Bird Wrasse: A Complete Care Guide
- May 22, 2022
- Anshika Mishra
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In this article, we will learn everything about the Bird Wrasse. This is an excellent fish in your tank and a unique and fast swimming one. So, this fish will keep your tank filled with life and keep everyone entertained.
Bird Wrasse
Prices: You will usually spend about $60 to get one of these. They can be a bit expensive for new reefers.
Tank Size: Keeping them in a tank at 120-gallon incapacity is recommended, mainly because of how active they are swimming. A 120-gallons gives you about 6-feet long, thus giving the fish plenty of room to swim back and forth.
Care Level: It is a pretty easy fish to care for. Most of the time, people like to have this as their first fish because it is very hardy, eats quickly, and overall a great beginner fish.
Temperament: It is a giant Wrasse, and with larger Wrasse, you'll definitely see them become a hull of the tank, so be cautious whenever you have smaller fish that do not hold their own in the tank.
Reef Compatibility: With caution. So, it will not eat your coral, but it might hunt prey around the coral and peck on it by accident. Moreover, it will eat your crustation and smaller fish.
Water Parameter
- Temperature: 71-78
- dKH: 8-12
- pH: 8.1-8.4
- Salinity: 1.020-1.025
Appearance
Maximum Size: This is a giant fish. It can get about 10-12 inches most of the time in the tank. So, you are looking at a very large and active fish, so make sure you have enough room in the tank to accommodate them.
Colors: The males are in deep-blue and green coloration, they are beautiful, and the females are half-white and half-black with little specks on them. But still, a beautiful fish to have in your tank.
Diet
They are carnivores, and they use their long beak nose to eat skinnier worms in the rocks and sand bed. They will also go for your crustaceans and can even be a bully to your smaller fish, especially whenever it is eating time. They will be the first ones up, trying to smack them around and getting to the food first.
So, you want the other fishes in the tank to help their own first and not be bullied by that Wrasse.
Compatability
They can be paired with a male and female if they are added to the tank simultaneously. If not, it's worth ensuring that there is only one Bird Wrasse in the tank. Otherwise, you'll have to deal with a lot of aggression.
They do better in the fish-only tanks and even predator tanks.
In Conclusion
You will be a more extended tank because they are an active swimmer; however, they have plenty of live rocks to search for the prey and hide in when needed. WE have seen cases where they are timid at the beginning of their introduction to the tank.
Since they are prone to jump, it is better to keep a glass lid on the tank all the time, especially when first introduced.
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