Wrasse ID Thread 2.0

[SaltyT]

There is very much still a need for a wrasse identification thread so here it is!

If you have a wrasse you want identified post a photo or two of it under white light, preferably with its fins open, and we’ll do our best to help you identify it.

@Crabby48 @i cant think @Slocke … here we go! :)

Happy Reefing!

 

[i cant think]

There is very much still a need for a wrasse identification thread so here it is!

If you have a wrasse you want identified post a photo or two of it under white light, preferably with its fins open, and we’ll do our best to help you identify it.

@Crabby48 @i cant think @Slocke @Petcrazyson … here we go!

Happy Reefing!

I’m excited!!
Give us some hard ones

 

[Petcrazyson]

I’m excited!!
Give us some hard ones

 

[Cichlid Dad]

 

[Petcrazyson]

That is the ugliest wrasse I think I’ve ever seen

 

[Cichlid Dad]

I will try and get a pic when I get home

 

[Petcrazyson]

I will try and get a pic when I get home

Of the eel?

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Of the eel?

Ya he identify's as a wrasse!

 

[A Young Reefer]

This is gonna be a good one

 

[Cichlid Dad]

It is hard to get a good picture of this guy

 

[i cant think]

It is hard to get a good picture of this guy

Well, I’m going to go and say Thalassoma lunare or maybe Thalassoma grammaticum. The thing stopping me from saying Halichoeres rubricephalus is the body shape looks wrong to me. Also the speed it seems to swim in the photo seems too fast for even a fast swimming rubricehalus.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

It is hard to get a good picture of this guy

What is funny is he follows this guy hoping he misses a goody when he's shifts sand.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Well, I’m going to go and say Thalassoma lunare or maybe Thalassoma grammaticum. The thing stopping me from saying Halichoeres rubricephalus is the body shape looks wrong to me. Also the speed it seems to swim in the photo seems too fast for even a fast swimming rubricehalus.

He is a lunar, what is the scientific name for 100

 

[i cant think]

He is a lunar, what is the scientific name for 100

Thalassoma lunare

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Thalassoma lunare

Thank you now I know! LOL

 

[Petcrazyson]

Thalassoma lunare

No no no thalassoma painasses

 

[Slocke]

Gymnothorax fimbriatus
That one’s easy. Very common

 

[OrionN]

Which fairly? Certainly not a Fairy God Mother.

 

[Slocke]

Wrasse ID?

Does anyone know what this wrasse is? I’m planning to get it and I dont know what name it is or if it’s reef safe?

www.reef2reef.com

I See this one a lot but I can’t place it. Is it a juvenile Thalassoma?

 

[Slocke]

Which fairly? Certainly not a Fairy God Mother.

Middle is an exquisitus not at all sure about the other one. Bathyphilus?