Please help ID this fish

[Ezaudio2]

Please help me ID this fish thank you in advance

 

[fishguy242]

i could not tell you,but very cool,looks like a jumper,following ,very interesting,eel like,pipe like???

 

[Ezaudio2]

More pics

 

[fishguy242]

not a pipe,not an eel,looks like a wrasse? @evolved ,any idea?? thanks

 

[evolved]

Doesn't strike me as a Labrid...

 

[Wolf89]

Yellowtail cleaner wrasse, Diproctacanthus xanthurus ...?

 

[evolved]

Yellowtail cleaner wrasse, Diproctacanthus xanthurus ...?

Somewhat similar, but I don't believe so. The skeletal structure of the head is far different and quite unique on the fish in question.

 

[AcroNem]

it is a yellow striped clingfish, Diademichthys lineatus.

 

[evolved]

it is a yellow striped clingfish, Diademichthys lineatus.

Ah, there we go. That one I can get behind.

 

[Ezaudio2]

yes! Thank you so much. After an hour of trying to figure it out on my own you guys did it in 4 minutes. Thank you!

 

[evolved]

Here's an important detail:

Lives in close association with long-spined sea urchins or branching corals of sheltered reefs (Ref. 9710). Juvenile fish eat pedicellariae and sphaeridia of the host Diadema and commensal copepods; adult fish eat burrowing bivalves in corals as well as tube feet of their host and eggs of a commercial shrimp

 

[fishguy242]

does he sleep or perch upside down,just asking?

 

[AcroNem]

Here's an important detail:

Yes, this is good info.

 

[Ezaudio2]

does he sleep or perch upside down,just asking?

Yes

 

[F i s h y]

Very interesting fish with very specific requirements. Happy reefing!

 

[mort]

The "eggs of commercial shrimp" is an important point for me. I had a couple of these and whilst I've seen them listed as easy I could never get them feeding on anything I added (this was at a time i was breed in seahorses and a few othe species so had lots of livefoods available). The major problem with them was that they used to hunt the eggs on my cleaner shrimps and quite violently lunge at them. It got to the point where the shrimp were visibly guarding their underside and I separated them.
I know a few have kept them but not sure about any long term success, so I'd do a look of reading first before attempting one. I think they are very cool but I was put off trying them again.