More than 1 wrasse

[Javisheppard]

I have a yellow wrasse and I was wondering if there any other types of wrasses that can be kept with it. I have a 55 gallon tank

[roscozman]

I have a yellow coris and a green wrasse in a 240gal with no problems.

[Kristy]

You can apply the same rules for this as adding more than one tang: if you have a big enough tank then it's no problem... just exercise caution when adding wrasses of the same body shape as there may be some competition between similar looking wrasses.

I really enjoy our three wrasses we have in our 210g. They are such SMART, beautiful, colorful, active swimmers with such great personalities. We have a mystery wrasse, a rosy scaled wrasse, and a clown fairy wrasse... all absolutely stunning animals. At various times we have also had a cleaner wrasse and a sixline too but lost the cleaner and eventually pulled out and re-homed the sixline. One trick I have used successfully when adding a new wrasse that might get picked on by a dominant territorial wrasse: we put the new wrasse in one of those breeder net basket boxes and hooked it to the front glass for the first day and then bent the clips so that the top of the basket dipped down to the water's surface. The new wrasse could swim out when he was ready and could hop back in to safety if he was getting harrassed too much. We generally left it up for two or three days until we saw everyone swimming together and getting along.

You want to take care to successfully introduce the wrasses because a harrassed wrasse is a determined jumper.

[g-ray]

I used to try and catch the ones I had in my tank already and then place them all in the tank at the same time I had 4 wrasses in 75 gal for a quite awhile.

[RayAllen]

My 180 houses

1 Pink Streak Wrasse aka 4line
1 Red Corris
1 Purple Belly
1 Xmas wrasse

I have no problems but I have a 180g tank, they all tend to stick to their own zones. The Red Corris which will be the largest as a adult spends the entire day picking at the sand. The others cruise the rock work looking for pods.

Id recomment sticking with a smaller species if you do add another. A six, eight or 4 line would probably work out well.

[Javisheppard]

Okay thanks everyone... I know it's been a while since this post, but I bought a carpenters flasher wrasse and he is doing great with my yellow wrasse. But they do both tend to stay on separate sides of the tank. But when the do get close there are no problems

[neogenix]

I've got 2, and they're both pretty happy looking, and completely ignore each other. They even take turns in stranding themselves in the overflow ...