My Fairy Reef Tank - Lots of Photos

[bronco7777]

Okay I'd like to share some pics of may tank overall. I know I show a lot of individual fish picture shots. Here I'll try to show more community shots.

Some people doubt that you can keep several fairy wrasses together. Hopefully this will help show some possibilities:

First shot is a wide view tank shot:
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[bronco7777]

A little closer shot. Kinda hard to get wrasses to sit still for a group shot so they show a bit blurry. But I think you can pick out the different breeds:

Bottom Center: orangeback fairy
Center: Solar Fairy
Top left: Pink Margin fairy
Top Right: Yellowfin in front of Exquisite. Behind Exquisite a Scott's

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[bronco7777]

Even closer

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[just dave]

Very pretty,but why are the pictures so small?

[bronco7777]

I'm not very good at this picture thing. I'll try and get it larger.

[brianlena2000]

Nice fish!! :thumbsup:

[bronco7777]

Supermale Exquisite with female hand feedinghttp://www.reefaquariumguide.com/photos/data/500/1649Exquisites_Feeding.JPG[/IMG]

[bronco7777]

Supermale Pink Margin with a Labout's in the background

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[bronco7777]

Probably the most amount of fairy wrasses I've been able to capture in one tank shot.

Top left: Lineatus & Scott's
Just right of Scott's: Female Exquisite
Center: Pink Margin
Next to Pink Margin: Yellowfin (Male)
Above Yellowfin: Mystery and juvenile Finespotted
Right: Orangeback and Solar swimming away


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[bronco7777]

Here's a shot of the Exquisite Flashing the female. Notice how all the fins are expanded and the top of the fish is glowing in white-neon blue-purple shades. The tail also turns yellow.

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[c. dawg]

Very nice fish!

[sirhelm]

Simply amazing!! :eek1:

I love the different colors!

Man I may turn my agressive FOWLR into a wrasse tank!!


SH

[InsaneClownFish]

Awesome. Great stuff as always bronco! :)

[RedSoxReefer]

that is the coolest tank ive seen yet in this place.......good job

[pledosophy]

very cool

[Thurge]

Very nice. Especially love your Exquisite wrasses.

One question though, I thought that similar looking males would tear into one another. What is keeping all of your blue males (especially the Scotts and Solarinsis) from tearing each other appart?

I have so many questions because I have a 135 project.

[bronco7777]

Thurge,

The trick is to stagger the ages and sizes.

My Scott's is a pretty large fish as you can probably tell by comparing its size to the Pink Margin.

The Solar and the Finespotted are just juveniles so they are distinctly different in age and won't ever put up a fight to a large fairy.

My biggest challenge was getting the super large pink margin to make peace with the lineatus. The Pink is larger than the lineatus but not by that much. However, the lineatus noticedhis superior sized and has accepted the role od second fiddle in the tank. Initially they had some spectacular flashing confrontations in the center of the tank....but they not tolerate each other....again simply because of size differential. It also helps that this Pink margin had a brighter color pattern variant... its quite different from the lineatus in the purple color. The Pink is a true supermale while the lineatus is just a large male. I still wouldn't recommend that beginners try to add the lineatus and the pink margin together and I've stated that many times before. It's a tricky mix that I took a chance with and its worked. It's worked because the sizes were still not even but typically similarly patterned and colored fairies will have aggression problems with each other if they are of equal size.

[tstone]

Bronco post some more. Great stuff.

[bronco7777]

Scott's & Solar come in for a bite. Labout's and exquisite come closer.http://www.reefaquariumguide.com/photos/data/500/1649Feeding_Scott_s.JPG[/IMG]

[SHARKSRME]

Lovely Tank!

[LukFox]

Now THAT is something I'd love to have! I've always really loved wrasses, so your tank is just absolutely stunning!

[Thurge]

:sad1:
Should have gotten the Scotts as That is the Fairy I origionally really wanted, but my loca reef shop has a hella time getting ahold of them.
Beautiful pic. but it hurts, hurts bad. :)


What about then the wrasses grow up and mature? Are you looking at future dominance fights, or will the subordinant males stay subordinant?

[FishF00d]

I myself didn't has as much luck. Probably because they were all the same size. I puchased a Rose Scale as my first fish in my new setup and about a month later purchased a filiment wrasse and tri-color. Those two got along fine but the Rose didn't like either of them. The filiment only lasted a few days and I thought the other two were getting along fine. I guess two weeks ago I came home from work and didn't see the tri-colored wrasse. I was looking all over. I then opened the center doors on the canopy and there he was fried by the MH. I have a center brace that i thought a wrasse would be able to flop off of if he jumped up there. I'm sure the rosy had something to do with this becuase he would never let the tri-colored along. I wanted a few wrasses but i'm not sure if i want to attempt it. The Rose Scale has grown rather large in a short period of time and have become the dominant fish in the tank.

[Rothie]

I'm getting a Scott's and a Lineatus next week.Both are male and very large.Are these too similar in size and shape to go into the same aquarium?They will be quarantined seperately.

[bronco7777]

Two completely different colored fish. The Lineatus is purple orange while the Scott's is turqouise blue.

It's similar color patterns mixed with same size that create some problems.

Scotts with Lineatus is not a problem. I have that combination right now in my aquarium

[Rothie]

Thank you-

[unicornis]

Wow awesome fairies tank.... I am gonna do that with my existing setup.... I love fairies.. They are good dither fish, they are hardy, feed readily, have nice attitude and usually compatible with each others....

[unicornis]

Will be getting a few rarer fairies later... right now the one coming my way is a alpha male flame wrasse.....

Will it be ok with my alpha male yellow fin fairy and my lubbocki fairy??

Will be adding lineatus in near future and also the labouti.....