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[EricLibs]

Unidentified flasher wrasse.... Would love to know species and sex ?

 

[evolved]

Unidentified flasher wrasse.... Would love to know species and sex ?

P. carpenteri or P. mccoskeri - need to see the fins a bit better in order to distinguish. How many dorsal filaments are present?
It's a male, regardless.

 

[EricLibs]

P. carpenteri or P. mccoskeri - need to see the fins a bit better in order to distinguish. How many dorsal filaments are present?
It's a male, regardless.

Thank you for the reply !!! so hard to get a picture of but it looks to me like there's just one small dorsal filament... If that's the case it would make it a sub adult male mccoskeri correct ?

 

[evolved]

Thank you for the reply !!! so hard to get a picture of but it looks to me like there's just one small dorsal filament... If that's the case it would make it a sub adult male mccoskeri correct ?

Correct- only 1 filament then mccoskeri; more than 1 is carpenteri.

 

[Dempsey941]

This guy at my LFS today was labeled "Assorted Fairy Wrasse", but I'm thinking its P.mccoskeri or carpenteri

 

[evolved]

This guy at my LFS today was labeled "Assorted Fairy Wrasse", but I'm thinking its P.mccoskeri or carpenteri

Wrong genus.
Cirrhilabrus rubeus

 

[Dempsey941]

yep looking at LA its the same guy, he's got some attitude kept those cinnamon clowns in the back in check.

 

[Righteous]

Hi Hunter... was reading through your reef safe wrasse article (which is very informative)... and wanted to know what one of the wrasses pictured was... couldn’t find it anywhere. This is the photo from your article:

 

[evolved]

Hi Hunter... was reading through your reef safe wrasse article (which is very informative)... and wanted to know what one of the wrasses pictured was... couldn’t find it anywhere. This is the photo from your article:

H. timorensis, male.

 

[Righteous]

H. timorensis, male.

He’s beautiful... can I ask where you got him?

 

[evolved]

He’s beautiful... can I ask where you got him?

Thanks. A fish long of the past now, but from Diver's Den maybe in... 2011?

 

[dragon99]

C. shutmani? (I hope)

 

[evolved]

C. shutmani? (I hope)

95% sure, yes.

 

[Drew Hitt]

Hey just wondered if I could get an ID on this guy it was sold it to me as a Christmas wrasse...

 

[evolved]

Hey just wondered if I could get an ID on this guy it was sold it to me as a Christmas wrasse...

Halichoeres biocellatus

 

[Dempsey941]

LFS said it was a trade in

 

[evolved]

LFS said it was a trade in

Halichoeres chloropterus
Probably traded in as a bully.

 

[xRob]

Apologies for the terrible photo but: mccoskeri right? Just double checking as he's recently coloured up a lot, assuming finishing the transition to full male and with it has come quite the attitude change towards my p. flavianalis (also full male)! I wish I had taken the chance to add a third flasher species back when I stocked my tank in order to balance any aggression from the most dominant fish, I wonder if it's too risky now.

 

[evolved]

Apologies for the terrible photo but: mccoskeri right? Just double checking as he's recently coloured up a lot, assuming finishing the transition to full male and with it has come quite the attitude change towards my p. flavianalis (also full male)! I wish I had taken the chance to add a third flasher species back when I stocked my tank in order to balance any aggression from the most dominant fish, I wonder if it's too risky now.

I'd need to see the fins - could be either mccoserki or carpenteri from that view.
Adding a third could be possible now, but best done with an acclimation box.

 

[xRob]

I'd need to see the fins - could be either mccoserki or carpenteri from that view.
Adding a third could be possible now, but best done with an acclimation box.

Thanks, it only has the one filament so must be mccoskeri. If I introduce a third species do you think it would be likely to calm things down a bit by spreading the aggression? Since the mccoskers finished his transition my yellowfin has pretty much adopted permanent stress colouration and tends to only come out during feeding time before being chased back into hiding. I was hoping the situation would improve on its own but after a few weeks there has been no change.