Can someone tell me what kind of fish this is ?

[ibrat82]

It looks like a wrasse but not sure what kind...

 

[Shauny200]

Leopard wrasse, great little fish��

 

[eastlake]

Yup, female blue star leopard wrasse. Great fish for an established tank as they feed a lot on copepods. Once they settle in they'll eat most offerings but sometimes that takes a while so a good healthy stock of pods and live foods, if available, go a long way.

 

[pyithar]

+1 female blue star leopard wrasse (macropharyngodon bipartitus).

 

[snorvich]

+1 female blue star leopard wrasse (macropharyngodon bipartitus).

This

 

[billdogg]

I have a pair. They were responsible for absolutely decimating my flatworm population, including carefully plucking each and every one off of my LPS, especially in rather large Elegance that seemed to be a FW magnet.

Two of my very favorite fish, and certainly the hardest workers in the system.

 

[Bent]

I've often wondered how one of these would do in my system with a mandarin. Probably not good would be my first guess.

 

[ibrat82]

I've read that these fishe's are hard to qt? Is that correct?

 

[billdogg]

They sleep buried in the sand, so at a minimum, you'll have to provide a plastic bowl with 3+ inches of fine sand. I got mine about a month apart, and they both did fine in QT (more an observation tank - after 2 weeks or so and a round of Prazipro I put them in the DT, where LW #1 started swimming around hunting right off the bat. LW #2 buried itself in the sand for about a month - I had given it up for lost - and then one day appeared out and about, hunting with her? buddy. They are always together now swimming amongst the rocks, on the hunt for something tasty.

 

[pyithar]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2369454

^ leopard wrasse primer^.

 

[j_mazzy]

what a stunner