FAMILY - Labridae
SCIENTIFIC NAME - Labropsis allleni
COMMON NAME - Allen’s, Allen’s Tubelip Wrasse
SIZE - 4 in (10 cm)
RANGE - Indo-Pacific, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 30 gal (113.5 L)
CARE LEVEL - Expert Only
TEMPERAMENT - Peaceful
FOODS AND FEEDING - Juveniles are facultative cleaners, adults feed on coral polyps. If you can get them to eat frozen they should be feed a variety of high quality marine frozen foods, such as enriched mysids, brine shrimp, squid, scallops, etc.
AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - Please leave this fish in the ocean.
REEF COMPATIBILITY - No
CAPTIVE CARE - This fish is difficult to feed as a juvenile because it only eats parasites and dead skin off of other fish, it can easily starve to death in an aquarium. As an adult the Allen’s wrasse eats the polyps of SPS corals, making them not reef safe. All wrasses are known jumpers so the top of the aquarium should be covered.
SCIENTIFIC NAME - Labropsis allleni
COMMON NAME - Allen’s, Allen’s Tubelip Wrasse
SIZE - 4 in (10 cm)
RANGE - Indo-Pacific, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 30 gal (113.5 L)
CARE LEVEL - Expert Only
TEMPERAMENT - Peaceful
FOODS AND FEEDING - Juveniles are facultative cleaners, adults feed on coral polyps. If you can get them to eat frozen they should be feed a variety of high quality marine frozen foods, such as enriched mysids, brine shrimp, squid, scallops, etc.
AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - Please leave this fish in the ocean.
REEF COMPATIBILITY - No
CAPTIVE CARE - This fish is difficult to feed as a juvenile because it only eats parasites and dead skin off of other fish, it can easily starve to death in an aquarium. As an adult the Allen’s wrasse eats the polyps of SPS corals, making them not reef safe. All wrasses are known jumpers so the top of the aquarium should be covered.
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