FOWLR wrasse setup Qs

[BIG-G]

Thank you for the advice. The dietary needs are my largest concern, I've never kept a fish that wouldn't eventually eat pellets. Did you enjoy the personality of the dragon? Was it gregarious or more shy? Dragon wrasse is the frontrunner for this tank in my mind. I've heard they love crustaceans and plan to add copious numbers of live sand fleas and crabs to this tank.

The one I had was a small juvenile he was always out and about searching the rocks in and out of crevices.
Because it was smaller I could feed lots of frozen, mysis shrimp, krill, market shrimp.

I only had him for a few months. I was really after the Harlequin so when one came my way I traded.

BTW, The dragon didn’t wait for night to head underneath the sand he would often just dive underneath. A piece of shrimp would always coax him out.
I was using a medium fine crushed coral, live sand mixture.
I would say the grain size was somewhere around the same a pool filter sand.
With some finer sand mixed.

 

[Gourami Swami]

Wound the carib-sea arag-alive be considered crush coral or sand? It's pretty fine grit stuff, and I've liked it in my other marine tank thus far.

the different colors and types have different grain size. For example the Bahama oolite and fiji pink are both arag-alive, but the oolite is much finer. The finer grains will be better for burying wrasses, but I find it is too fine so powerheads blow it everywhere. I went with fiji pink in my latest reef and it is much better as far as that goes. Any of the arag=alive stuff should be OK for the wrasse, just avoid the crushed coral substrates that are more like the size of small gravel.

 

[Backfromthedead]

Good stuff thanks guys. I'll most likely go with something like ~100 lbs of Delaware sand+couple bags of the arag alive. Probably be a month or two before tank is up and running so I got some time to think about the stocking.