Let Me ID Your Wrasse!

[Rafael Fantelli]

In my opinion:
The carpenter looks a juvenile male;
The rubripinnis looks a female;
About the ruby head, I am more in doubt (brigth collors but short pelvic fin), maybe juvenile male.

What do you think about?

 

[eatbreakfast]

In my opinion:
The carpenter looks a juvenile male;
The rubripinnis looks a female;
About the ruby head, I am more in doubt (brigth collors but short pelvic fin), maybe juvenile male.

What do you think about?

A wrasse cannoht be both juvenile and male. They are sequential hermaphrodites. They start as neuter, transition to female, then thransition into male. If they have dorsal filaments and fin patterns.

The rubripinnis is still female, but nearing transition, as the spot on the caudal peduncle is beginning to fade.

The ruby head is a male. Female colors are much more muted.

 

[Rafael Fantelli]

A wrasse cannoht be both juvenile and male. They are sequential hermaphrodites. They start as neuter, transition to female, then thransition into male. If they have dorsal filaments and fin patterns.

The rubripinnis is still female, but nearing transition, as the spot on the caudal peduncle is beginning to fade.

The ruby head is a male. Female colors are much more muted.

I expressed myself wrongly....should have written "thransition into male" instead "juvenile male".

You hit the bull's eye with only one moment pictures! I noticed that the rubripinnis spot is fading during the last 2 or 3 weeks, and did not know what that meant.

And the carpenter, do you think is in thransition into male?

Thanks!

 

[eatbreakfast]

I expressed myself wrongly....should have written "thransition into male" instead "juvenile male".

You hit the bull's eye with only one moment pictures! I noticed that the rubripinnis spot is fading during the last 2 or 3 weeks, and did not know what that meant.

And the carpenter, do you think is in thransition into male?

Thanks!

The carpenter is an initial phase male, fully functional, the filaments haven't caught up yet..

 

[Rafael Fantelli]

fully functional

I believe this correlates with his current behavior.
Thanks a lot!

 

[evolved]

C. debelius.

[C. adornatus]

 

[Kyl]

Just want to say that all of you have been super great with helping a lot of us figure out what is what. A special thanks to both TJ @eatbreakfast and Hunter @evolved , I've been able to help some people locally avoid some wrasse stocking mistakes by pointing them here and getting ID's cleared up.

 

[evolved]

Just want to say that all of you have been super great with helping a lot of us figure out what is what. A special thanks to both TJ @eatbreakfast and Hunter @evolved , I've been able to help some people locally avoid some wrasse stocking mistakes by pointing them here and getting ID's cleared up.

My pleasure! And I always appreciate hearing stories like this! I much prefer to do this for education purposes over bragging rights.

 

[FDAWG]

ID?

 

[evolved]

ID?

Macropharyngodon moyeri

 

[FDAWG]

Macropharyngodon moyeri

That’s what I figured but the $24.99 price tag threw me off.

 

[evolved]

That’s what I figured but the $24.99 price tag threw me off.

They might have been misidentified along the way, or someone never knew what they had. Buy fast.

 

[mattzang]

 

[eatbreakfast]

Paracheilinus nursalim

 

[evolved]

P. nursalim. And until recently, was not known to be in a collectable region. But Cairns found some... Unsure where they might be headed though when it comes to export.

 

[Radman73]

That is one beautiful fish.

 

[Firedawg1983]

ID please. Maybe a solar fairy or ruby head wrasse idk. Male or female?

 

[evolved]

ID please

C. cf cyanopluera

 

[Firedawg1983]

C. cf cyanopluera

Thank you! That’s a male correct? Looks like it’s from the Bali region.

 

[Firedawg1983]

C. cf cyanopluera

Blue sided fairy? Correct? Looking it up on a post I bookmarked on R2R for wrasse ID and breakdown of them