cirrhilabrus solorensis female
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MCCOOL
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Here's the link to my thread asking for an I.D
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1865008
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1865008
n8ureman
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I asked for an I.D. On this fish a few months back, and the consensus was that it was a female C. Solorensis.
I believe their answer is based on the book Fairy & Rainbow wrasses by Rudie Kuiter. In his book, color plates E and F clearly look like your fish.( and are listed as female solar wrasse) But here is where I get confused, because I bought two of these fish as C. cyanopleura (blue head fairy) and they are now both larger than my blue solar wrasses ( the pic posted by the OP) so if that is a female solar wrasse I am assuming the male of that form will stay red?
( sorry, I didn't mean to highjack the thread, just wondering myself!As per the original question:
I have seen really small (and thus female) blue solar wrasses at my LFS that had the same pattern but lacked the bright yellow patch on the nose. I hope this helped.
LemonLemon
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as long as it's blue, it's not a female solar wrasses.
female solar wrasses are pinkish orangey much like the photo above. but that photo could also be a female form of Cirrhilabrus cf. cyanopleura, which is a wrasse that looks exactly like cyanopleura but it's still an undescribed species.
females of solar wrasses grow bigger than the males.
female solar wrasses are pinkish orangey much like the photo above. but that photo could also be a female form of Cirrhilabrus cf. cyanopleura, which is a wrasse that looks exactly like cyanopleura but it's still an undescribed species.
females of solar wrasses grow bigger than the males.
rssjsb
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Blue Zoo has females: http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?did=1&pid=972&cid=290I have a solorensis wrasse. I think its a male, and I would like to get him some females. But, how do they look? I can't seem to find any pics of females.
Here is my male, his pelvic fins have grown a lot since i got him
So can anyone show me how a female looks?
LemonLemon
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colour varies greatly between individual. the orange and yellow on the head can be at times, very muted or very bright depending on the size and the mood of the fish and also condition it is in.
whatever it is, as long as it's blue and have some slight yellow on the head, it's a male. Male solorensis have a dark gill cover too. perhaps yours was a young male with undeveloped or partially developed colouration.
as far as supermales go, i have never seen one alive and the only picture of a real super male solorensis was the one posted on the marine center. but the website seems to have dissapeared now and so have the fish. that one had super long ventral fins, an orange back and face and a really big bluish/purple tail.
i believe "supermale" is more appropriately used for larger more showy fairies like rhomboids, lineatus etc. smaller species like solorensis, cyanopleura, flavidorsalis etc, i have seldom seen the term supermale, because they just do not usually grow large enough or have much difference in terms of colouration between males and "supermales"
And in general for fairy wrasses, the female is more aggressive.
LemonLemon
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yes i too have experienced this. my female bathyphilus is just asking for a beating from the male. chases the male but the male will flash back and win.
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