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07-02-2008, 12:14 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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|  6 line wrasse
looking into getting one for my 135, are they aggressive to other fish???
what do they eat?
are they good with like 5 or 6 tangs and a bunch of other fish???
let me know!
ohh and i would love to see peoples pictures of theres, and any other wrasses that are fairly cheap and look great, i might consider them! | 
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07-02-2008, 12:18 AM
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also what do you all think about it with a green mandarin??? will it out compete it in a 135? yes no? | |
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07-02-2008, 05:47 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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The sixline is a fairly peaceful fish. They are fascinating to watch and fairly hardy...Mine will eat anything I feed the tank. I would not recommend more then one in your tank. I tried to put a yellow finned fairy wrasse in the same tank and the sixline nearly killed it. Thank goodness we have other sw tanks up, we were able to get the fairy wrasse out and put her in one of those tanks. That is another beauty, the fairy wrasse....
Below is our sixline along with a pagoda coral and pulsing xenia...  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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07-02-2008, 05:51 AM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CT Age: 28
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Nemo, just search any of Scott's (OmarD) old threads. He posted more pics and stories of his old 6 line than anyone else, I think. You may want to PM to ask if he had it in with a mandarin. I know they'd compete for pods, but the 6 line will eat other foods too besides just pods. _________  | |
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07-02-2008, 06:07 AM
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| | Ocellaris Clown
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tulsa, Ok Age: 28
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i know a guy here in town that has his mandarin eating cyclops which is what he feeds his corals anyway if that makes you feel better about it they are capable of getting to eat frozen/live foods
The new 6 line I just got is being a punk and will only eat live foods, so I'm having to use brine shrimp, tonight im going to try 50/50 of frozen mysis and live brine to see if he'll go for the mysis
Never seen either of my 6 lines ever go after another inhabitant
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24G JBJ Nano, 20# Live Sand, 20# Live Rock
Rose BTA, Xenia, Shrooms, Green Candy Cane, multiple types of zoas and palys
Blue/Green Chromis, 2x Black & White Percs, Dragon Goby, Six Line Wrasse
90g DSA - D.O.B. 11-4-08
ASM G2 skimmer, mag18 return, MRC CR1 CA Reactor, Phos Reactor, Tek 8x54 T5HO
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07-02-2008, 06:46 AM
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| | Plankton
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I have 2 in my tank, been in for about 5 months now. They havent had any problems with other fish, I have tangs and other wrasse. They dont stop moving, below is the best pic I could get.  | |
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07-02-2008, 02:57 PM
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| | Millepora
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Chester, Pa Age: 23
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I love my six line as well! My is a little picky right now on food, I've chopped up some raw shrimp and he ate that, he also ate some frozen brine shrimp, but he doesn't always eat when I feed. I do see him picking at the lr and walls of the tank, so I assume he is eating something. No problem with other fish
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Equipment: 55 gal, Remora Skimmer w/ maxi jet 1200 pump, 4x54w T5 lighting, 2 super actinics, 2 12,000K actinic white bulbs, 55+ lbs fiji live rock...
Inhabitants: Ocellaris Clownfish, Yellow Tailed Damsel, Six Line Wrasse, Yellow Watchman Goby, 3 Chromis, Crocea Clam, Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
Corals: Zoas, Yellow Fiji Leather, Pineapple Brain, Frogspawn, Pearl Bubble, Blastomussa Merleti, Monti, GSP, Green Psammacora | |
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07-02-2008, 04:20 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: the valley, CA Age: 23
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i had a sixline in my 50g for about a year until it decided it wanted to kill my oscellaris clown. in the end the sixline and the clown were destroyed be a close loop pump i was using for circulation. unfortunately my prefilter holes were too large for the two. it was a sad time but i really enjoyed the personality of the sixline. i currently have a female leopard wrasse that i purchased last week and she is beautiful with a great personality. no luck with frozen food though; thank God i have infinite types of pods in the 75g it is in. they never stop moving and are a beautiful fish, i would consider one.
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50 gallon reef tank. coralife 36 in 96w 10,000 k/96w actinic/ lunar lights, 40lr, 4inches ls, RemoraAquaC skimmer, closed loop flow, refugium, oscellaris clown, bluegreen reef chromis, green mandarin,turbo snails/reef crabs, sand sifting stars, corals: blue striped mushrooms, toadstool mushroom,yellowgreen cup, purple gorgonian, greenblue pipe organ, favites brain, torch, frogspawn, sebae anemone.
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07-02-2008, 04:33 PM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CT Age: 28
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I would only recommend a leopard wrasse if you can find one that the LFS has had for over a month and eats frozen or freeze dried food. Ours ate frozen (thawed) mysis and spirulina at first, but then eventually started to go after and eat small freeze-dried mysis. Now she will even eat (or nip at) the seaweed strips along with the tangs. It has a good personality, and doesn't bother any of our other fish (see my sig). It needs at least a 2-1/2 to 3 inch sand bed to sleep in, crushed coral or bare bottom isn't suitable for them. | |
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07-02-2008, 04:48 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bogie  Nemo, just search any of Scott's (OmarD) old threads. He posted more pics and stories of his old 6 line than anyone else, I think. You may want to PM to ask if he had it in with a mandarin. I know they'd compete for pods, but the 6 line will eat other foods too besides just pods. |
Ok...to save you trouble of searching...
Post: I love my sixline!  
Could see how there may be a problem with them competing for same food in a newly established tank...but while Mandarin has particular eating habits, the wrasse will eat anything.
Wrasse never had problem with other fish in tank including mandarin.  Pseudocheilinus hexataenia (Six Line Wrasse) - Sept '05 Fish of the Month
(Matt Rogers) Family Reef Tank - Sixline Wrasse Sixline Pics
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12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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