The Sixstripe Wrasse is both beautiful and active. With it's six distinct, horizontal blue lines overlaid against an orange body, this member of the Labridae family brings a zip of colour to any marine reef aquarium. This is especially true when a courting male Sixstripe Wrasse displays an increased colour intensity. It is the active darting amongst rock outcroppings and corals that most attracts onlookers to the Sixstripe Wrasse. Also known as the Sixline Wrasse, Pseudocheilinus hexataenia is native to the reefs of the Indo-Pacific and the coast of Fiji. In these places the Sixstripe Wrasse forages amongst corals and rocks for foods, mainly keeping to itself. In the home aquarium, the Sixstripe Wrasse requires a peaceful environment with a generous supply of hiding places and live rock on which they can forage for food. It is here that the Sixstripe Wrasse will search for live foods in the form of small crustaceans such as pyramidellid snails (clam parasites), urchins, and commensal flatworms. The Sixstripe Wrasse is also known to feed on unwanted pests on live rock, such as bristleworms.
Though generally peaceful, the Sixstripe Wrasse may act aggressively towards more peaceful varieties of wrasse and other easily-intimidated fish, especially if inadequately fed or if its habitat is void of places in which it can hide.
Diet for the Sixstripe Wrasse should include vitamin enriched frozen mysis shrimp, vitamin enriched frozen brine shrimp, and other meaty foods along with a high quality marine flake and marine pellet food.
Care Level: Easy
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Color Form: Blue, Green, Orange
Diet: Carnivore
Reef Compatible: Yes
Water Conditions: sg 1.020-1.025, 23-26° C, dKH 8-12, pH 8.1-8.4
Max. Size: 8cm
Family: Labridae
Minimum Tank Size: 250L
