Description:
The Sixline wrasse is a small, attractive member of the wrasse family.  Main part of body is blue with 6 horizontal gold stripes.  The head and belly may have a purple hue to it and the base of the tail is green.  The eyes have two white horizontal strips through them. The body is robust looking in a healthy specimen

Natural Environment:
Comes from the Indio-Pacific region.

Care:
Reef Suitability:  Sixline wrasses are excellent additions to a reef tank.  Their small size makes them especially suitable for smaller tanks.  They spend the day foraging the life rock looking for food, but never bother corals.  They are a shy species and are normally seen constantly darting in and out of the rockwork.  They need plenty of hiding places to feel comfortable. They have been reported to eat the parasitic snails (family Pyramidellidae) that sometimes infest clams as well as some nuisance flatworms.  Large specimens have been reported to eat ornamental shrimps.  I have never witnessed any such behavior in my own tanks.