• Name:

    Potters Wrasse

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  • Family: Labridae
  • Species: Wrasse
  • Scientific Name: Macropharyngodon geoffroyi
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Also Know As:

| Potters Leopard Wrasse

| Shortnose Wrasse

| Geoffroys Wrasse

General info about Potters Wrasse

The Potter's Wrasse it has an orange-peach body with numerous bright blue markings. An aquarium with peaceful tank mates and well established live rock and sand is ideal, as these fishes prey upon small invertebrates (copepods and amphipods). The Potters Leopard Wrasse must be housed in an aquarium that has at least a two-inch layer of fine sand as these fishes bury themselves in the substrate at night for protection.

Caution with Potters Wrasse

Wrasse are considered jumpers make sure your aquarium has a tight-fitting canopy or screen cover to prevent the Wrasse from jumping out of your aquarium. Wrasse have been known to jump through the smallest of holes in a canopy. 

Wrasses prefer to have a 2" (5cm) sandbed to allow them to burrow into the sand to sleep or when they feel like they are in danger. Some people with bare bottom tanks have also added a Tupperware with a 2" deep sand bed to accommodate the wrasse's needs. 

They are generally peaceful but may display aggression towards members of the same species.

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Potters Wrasse Wrasse Labridae Macropharyngodon geoffroyi The Potter's Wrasse it has an orange-peach body with numerous bright blue markings. An aquarium with peaceful tank mates and well established live rock and sand is ideal, as these fishes prey upon small invertebrates (copepods and amphipods). The Potters Leopard Wrasse must be housed in an aquarium that has at least a two-inch layer of fine sand as these fishes bury themselves in the substrate at night for protection. PalaciosAn

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