General
Very secretive fish, will not be on the display much. Best to avoid keeping them with boisterous fish which could stop them feeding.
Keep in a peaceful tank.
Keep in a peaceful tank.
Yellow banded possum wrasse
- Added by Dave_P
- Create date
- Latin
- Wetmorella nigropinnata
- Family
- Labridae
- Fishbase Url
- http://www.fishbase.org/summary/4870
- Maximum Size
- 8cm, 3"
- Minimum Tank Size
- Up to 50 Litres
- Care level
- Easy
- Reef Compatibility
- Yes
- Group compatibility
- Keep singly
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Compatibility with hard corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with soft corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with Invertabrates
- No Issues
- Feeding
- Feeds off tiny worms and crustasceans off live rock. Also can be fed mysid and red plankton and flake
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Origin (from Fishbase)
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to the Marquesan and Pitcairn islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia.
Item information
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