Allens Wrasse

jhnrb

Reef enthusiast
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.

Allens Wrasse.jpg
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Back
Top