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Talk to you about Rass. Now,
if you're looking to add a
beautiful pop of color to your tank,
Rass might be the way to go. Now, when
it comes to different groups of fish,
Wrasses are one of the most
diverse groups that you'll find,
but we're going to stay focused on the
ones that you might keep in your home
aquarium. Before I get
into it. I'm curious.
Have you ever kept a wrasse at home or
what is your favorite wrasse that you
would always want to keep,
but haven't had the chance yet leave
a comment below and let me know.
So as always, I'm going to try
and break them down into groups.
Let's get started with the ferry
Rass. Those are years of wrasse.
Um, for example, the red headed
wrasse, um, the Laboutes Fairy, RAs,
which is actually one of my favorite.
Wrasses the first wrasse that I ever
fell in love with was the Laboutes fairy
Wrasses. The patterns on them are
absolutely stunning. Next step,
you have your Scott's wrasse
and your exquisite wrasee.
Two more that have just
beautiful, beautiful colors.
Next up are your flasher wrasse. Those
are the pair of shallowness Rass.
Um, in that group is going to be your
carpenters, RAs, your McCoskers wrasses,
um, and red tail wrasse all fall
under that flasher wrasse category.
Okay, next up we have our
pseudo shallowness wrasse.
Those are gonna be ones like your
mystery, wrasse and your six line wrasse.
If you watch in the back of this video,
you might see my six line wrasse swimming
around eating some of those vermited
in my tank. Next up we have
your Hallett chorus, Rass.
Now this is not very scientific,
but I like to think of them
as almost smalled nose wrasse.
If you look real closely at
the tip of their nose, to me,
it always looks like their nose and the
end of their mouth is kind of pointed up
like I'm too good for you.
So in that category is going
to be your yellow Rass and
your, um, Christmas Rass next up. Um,
the category is possum Rass.
So those guys are going to be a little
bit smaller than what Mirella wrasse I'm
like that sharp nose, possum RAs.
And there's a few others as well.
Now, next way of breaking them down,
some wrasse actually look differently. Um,
the males versus the females.
So wrasse that fall into that category
are going to be the bird wrasse.
That's another one of my
favorite of the larger Rass, um,
flame Rass or another one.
The males look good bit different than
the females and leopard wrasse. Also,
there's a big difference in color
and pattern for all of those wrasses.
Now,
another type of grouping that you
could put wrasses in is wrasses that
change based on their age. So, um,
the dragon wrasse and
the red cores, wrasses,
both the juveniles of the species
are going to look different than the
adults. And this is something.
If you are going and purchasing your fish
at a local fish store, or even online,
a lot of times,
they will differentiate on their labeling
and let you know if you're looking at
the juvenile or at the adult,
but always do your research
before you buy your fish. Now,
you may have heard that some wrasses
burrow in the sand and Rass that fall into
that burrowing category are the Halla
chorus wrasse. So like your Christmas RAs,
um, and your melanoma's wrasses, those
guys will Barrow burrow in the sand.
Also the beautiful feminist RAs is
another one that buries itself in the
sand, as well as those chorus grasses.
So just something to keep in mind,
if you want to add arrest, um,
make sure if it needs sand,
that it has sand. Now,
when it comes to the
size tank you need, um,
even though wrasse as a
group are fairly small fish,
you're going to need to give them a lot
of space. Cause they do like to swim.
Now wrasses has like the six
lane RAs, like I've gotten here,
they're going to stay
small about three inches.
So you could get away with
about a 55 gallon tank,
but some of your other wrasses on
average run about five to seven inches in
length. So you want to go with about
a hundred plus gallon tank. Now,
if you do have Rass like some
of your red chorus wrasse,
or your bird wrasses, those guys get
pretty big over a foot in length.
So you want to make sure they
have a lot of space, 125 gallons.
Minimum is the tank size that
they are going to need. All right,
we've talked about different
wrasses, different tank sizes.
Let's go talk about their diet. Come
on, follow me to the kitchen. Alright,
let's talk about what you
can feed your wrasses.
Now I'm curious before we get into
this, if you have a RAs at home,
what is their favorite food to eat?
Leave a comment below and let me know.
All right. So wrasses
are carnivores, right?
Not to say that they
won't eat some vegetables,
but primarily they're going
to eat those meaty foods. Now,
before we start talking about
the foods that you can buy,
I will tell you that that Rass are cool
and that they help take care of your
tank. So you can buy certain species of
grasses to help out with pests that are
already in your aquarium.
Like the six line wrasse,
they will eat fermented foods.
You can get yellow wrasse that are going
to help take care of bristle, worms,
and flatworms. And as
their name suggests clean,
cleaner wrasse will actually help to
clean parasites off of other fish in your
tank.
But something to be cautious of is that
there are some wrasses out there that do
eat coral and we'll eat some
of your shrimp and your crabs.
So make sure you do your research before
you start purchasing those. All right,
now let's get into all of the different
types of foods that you can buy, right?
So you've got your dry
foods such as these flakes,
and then you have your pellet foods as
always make sure you check and make sure
that the pellet is going to
fit into your fish's mouth.
Rass in particular have
relatively small mouths.
So you don't want to get a pellet
that's way too big for them to eat.
It's not something that you're going
to run into with the flake foods,
but definitely with pellets. It's
something to keep in mind. Now,
next up you have your DIY foods
and your gel foods. So, um,
I think new life spectrum makes some,
there's a couple other companies out
there that make the gel foods that you can
mix yourself. Dr. Tims is a DIY food,
but you also have foods like
mastic. That is that gel.
So these little guys, they
kind of look like gummies.
You smash them up and you can
put them in the rock work.
That's something great to,
to feed those grasses that
are naturally coral eaters.
If you do happen to get one and
have it in your Fowler tank,
this is a good replication of this
eating style that they would have in the
wild. Now next up is going
to be our frozen foods.
So you got a bunch of different
varieties that you can feed in.
It depends on the number of fish that
are in your tank that you're trying to
feed. So if you've got a small nano tank,
you might not want a giant
pack of PE my SIS like this,
but PE my SIS is a great
food for your Rass.
You can get blister packs.
I mentioned those before.
So this one by San Francisco Bay brand,
it's got a variety of different
foods in there for all sorts of reef
fishes, or you also have
ocean nutrition. Now,
one thing I like about these blister
packs is that it's all sealed.
So when you want to just feed
one little blister of food,
you pop it out and whole rest
of the package is sealed.
So that is your frozen
foods that you can feed
stand back up for me,
but one other cool food that
you can feed your Rass is
live foods, right?
So I mentioned live foods that might
already be in your tank and Copa pods are
actually one of those.
If you've ever cleaned your
filter floss or your filter socks,
you might've seen them jumping around,
but if you don't have any, don't worry,
you can always buy them. So, um,
this is one of the different brands
and we'll zoom in close, hopefully.
So you can see these little
guys hopping around in here. Um,
this is actually a pod habitat,
which I'm going to talk a little
about a little bit later. So, um,
just keep in mind that you can feed
your Rass live foods. All right,
let's jump on into talking about
different issues that you might encounter.
If you own wrasses. If
you want to own a wrasse,
there are some things that you should
know about Rass as a whole to help you
succeed, right? So once
they are established wrasse,
typically do great in tanks,
but it's that initial period of adjustment
where they encounter a lot of issues.
So I mentioned earlier that
several different types of
wrasse actually will bury
themselves in the sand.
And the reason they do this is if they're
feeling scared or they're threatened.
Um, and sometimes that's just
a behavior that they exhibit,
but if you've just set up a new tank,
um, and your tank isn't fully cycled,
sometimes they can all sorts of
bacterial infections and secondary
infections. So you want to make sure
you give your chance a good, um,
you take a good chance to cycle
it before you put fish in there.
And something else Rass in particular
with you can always put something like
this. It's going to help to
boost their immune system,
help give them a better chance
for success. Now, as a species,
wrasses tend to be a
little bit more sensitive.
So they like to jump a lot.
Now I would not recommend keeping
wrasses in any tank without a lid on it.
I can't tell you how many times I've
seen wrasse get up out of tanks.
Even that have lids. If
there's a teeny tiny space,
they will find a way to jump out and
nobody wants that next up. Um, I,
I mentioned that they
are pretty sensitive.
So you want to keep on top of your water
quality, but that goes with any fish.
So make sure that you are
doing your water testing,
doing your water changes as needed. That's
always very, very important next up.
Something that you can
see with Rass is, uh,
aggression issues and territorial
and behavioral issues with, um,
especially with alpha
males in a group. So, um,
keep that in mind when
you're purchasing fish.
And I'll talk a little bit more about
it in just a minute. Now, next up,
let's talk about different ways that you
can help make your fish's life the best
that it can possibly be. Right? So
that's talking about enrichment. Now,
when we were talking about food, I
mentioned, I pulled up this little thing,
so this is a pod habitat.
Now, if you look,
it's got a bunch of different
holes going this way and this way,
and the purpose of this is to provide a
house for all of those different little
types of pods that you might
have living in your tank.
And once a population will get
established and this will help, um,
it's a constant source of live food for
your wrasses to chase around an eight
and have fun doing that.
So something else you can do is
changing the flow in your tank last time
in our video about tanks,
I mentioned different power heads and
the settings that you can put on them,
but you can also use something like this.
It is a variable flow device. Typically
they're a lot larger, but vivid,
creative aquatics sense and gave
me this cute little key chain.
This offers different flow patterns
in your tank. It's pretty cool.
I've seen my fish kind of
playing in the flow from these.
So that's another great way to
add variety to your fish's tank.
Um, next up, when it comes to
feeding. So we talked about these, uh,
Grazer clips. Last time you can put your
frozen food in here and snap it closed,
and that's a different type of
way for those wrasse to eat.
And the same goes with those foods,
like mastic that you're going to put on
the glass or smashed in the rocks. Um,
it just gives them a little bit of
variety now in a diff in addition, yeah,
two ways that you can feed them.
You can feed them different foods.
You can feed them at different times.
All of those count as methods
of enrichment for your fish.
Um, something else,
if you just get a brand new wrasse
and it's in a quarantine tank,
you can always put
something in like PVC pipes.
That's another cool different habitat for
them to hang out in if they don't have
sand or if they don't have those rocks,
just a way to help them feel safe.
All right, let's talk
about tank mates, right?
Take mates are another good way to help
enrich your fish's life. So as always,
you can check out that fish
compatibility chart on Marine depot.com,
or you can just type it in and look
for what fish that you are thinking
about getting and putting with
RAs and seeing if they match. Um,
and there'll be compatible.
wrasses are good with a lot
of other different fishes,
but always check into your research.
First, one thing to keep in mind though,
is if you want more than one
of the same type of wrasses,
look to get one male. I had a whole
harem of females typically, um,
that keeps the male from
beating up on just one female.
And you don't want to have two males in
a group because they will fight. And it,
you know, you'll probably end up
losing a fish and nobody wants that.
So always do your research,
ask your local fish store.
That's all I got for this video.
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