Earlei Wrasse a Reality

Those are awesome looking wrasses!! Congrats on the purchase. Michael_cb_125 I am with you in thinking a group order sounds tempting. Thanks Tony
 
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Brian is in the Marshalls so the best flight would be MAJ-HNL-Anywhere in the U.S. If you sent the fish to JPN first then the shipping out of Japan is 3-4 times more expensive than out of Hawaii. But the idea of fish caught on a CCR out of marshall islands is nice because now you can get flavocoranatus, 1" grifisi, blue colored bispinosa, earlei wrasses, etc. Now it makes it all exciting!!!
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I thought the flavocoranatus were endemic to Guam?
 
Jim, congrats on your beautiful trio! Keep us updated! I hosted Koji's first visit ever to our nation's capital here in DC yesterday. :) While we will be seeing fish from Brian VERY soon, your trio was collected by a Japanese collector and not Brian. I always see this species mentioned and feel that the namesake of these fish deserves some credit from us... John Earle has contributed greatly to both twilight zone exploration on his rebreather and ichthyology, despite being a retired Hawaiian Airlines pilot. John is an amazingly intelligent and eloquent guy who has a way with words like no other, and like so many people involved in our passion is just an all around nice guy. He is a fish nerd's fish nerd and knows his stuff! He is at the right in this photo taken in his beautiful Honolulu apartment overlooking Waikiki. Next to him is the great Jack Randall, the world renowned ichthyologist that has (simply put) described more valid reef fish species than any other ichthyologist in history (over 700!) including over half of the known Cirrhilabrus species! Gerry Allen named a Cirrhilabrus in his honor too... C. randalli... as he did for the man in the left of the photo Rich Pyle... the well known Cirrhilabrus pylei! :)

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On another note the resplendens pair was from a hobbyist's collection but were originally wild caught many years ago... and as for the Roaops there is an ichthyologist with fin clippings of a few of mine from the Marshalls waiting to be looked at... as Rich Pyle told me on these fish... there is a PhD thesis in there! :)

Congrats again on these beautiful fish Jim. Oh... Cirrhilabrus fans can expect to see yet another species we haven't seen in years VERY soon... :)

Copps
 
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copps said:
Jim, congrats on your beautiful trio! Keep us updated! I hosted Koji's first visit ever to our nation's capital here in DC yesterday. :) While we will be seeing fish from Brian VERY soon, your trio was collected by a Japanese collector and not Brian. I always see this species mentioned and feel that the namesake of these fish deserves some credit from us... John Earle has contributed greatly to both twilight zone exploration on his rebreather and ichthyology, despite being a retired Hawaiian Airlines pilot. John is an amazingly intelligent and eloquent guy who has a way with words like no other, and like so many people involved in our passion is just an all around nice guy. He is a fish nerd's fish nerd and knows his stuff! He is at the right in this photo taken in his beautiful Honolulu apartment overlooking Waikiki. Next to him is the great Jack Randall, the world renowned ichthyologist that has (simply put) described more valid reef fish species than any other ichthyologist in history (over 700!) including over half of the known Cirrhilabrus species! Gerry Allen named a Cirrhilabrus in his honor too... C. randalli... as he did for the man in the left of the photo Rich Pyle... the well known Cirrhilabrus pylei! :)

allfour.jpg


On another note the resplendens pair was from a hobbyist's collection but were originally wild caught many years ago... and as for the Roaops there is an ichthyologist with fin clippings of a few of mine from the Marshalls waiting to be looked at... as Rich Pyle told me on these fish... there is a PhD thesis in there! :)

Congrats again on these beautiful fish Jim. Oh... Cirrhilabrus fans can expect to see yet another species we haven't seen in years VERY soon... :)

Copps
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WHAT a wrasse we haven't seen in years ? great I now have to check DD 27 times a day :rollface:. Thanks for the contribution to this thread, I really appreciate learning more about where they came from. One of my greatest fish moments was having Bruce Carlson at my house and showing him my Marjorie Wrasse pair.
 
They look healthy and happy! Are they out and about a lot or are they still a bit shy? And what are they eatting?
Glad you are sharing these beautiful and rare wrasse.
 
OceanLover2 said:
They look healthy and happy! Are they out and about a lot or are they still a bit shy? And what are they eatting?
Glad you are sharing these beautiful and rare wrasse.
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They are out quite a bit. Been feeding them mysis, brine, pellet and recently some live blackworms.
 
They look right at home Jim. Very happy to see. as I'm sure you are and all the anxiety is gone. I'm way jealouse. LOL
 
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