- Location
- Queens
Love this fish but everything I read about them says they will make quick meals of inverts. How true is this? I would love to get one, but I love to watch shrimp, crabs, & snails do their thing.
Coris Gaimard
- Thread starter FocusReefing
- Start date
- Location
- Queens
Anyone have any experience with these?..
- Location
- Garden city
Got a pic?
- Location
- Queens
Don't have one. Just curious about peoples experience with these. Also known as red coris wrasse.
- Location
- Long Island
If everything you've read says they'll eat inverts then common sense would tell you they'll eat inverts.
- Location
- Queens
Do you have experience with this species? If so then, a simple summary of your experience would more than suffice. However if not then this is less then helpful.
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- Location
- Huntington
I wouldn't advise getting this fish for your reef. I think there is a lot of luck involved in success stories with species such as this. If you want to talk to someone who has one in their reef get in touch with KathyC, she has had one in her reef for some time now.
- Location
- Wallingford, CT
As juveniles they are fine in a reef, but afterwards is another story.
- Location
- Queens
Thanks thats what I was wondering. I have a fowlr but I do keep inverts in it.
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
As adults they will eat hermits and snails etc. and also have the annoying habit of flipping things over looking for things to eat. Corals are safe though--except for the flipping part.
:bunny: Gimme a sec...
I'll get a pic up shortly..
Anyway, I LOVE this fish and yes, I have had mine in my reef for probably a good 3 years now.
As mentioned there is a downside, you cannot put ANYTHING on the sand bed. Forget owning a clam, forget coming home from the swap and sleeping that first night with the 'frag-junkyard' look on your sand until you get everything in place...lol
I can take the smallest frag and try and sneak it onto the rock work - while he is asleep in the sand bed - and guaranteed the following morning he wakes up looks around and knocks it down hoping these is some tasty pod under it.
I do intentionally leave a few pieces of rubble on the sand-bed for him to play with or else he will start going after bigger rocks, so you need to be VERY sure all rock-work is epoxied in place. It is AMAZING the strength this fish has and as he has grown (mine is a good 8" now) the leverage that body gives him to move rock is astonishing! :fish:
I have a blood shrimp and a clean shrimp in that tank (my 120), he has never messed with them, but they are adult sized. I do have snails in there also, but between the Coris & my Pink Spotted Goby (have never decided if he just flings them around or eats them) , I do have to bump up the population every now and then. He has never bothered with my hermits.
However - I DO keep him WELL fed, so I am sure that helps.
I will give him credit for keeping my sand-bed turned over between his sleeping habits and how he noses around in the sand all day.
Would I suggested keeping this fish...on the fence here, he is so strikingly beautiful on one hand and such a PITA on the other...it's a toss up...it more depends on what kind of patience you have
I'll get a pic up shortly..
Anyway, I LOVE this fish and yes, I have had mine in my reef for probably a good 3 years now.
As mentioned there is a downside, you cannot put ANYTHING on the sand bed. Forget owning a clam, forget coming home from the swap and sleeping that first night with the 'frag-junkyard' look on your sand until you get everything in place...lol
I can take the smallest frag and try and sneak it onto the rock work - while he is asleep in the sand bed - and guaranteed the following morning he wakes up looks around and knocks it down hoping these is some tasty pod under it.
I do intentionally leave a few pieces of rubble on the sand-bed for him to play with or else he will start going after bigger rocks, so you need to be VERY sure all rock-work is epoxied in place. It is AMAZING the strength this fish has and as he has grown (mine is a good 8" now) the leverage that body gives him to move rock is astonishing! :fish:
I have a blood shrimp and a clean shrimp in that tank (my 120), he has never messed with them, but they are adult sized. I do have snails in there also, but between the Coris & my Pink Spotted Goby (have never decided if he just flings them around or eats them) , I do have to bump up the population every now and then. He has never bothered with my hermits.
However - I DO keep him WELL fed, so I am sure that helps.
I will give him credit for keeping my sand-bed turned over between his sleeping habits and how he noses around in the sand all day.
Would I suggested keeping this fish...on the fence here, he is so strikingly beautiful on one hand and such a PITA on the other...it's a toss up...it more depends on what kind of patience you have
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Really? That's pretty cool! but the part about the snails and hermit are a turn off...Ive read that they aren't 100% reef safe but i figured they were like flame angels and it was hit or miss based on who came fish the corals or the fish...
hmmm...great read Kathy thanks for the info. my shrimp are all full grown as well, as for my sally crab i would not cry is it disappeared. my rock work is not tight as in i have alot of large pieces so there aren't any tight crevasses just large caves, and nothing is epoxied but the weight holds them down, my lightest rock probably weighs 20lbs. but I'm going to poke things to be sure they secure. how fast did your mature?
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