Fairy wrasse Photo Library

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A bad crack habit? Now THAT is the most accurate description of my obsession I have seen yet (even from my wife).

Brian said he will have the website updated in the next day or so with newly acquired animals.

I have a fish trap that I can use as a specimen cup but I cannot feed them in there because it is on the bottom. Where do you find a specimen cup? Thanks Bronco for all the information!! And thanks to everyone for making this thread the ultimate fairy wrasse information thread.
 
snorvich,

Go to Petsmart or Petco and get a Lee's 3-way breeder cup. It's typically used for freshwater breeding. This cup has air pocket handles on each side that help it stay afloat at water level. The cup also has slits along the side to allow your system's water to easily flow thru. This will make it easy to feed the fish every day.
 
my male lanceolatus. he's very skiddish. should i worry if he's jumping and hitting the lid? or is this normal and he will calm down? any ways
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the pix arent great but again he is very active in his little container.
tank mates include:
black longnose tang
regal angel
mystery wrasse
solar wrasse
swalesi basslet
yellow clown goby
white cap clown w/ blue carpet anemone (i know the carpet is a bad idea but the clown doesnt let anybody near it)

possibly a female c. lanceolatus but again she jumped through the eggcrate on her acclimation "cup" on the first night and is somewhere in the tank (i hope). i have the same eggcrate but i placed a towel on top to help get him used to the light and to help weigh it down.

im using a lee's large observation cup that i drilled as my container.
 
achilliesheel,

That fish you just pictured is actually a new breed of cirrhilabrus that was just recently discovered. That is not a lanceolatus or a roseafacia.

I'm pretty sure of this but I'm hoping Hiroyuki will jump on here soon to back me up on this. Quite honestly this fish is rarer than a lanceolatus and/or Roseafacia.
Currently it is undescribed but Tanaka is working with others to get it officially registered. In the meantime it is tentatively being named "pin tail fairy" by Hiroyuki. It's becoming somewhat accessible within the Japan distribution chain. But I've not seen it for sale in the US yet.

Where did you buy this guy?

Are there more available?

Please let me know as I have been trying for months to locate one.
 
Sometimes fairy wrasses can be incredibly nervous and wild in their behavior. I have a finespotted that does the same thing. I recommend that you dim or shut the lights off for a good bit of time. Let him relax a bit by sleeping.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7155233#post7155233 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bronco7777
Speaking of Mr. Hiroyuki Tanaka...

For the past year Mr. Tanaka has been trying to register and sign on to reef central to participate in this thread. For whatever reason, he cannot log on. Something in the RC system just won't allow him to do so.

However, Mr. Tanaka is the foremost expert in fairy wrasses in the world. Nobody has the knowledge he has. Leading marine biologists and divers come to him to describe new species of cirrhilabrus and paracheilinus. He has written scientific papers on these fish and regularly works with people like Scott Michael, Rudie Kuiter, and Richard Pyle just to mention a few. Currently Mr. Tanaka is working on a all fairy wrasse book that is 3 times the size of the Fairy & Rainbow wrasse book you've seen available in stores. However this is just dedicated to fairy & flasher wrasses. I'm working with Mr. Tanaka to help supply pictures and information for this effort.

I mention this because Mr. Tanaka anxiously wants to participate in this thread. I think we would all benefit from having his input. Therefore I am working to help him get signed on to RC. I think the problem may be found in that the RC system cannot convert Japanese language characters. So I'm going to try and sign him up on a secondary account.
If this works, soon we'll be able to welcome him to our thread and really kick these conversations up a notch.

Stay tuned....
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wow!!! let's get mr tanaka a working account! i would love to hear what this man has to say!

if all that's preventing him from posting is a key conversion conflict, then someone should be able to email him his password so he can simply copy and paste it into the field.
 
Great idea Bronco, I'll use this method when I add a scotts wrasse to my tank to help the other wrasses get use to him.
 
achillesheel's wrasse is definitely not Lanceolatus.

Outside shot at Roseafacia, but most likely the undescribed Pin Tail that we would not be able to post links to.

How come I never find anything like that?
 
the reason i thought it was lanceolatus was that is how it is described in kuiter's book, well C. cf lanceolatus anyway. any other info on it would be great.
 
Hiroyuki,

On the previous page of this thread (page 14). The pictures towards the end of the page seem to me to show a pin - tail fairy wrasse.

Is this not the case?
 
Thanks all frieds, and my name is Hiroyuki Tanaka, a medical doctor in Miyazaki City, southern Japan.

I am very glad to join this web and also I greatly appreciate Bronco for his enthusiasm on Cirrhilabrus and his inviting me to this wonderful, active site.

I have been keeping marine fishes (almost fish sp. and a few experience with inverts) for 32 years, and now I am almost concentrating on Fairies & flashers. I have kept 30 spp. out of 43 members of Cirrhilabrus (one just added), and 10 spp. from 14 of Paracheilinus until now, and I still am waiting for new comers from remote areas. Also several undescribed species of Cirrhilabrus were in my home, and now two of them are to be sent to Dr. Gerald R. Allen for his examination next week.

I have photographed so many fairy & flasher wrasses in home, and now some 3000 shots in stock. I posted some of them to several webs and books as well, including Kuiter & Debelius' newest World Atlas of Marine Fishes (now available at Sea Challengers, USA), etc. Photographing their flashin coloration is the most exciting to me, but many are out-of-focus, because of their quick motion while they are displaying. I use a small tnk for photographing surrounded with black boards for the purpose of making them excite in the evening to night (all the lights are turned off in the room but the tank light).

There are so many posts and I cannot reply to all, for I ma not a excellent keeper, and Bronco is one of the best responders. His help with photos and knowk\ledge and experience is so great, and I am sure to post photos and knowledge if I have soon.

Anyway I am so glad and happy to talk over these nice fishes with you. Thanks again.
 
Hi, Bronco,

>On the previous page of this thread (page 14). The pictures >towards the end of the page seem to me to show a pin - tail >fairy wrasse. Is this not the case?


Yes, it is the Pin-tail Fairy Wrasse, unnamed species from southern Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. Two specimens were collected in Iriomote Jima, the Rykyus some time ago and a Japanese ichthyologist prepared a paper to describe it, but ime passed. Three ichthyologists from Oahu discovered and collected several in May, 2005 and they would name it this year.

Aquarium specimens will be shipped from Cebu on rare occasion, some four individuals year, and command a very high price, some $100-150 in Tokyo or Osaka. I have kept one male specimen for some three months and it did so well and was very peaceful.
 
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