Halichoeres timorensis
Didn’t cf cyanopleura end up as Chalasai?
Welcome to my life!!
Tried my best to get some better pics - this guy is FAST and always on the move! (Please excuse the insane amount of gha in the background, I'm in the midst of an epic battle with it, lol). To the naked eye he is mostly bright red (the scales towards his head seem to get dark purple outlines if he's stressed - like when one of my dogs put his nose up to the tank and scared him)... but overall he's red a little more than half his body, fading to a peachy color. Fins are purple, with a very thin bluish line along the edge of the tail and anal fin. The dorsal fin is mostly red fading to purple, and I'm just not seeing that intense orange hue from the pics of c. finifenmaa I've looked at. Possibly a slight orangish hue... Maybe it's just not fully mature yet and not fully colored up? He must be getting more comfortable because he was almost all red and purple when I got him, but now I do see some of that peach color on his body. Would really like to know for sure which one he is but it's not the end of the world if it can't be determined - I'm just glad I picked him up when I found him, because he's become one of my favorite fish and adds that bright flash of red that I miss from my flamehawk. He is so comical - sneaks through caves in the rockwork and stares me down with his googly eyes, lol!
BTW - if I were to add another fairy wrasse in the future, or a flasher, which would be compatible?
Pass on it. It will be highly aggressive towards your other wrasses once established. It will also devour your CUC. Your hardwicke will eventually do the same.
I'm begging to think I should have had mike ship me one of these and skip the choati.Well, here she is, every day I’m getting a slightly better photo
She loves the back wall, her colours are incredibly unique as she can camouflage incredibly well into the back wall and rocks.
Not the best. They suffer greatly from shipping and don’t tend to recover quickly enough when they are sold and end up perishing because of that.
Depends on the leopard.
Yeah, I've been warned about the hardwicke. So far I feed pretty heavy, and he's left everyone alone, but I'm prepared for him to get peckish on my smaller crabs and snails.
I would normally agree, but he did say pre QT'ed. so I would assume it's already eating and failry healthy, so the shipping stress isn't quite so bad on them.
You‘d assume, but so many times we both have suffered from the supposed ‘eating and healty’
A leopard wrasse that has been conditioned to captivity through the QT process will be a healthier specimen and will be able to handle shipping better.
I received a butterfly last week and it showed up on it within the first day. Looks terrible, but is active and eating.
This reminds me, will the guy QT your Choati? And if he does will it be solo?
