses, a leopard or two and this coris. Any objections and why is it not reef safe?

[Mr Cob]

aka canary wrasse

I had one for over 2 years in my 120g mixed reef setup. I loved it. When threatened it would dart into the sand.

I always thought mine to be reef safe. I never had any problems with it. It was great at cleaning rocks...especially new rocks.

Most wrasses will eat the little baby feather dusters...so I never had any of those growing in the main display. In my current setup I do not have a wrasse only because I wanted to see what life would take form....but now that I have hundreds of feather dusters and vermit worms...I'll be thinking of adding a wrasse soon. The coris wrasse is a great addition in my opinion for color, availability and price.

[Big_Pun]

i have a 4-6 inch one very cool, will nip at my snails only when filpped over but keeps worm pop down, gets along fine with other 9 fish in tank lil bossy sometimes but nothing more than a lil nudge once in a while had mine for over a yr

[cowboy572]

As far as I have read and experienced they are little more reef safe members of the coris wrasse family. They are "flippers" but not at notorious as the dragon and my "flipper" and red coris wrasse.

[Gseclipse02]

As far as I have read and experienced they are little more reef safe members of the coris wrasse family. They are "flippers" but not at notorious as the dragon and my "flipper" and red coris wrasse.


i love the red coris wrasse but man did he pick at snails and crabs same for the brown bird wrasse most entertaining fish i have ever had but ate all my crabs and snails

kyleN gave me his yellow wrasse and he was very peaceful always was doing his own thing but he didnt make it ...:sick:


i hear the green coris is a great coris wrasse

[kkiel02]

Well I may have to give one a try sounds like they are fairly safe. I have alot of snail babies and I guess they will become wrasse food but there are tons and tons atm.

[RayAllen]

This is the white belly wrasse I have (clink on link). Purchased from Texas tropical and marine. It just cruises the tank eating pods and worms.

People think its a yellow corris wrasse when they see it, but mine is a white belly wrasse aka lemon meringue wrasse which besides its belly look exactly like a corris.

http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/0404/wrasse.html

So peeps if you are have one and it has a white belly its not a yellow corris wrasse.

~Ray

[Mr Cob]

Yeah, Ray, I have always preferred the Lemon Meringue over the Corris.

[kkiel02]

Do you notice yours jumping? I have an open top and have kept mccoskers, leopards and cleaners without jumping. I dont really have a fish that chases them and I believe that is why alot jump. I know its always a chance with wrasses or gobies but would rather have a slim chance if you know what I mean.

[stoneroller]

I am tempted to go with a seagrass wrasse in the new setup.

[msmith619]

The coris wrasse should leave your corals alone. They are not reef safe because they will eat any shrimp, feather duster, some clams and snails and the less armored crabs. As far as I know, only the parrot fish are the wrasses that eat corals.

[Third Coast Tropical]

At one time, I had a yellow coris....liked to jump.....rescued him several times and he was amazingly fine after being on the floor (how knows how long, couple of times I thought it was a goner)....One day, he did it while I was gone and I was unable to help it out.....It seems like every wrasse I have had has found a way to jump....Love wrasses, just dont keep any anymore....good luck. You might think about trying to enclose that canopy if possible

[RayAllen]

Do you notice yours jumping? I have an open top and have kept mccoskers, leopards and cleaners without jumping. I dont really have a fish that chases them and I believe that is why alot jump. I know its always a chance with wrasses or gobies but would rather have a slim chance if you know what I mean.

My lemon Meringue has never jumped. I have a biocube so it cant jump out of the tank but can jump into the back chambers but never has. Its not a skiddish fish at all.

[Dominican]

Do you think a Lemon Meringue would get along with a Leopard Wrasse?

[RayAllen]

Do you think a Lemon Meringue would get along with a Leopard Wrasse?

In a 150g tank I believe it could work, but there are never any guarantees.

[SoLiD]

I'm pretty sure that the Yellow "Coris" Wrasse isn't actually from the Coirs genus. With that said they pretty much are reef safe with the exceptions of some snails and smaller shrimps in my experience. They also keep the bristle worm population at bay.

[OrionN]

a long time ago, i had a yellow Coris wrasse, the one with several small spots on the dorsal fin. He was fine in my tank for more than one year. One day he start to go berserk and torn into my clams. In one morning he kill one of my Maxima and severely damage several others. I have to take him out. Since clams always in my reefs, I have not keep another yellow wrasse since then (1996)