New Super Male Rhomboid Wrasse

DarthSimon · Mar 11, 2019

Check out the male coloration on this new guy!!!

Here he is swimming with his female:

4FordFamily · Mar 11, 2019

DarthSimon said:
Check out the male coloration on this new guy!!!

Here he is swimming with his female:

Is that more filters than a Keurig or a photo glitch?

I want to see a representative photo! They’re beautiful fish

Geebs19 · Mar 11, 2019

4FordFamily said:
Is that more filters than a Keurig or a photo glitch?

I want to see a representative photo! They’re beautiful fish

I was thinking the same thing haha.

DarthSimon · Mar 11, 2019

No actually just my iPhone Xs Max and flash lol
Here’s some more

This is his color!!!!!
Took me 2 years to find this specimen.....

4FordFamily · Mar 11, 2019

Turn up the whites or down the blues if you can, it helps with that a lot.

Fish looks like a real stunner!!

DarthSimon · Mar 11, 2019

My Radion’s are on full blast there... 100% on all blues and only 20% on whites...

DarthSimon · Mar 11, 2019

Better then him looking like a stunner, he’s getting along well in the tank with 2 other super male fairy wrasses. Flame and Lineatus... My experience with Rhomboids is they don’t acclimate easily.... But once established, very hardy...

408Dartfish · Mar 11, 2019

Jealous beautiful wrasses. On my wishlist for sure

DarthSimon · Mar 11, 2019

So one of the big local suppliers here in NJ just got in 7 pairs of Rhomboids. 6-7 pairs died within 3-4 days. Very sad....

MY closer LFS got one pair in. I took the male and he died in my QT in 36 hours.

This new pair was bought from a retailer that does a full QT regiment, but charges more for fish. About 25% more..... We’ll worth it though. The fish was in QT protocol for 6 weeks and eating like a champ. They were eating in my display within 24 hours.

DarthSimon · Mar 11, 2019

It’s funny, my flame was from a pair. He was a female or sub male. His super male counter part died, so he’s probably tripled in size and got super fat since.