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I hope you don't mind if I join in this discussion. I've read quite a bit of the posts but not all.

I've been wanting a C. solorensis for a while. I was just at the LFS, and they had a large female (my best guess) about 5-6 inches, very similar but not as colorful as the 11cm picture above. They said a customer returned it because it was eating hermit crabs.

Is this a typical behavior by these guys or by the Fairy Wrasses in general, especially when larger? If I have hermits, should I go with Flashers instead?

Thanks and by the way this has been a great thread that I've followed for a while.
 
The only way i can really see it eating hermits is if it's underfed? Maybe it is a very very very rare case where it would eat them? I say this because I have a peppermint shrimp and my shrimp and fairy hang out around eachother all the time. I've never had nor heard of a problem with inverts and fairys.

- Cory
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8146483#post8146483 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by yeldarbj
I've been wanting a C. solorensis for a while. I was just at the LFS, and they had a large female (my best guess) about 5-6 inches, very similar but not as colorful as the 11cm picture above. They said a customer returned it because it was eating hermit crabs.
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That doesn't sound right to me.

Is this a typical behavior by these guys or by the Fairy Wrasses in general, especially when larger? If I have hermits, should I go with Flashers instead?
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All members of the Cirrhilabrus genus are diurnal zooplanktivores. However, in my experience, both my C. scottorum and my C. lineatus would nibble a little of the Seaweed Selects that I fed on a clip for my Siganus vulpinus (foxface rabbitfish). The Lineatus didn't seem as interested as the Scott's in the algae clip. And these fish were not underfed, they were fed at least three times a day with a variety of appropriate foods: Cyclop-eeze, mysid shrimp, brine shrimp, and other frozen foods especially for zooplanktivorous fish. They also ate flake food. In fact, they ate almost anything but never hermit crabs or ornamental shrimp.

I kept two Lysmata amboinensis (skunk cleaner shrimp) and about a dozen Paguristes cadenati (scarlet reef hermits) and the fairy wrasses never touched them.
 
I was wondering if anyone else has more pictures of C. Lancelatus I think I will be getting one this weekend and I was also wondering how much in US $ should it go for?
Thanks
 
i have never had any fairy or flasher ever nip or eat my hermits or any invert for that matter at all and i have had a male and female solor wrasse...i have nevre heard of this happening
 
Large individuals of fairy or flasher wrasses may attack living small shrimps. I have not seen such a behavior, however.

Cirrhilabrus lanceolatus is endemic to Japan on Pacific side, and NO specimen was caught for sale. Rudie Kuiter's book shows C. roseafascia as C. cf. lanceolatus. Roseafascia ranges New Caledonia (type locality), Fiji, Samoa, Palau and Cebu (Philippines). No record of any of these from Taiwan is known. If your LFS deales with fishes from Cebu it is surely roseafascia.
 
What !?

I have never heard, and I hope that it will not be shipped VIA Japan. Anyway show us your pics when available. Then I will show you the difference of colors in the two.
 
Actually the fish is already here and has been at the store for a month and is healthy and eating. I will get some photos and post them.
 
id plz

id plz

I was wondering if anyone had an id for this fairy..it was labeled red fairy in stor thought maybe red fin fairy???
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It looks it might be a female of either C. flavidorsalis or C. rubripinnis.

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C. flavidorsalis

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C. rubripinnis

Dr. Tanaka can probably tell you. All of these photographs are his.

:D
 
thats what i have seen from diffrent books and pics thanx for the input guys which ever it might be it has been a really nice fish to the tank..earlier today i saw it trying to display at the back of the tank dancing around with my whipfin that does the same...really fun to watch both...my exquiste has started to come out more and i got some good pics of him today...seems to be doing good now i will post pics of the little guy in the next day or so
 
wraseguy2,

Your fish seems a female of C. lubbocki, or flavidorsalis (or adornatus). They are almost identical in appearance.
 
Thanks for the info H. Tanaka...that is what i had got from some books...i would like to get a male for her but didn't know what it was...will i be able to id which one it is as she gets older or not??? i would like to get a male for her
 
need ID

need ID

I got this guy yesterday at a LFS. The colors are very striking and nice, but I cannot ID it for sure. I do have a couple of possibles, but wanted to run it by your guys first. Tell me what you think it is.

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It is a variant of C. punctatus, male form from Vanuatu and New Caledonia (and also possibly Loyalty Islands). It is often called Port Vila Fairy Wrasse, and erroneously sold as C. temminckii but the latter does not range South West Pacific. Now I am keeping both a 14cm long male and a 10cm female from Vanuatu.
 
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