Show off your wrasse

supmar85 · Sep 9, 2009

My favorite wrasse

gflat65 · Sep 9, 2009

I lost my male M. bipartitus this weekend... I'd had him since 2/11/09 and he was eating, so it kinda of came as a surprise. I may be on the hunt for a trio of Potter's leopards or bipartitus...

icedgxe · Sep 13, 2009

A couple of new pics of my mystery

plainrt · Sep 13, 2009

My christmas wrasse

gflat65 · Sep 20, 2009

Picked up a beautiful male M. ornatus. No pics yet (got him in the tank around 1:30 last night and didn't want to hit him with flash after the drive down from Memphis). He's not come out yet, but I'll be watching for him

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Jason edwards · Sep 20, 2009

My McCosker's

YouTube - McCosker's Flasher wrasse showing off

Rickyrooz · Sep 20, 2009

D3monic said:
My McCosker's

YouTube - McCosker's Flasher wrasse showing off

That's a Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse. In the video I see three filaments that pop up, the McCosker has one.

Carpenter's

McCosker's

NotTheFace · Sep 20, 2009

All these pages of wrasses and no Cryptic Six Lines

I wanted a peaceful fish so I went with this one. It's hard to get a pic of it this is the best I could do.

detguy123 · Sep 21, 2009

cool cryptic i don't see pics of those too often....and yes that vid is of a carpenter's

Jason edwards · Sep 21, 2009

I agree with you guys to a point. Apparently the fish that where sold to me as McCoskers are not....but looking at a bunch of pictures it just doesnt match a carpenters really either. Its pretty close but some of the colors just dont match and his seem alot bolder than those in pics. Hybrid maybe? I know they are notorious for it. hes flashing like crazy as I type

detguy123 · Sep 22, 2009

do you have a good still picture of it i could tell you if it is a hybrid or a carpenters but the video clearly shows to me that it is a carpenters the black cadual fin (tail fin) and red anal fin and and two filaments tell me it is a carpenters....mccoskers and carpenters and yellow fins get mixed up and mislabled quite often

Sikryd · Sep 22, 2009

D3monic said:
I agree with you guys to a point. Apparently the fish that where sold to me as McCoskers are not....but looking at a bunch of pictures it just doesnt match a carpenters really either. Its pretty close but some of the colors just dont match and his seem alot bolder than those in pics. Hybrid maybe? I know they are notorious for it. hes flashing like crazy as I type

Wrasses are slightly different in color/pattern, depending on where they come from.
Fijian, Australian, ect. they all are a little different.

Jason edwards · Sep 22, 2009

either way Im happy with him. Thanks for the heads up guys. I will refere to him as a carpenters for now on. Im still working on the still photo. Hes usually zooming around while hes flashing and every pic turns out blurry.

detguy123 · Sep 22, 2009

Sikryd said:
Wrasses are slightly different in color/pattern, depending on where they come from.
Fijian, Australian, ect. they all are a little different.

that is true but it is very easy to tell mccoskers apart from the others..and there is very little change in mccoskers some in the red on the dorsal and anal fin but not much..and a mccoskers will always have 1 filament and a red anal fin....the yellow fin flasher can have one to 4 filaments but will have a yellow anal fin and its filaments are red and carpenters has 2-4 filaments and has a red anal fin