Fairy wrasse Photo Library

[dshevnock]

gorgeous fish tanaka

 

[wantsalotta]

Someone ID my latest purchase please? Female solarensis?

 

[coreno16]

Just took a few new pics of my female solornesis. Sorry for the bad pics.

- Cory

 

[zemuron114]

large angels,
awesome! glad to hear it. He should display like crazy because of the other male...

 

[LargeAngels]

zemuron: Surprisingly neither one is really displaying. They get along great.

 

[snorvich]

wantsalotta, your fish is most likely a female solorensis from Indonesia.

 

[zemuron114]

awww! i want them to display ( i dont know why, i wont be able to see them.. lol) but a displaying lineatus looks so cool!

 

[wantsalotta]

My supplier got her in as misc. fairy wrasse, indo-pacific For 20 bucks, I couldn't pass it up. I was thinking it was a female solarensis, but was not sure.

 

[snorvich]

Actually, the females are less common in our LFS so you got a hard to get item at an incredible price.

 

[wantsalotta]

newbie luck, I guess, because I have a male already. It should be neat when i get her out of my pseudo-quarantine and into the display. (somehow my quarantine ended up with vho, live rock and coral in/on it

 

[fishermania]

There is a little confustion on sifferent sites in the difference between Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis and Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis I see there pictures interchanged quit often. I the pic I think the first one is rubripinnis and the second is rubriventralis.

Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis

Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis

 

[fishermania]

Help me choice a group of wrasses. I'm trying to decide bassed on compatiblility and color loss.

In the last year I have had several of my older fish die. 2 - 5 year old yellow tail damsels. 3 green chromis due to aggression, 1 of my pygmy angels due to aggression. I can get them in different combos from different places.


Place 1

1 male of each of these.

RED FIN FAIRY WRASSE, Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis
DISAPPEARING WRASSE, Pseudocheilinus evanidus
Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura
Rose Belly Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus punctatus
Whipfin Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus filamentosus

Place 2

1 Male 2-3 females
Red Fin Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis
1 Male
Yellow Fin Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis
1 Male
Clown Fairy Wrasses, Cirrhilabrus solorensis

Place 3

Each is 1 Male

Blue Flasher Fairy Wrasse, Paracheilinus cyaneus
Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus lubbocki
Clown Fairy Wrasses, Cirrhilabrus solarensis
Red Fin Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis

 

[fishermania]

Does any one know where you can get female Cirrhilabrus lubbocki

 

[zemuron114]

any LFS in your area should be able to order one. I wouldn't get the dissapearing wrasse. I was holding one for a while and he was a complete pain in the butt. He attached everything, ate every shrimp and picked on other fish. He is sure to be a problem with fairies...

 

[fishermania]

Unforantly I live in an area with very few LFS. The one good one can't get specific fairy wrasses easily. The only other option within 1 hour drive are petco and a petsmart that is going in now.

I was thinking of more of an online vendor.

 

[H.Tanaka]

fishermania,

These photos illustrate as follows,

1 C. solorensis, large female
2 & 3 C. rubripinnis, males
4, 5 & 6 C. rubriventralis, all males

 

[zemuron114]

H. tanaka, your knowledge always amazes me!
I actually had a question. Have you ever heard of C. Tibicense? These are on my aussie list but i cannot find it anywhere at all. common name says tibicens fairy wrasse. Im going to get some in to see what they are.. lol but didn't know if you had any idea of what it is, or new anything about it. I thought maybe it was temmnickii?

thanks for the help

 

[H.Tanaka]

There is no name for Cirrhilabrus 'tibicensi' in the list of the genus. Probably it is C. punctatus but I am not sure.

C. temminckii does not occur but the close C. punctatus exists in eastern Australia.

 

[zemuron114]

he had both C. punctatus, and C. tibicense... Hmmmm. i will see when they come in

 

[H.Tanaka]

Perhaps when a single photo is available there would be an answer. I too hope to see what species it is.