Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse - Medium

The male Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse has a bright yellow and red body with blue, brown and white bands. The females are usually is burgundy with less noticeable stripes and not as colourful as the males. The males colour will intensify when they are mating.

This is a great schooling fish that are easy to care for and don’t have specialized diets.

You can keep these Wrasses in groups of up to 3 females to every 1 male and they will usually school together. They have a peaceful temperament and so are suitable for reef tanks.

In the wild, these Wrasses live around Indonesia and the Western Pacific.

Tank Recommendations for Lubbock’s Fairy Wrasse

The smallest tank size that we recommend for these wrasses is 189 litre (50 gallons), but of course, a larger aquarium isn’t a problem.

You can keep Lubbock’s Fairy Wrasses in either fish-only or reef aquariums.

They should have plenty of places to hide which live rock excellent for. This will allow you to create shaded areas for them to hide in cracks and crevices if they feel threatened.

These fish will also like to bury themselves, so a sand substrate will is a good choice. They do this when they are scared and often when they sleep so that they feel safe.

As with many wrasses these fish do like to jump, so a well-fitting lid on your aquarium is also recommended.

Suitable Tank Buddies

This is a peaceful community fish and so you can keep small groups of the same species together. You should add them to the tank at the same time, to avoid any territorial disputes.

In general semi-aggressive tankmates work out best for these wrasses.

Usually Compatible

As well as other Lubbock’s Fairy Wrasses you can keep these fish with large Angelfish, Tangs, Boxfish and Damselfish.

Sometime Compatible

These Wrasses are usually fine with invertebrates unlike many wrasses but still keep an eye on them. They will be compatible with most fish as they are peaceful and so will generally get on okay with other fish.

Rarely Compatible

Fish to watch out for are larger fish that may want to eat them like Sharks and Rays. You shouldn’t keep them with slow swimming fish either like Seahorses or Pipefish. As they don’t like fish that are quick swimmers that can compete for food too.

Feeding Your Lubbock’s Fairy Wrasse

The Multicolor Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse in nature eats a carnivorous diet including plankton. In captivity as well as live foods like mysis and brine shrimp and chopped chunks of meaty foods including raw shrimp, squid, clam and mussels.

You should also occasionally supplement this some herbivore diet, ie flake or pellet food.