Let Me ID Your Wrasse!

[evolved]

I recall some at RAP the year before last around $40, but the $75-90 range is more typical.

 

[MIKE NY]

Ornate wrasses sport far more color than the above photos, although that does depict the markings.

Ornate leopards have green and red hues, here is an example:

male:

My male Ornate looks just like this with the first couple of its dorsal spikes bright red. I grew it from a baby looking like your second pic and is a few years old now and about5-6" big. Its a bit of a bully towards all my other Leopards not allowing any of them to turn male. Luckily I like the female colorations too.

 

[maroonman]

Ook.
Ive got this guy..not my pic. Mine is the blury pic, he is still shy to the camera. But this is spot on what he looks like.
What is your id?

 

[eatbreakfast]

Ook.
Ive got this guy..not my pic. Mine is the blury pic, he is still shy to the camera. But this is spot on what he looks like.
What is your id?

Cirrhilabrus cf. cyanopleura, it is often mislabeled as a female C. solerensis, but the fish pictured is definitely a male.

 

[evolved]

^ +1

 

[KoleTang]

Cirrhilabrus cf. cyanopleura, it is often mislabeled as a female C. solerensis, but the fish pictured is definitely a male.

Is this cf. cyanopleura or solorensis? Had it for about a year and it disappeared into the ether one day.

 

[evolved]

^ cf. cyanopleura

 

[KoleTang]

^ cf. cyanopleura

Thanks Hunter. What type of lifespan do they have? It was a big guy at about 5". Wondering if it may have just been old; knowing now that it was a large male.

It was the boss in the tank. One day it just sat in a hole in the rock and stayed there for about 3 days. Never saw it again.

 

[maroonman]

Ok 1 more.

 

[maroonman]

As you can tell..very small.
Has me stump

 

[eatbreakfast]

Ok 1 more.

Cant tell for sure from those pics, but I would say most likely a female C. pylei from Cebu. If not that then possibly female C. rubrimarginatus, but I am leaning toward pylei.

 

[Aquaph8]

Gotta be pylei

 

[maroonman]

So for $9 ...that was a score.
Thanks yall. She has been eating like a pig in QT.

 

[evolved]

Thanks Hunter. What type of lifespan do they have? It was a big guy at about 5". Wondering if it may have just been old; knowing now that it was a large male.

It was the boss in the tank. One day it just sat in a hole in the rock and stayed there for about 3 days. Never saw it again.

Could well have been old age.

Lifespan is sooo debatable, and I have heard so many numbers thrown all over the board with Cirrhilabrus. Personally, I feel with larger species such as this, ~10 years is probably about right. Although I'd be interested to hear TJ's thoughts on this too ( eatbreakfast ).

Gotta be pylei

x3, agree!

 

[eatbreakfast]

Could well have been old age.

Lifespan is sooo debatable, and I have heard so many numbers thrown all over the board with Cirrhilabrus. Personally, I feel with larger species such as this, ~10 years is probably about right. Although I'd be interested to hear TJ's thoughts on this too ( eatbreakfast ).

I feel that 10yrs may be possible, but circumstances would have to be near perfect with the fish being acquired at a very small size, as well as being in a mellow tank without other wrasses, and you would have to be very lucky. I have never seen a Cirrhilabrus live that long, but most I see cross my path as males or at least mature females. I, personally, would put the number in the 5-7yr range, with smaller species on the low end and larger on the high end.

I hope to see this put to the test as one of my customers bought a teeny C. roseafascia three years ago this summer and it is only the last couple of weeks beginning its transition to a male, so at this pace it may make close to 10yrs.

 

[evolved]

I should have clairified; I was assuming juvi to death when I said ~10 years (for the larger species).

And I agree the smaller species will be a few years less.

 

[wordflo]

Please ID - Is it a fairy, Flasher or else wrasse

Trying to ID fish. Was told it's either in the fairy or flasher wrasse family but can't seem to ID. It has a black dot & white underbelly.

 

[evolved]

I need a better picture, but I lean towards a female Paracheilinus.

 

[babyjess210]

Help Please

 

[eatbreakfast]

Help Please

Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis, yours is a male.