Let Me ID Your Wrasse!

Joker79 · Dec 20, 2015

Was sold to me as a blue sided fairy wrasse. Is this what it is?

eatbreakfast · Dec 20, 2015

Joker79 said:
Was sold to me as a blue sided fairy wrasse. Is this what it is?

Nope, it's. A male Cirrhilabrus lubbocki, lubbock's fairy wrasse, Bali variant.

Joker79 · Dec 20, 2015

eatbreakfast said:
Nope, it's. A male Cirrhilabrus lubbocki, lubbock's fairy wrasse, Bali variant.

Wow that was quick! Thanks man!
I truly appreciate it!

eatbreakfast · Dec 20, 2015

Joker79 said:
Wow that was quick! Thanks man!
I truly appreciate it!

Just happened to be looking at r2r when you posted.

Joker79 · Dec 20, 2015

Hahahaaa. Sweet!

evolved · Dec 21, 2015

eatbreakfast said:
This is P. filamentosus, the filamented flasher, male.

This is a hybrid P. filamentosus x P. flavianalis, male.

I've stared a while now, and I don't see the hybridization on the last one. Both appear just filamentosus to me.
TJ, did I miss something?

eatbreakfast · Dec 21, 2015

evolved said:
I've stared a while now, and I don't see the hybridization on the last one. Both appear just filamentosus to me.
TJ, did I miss something?

No, I did, I was looking on my phone and didn't click on the pic, I only saw thered dorsal filament, so one dorsal filament and a lunate caudal, so... but when you posted I went back and enlarged the pic to see the purple ones too.

Duke4Life · Dec 23, 2015

Here's been my other debate

eatbreakfast · Dec 23, 2015

Duke4Life said:
Here's been my other debate

Thats the C. cf temminckii Cebu variant that was collected in Northern Philippines and is being called katherinae in the trade.

MIKE NY · Dec 28, 2015

any help Iding this Cirrhilabrus species fairy wrasse..TIA

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 28, 2015

MIKE NY said:
any help Iding this Cirrhilabrus species fairy wrasse..TIA

[/URL][/IMG]

Pic doesn't work.

twon8 · Dec 28, 2015

C. melanomarginatus

eatbreakfast · Dec 28, 2015

twon8 said:
C. melanomarginatus

Agreed.

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 28, 2015

MIKE NY said:
any help Iding this Cirrhilabrus species fairy wrasse..TIA

Where did you get him from?

MIKE NY · Dec 28, 2015

LFS and was labeled a Lubbock's...
thanks guys...its looks very similar to a Scotts and probably the same temperament.

eatbreakfast · Dec 28, 2015

MIKE NY said:
LFS and was labeled a Lubbock's...
thanks guys...its looks very similar to a Scotts and probably the same temperament.

Yes, very similar temperament.

schmoore89 · Dec 28, 2015

Bright redish/pink with a few blue stripes.

eatbreakfast · Dec 29, 2015

schmoore89 said:
Bright redish/pink with a few blue stripes.

Without seeing the dorsal and anal fins it is hard to pin down, but it is a flasher wrasse with a rounded caudal and a white belly, so in order of likelyhood it could be carpenter's, mckosker, or flavianalis. Lineopunctatus also has a rounded caudal, but is generally darker.