Fairy wrasse Photo Library

[dphins]

I just got this scott's wrasse yesterday and I am in love with it's color. Can you have 2 scott's if they are from different locations?

 

[CrazyLionfish]

If the other one is female i think.

 

[GunMoto]

dphinsx2 - Not sure about mixing two male Scott's, each from different origins, but the colors your Scott's has in your pic are gorgeous!!

 

[dphins]

Thanks GunMoto. The local lfs had 6 scott's wrasse. It took me 2 hours to decide which one I wanted. Each one had different colors and they all were sweet. A nice problem to have I guess?!!

 

[CeeGee]

I have good news. Today my flame started to come out of the PVC tube a little. He is still really really shy but he is coming around a little.

He ate!!!! I fed some mysis/prime reef mixed with selcon and a few hours later he even ate a little bit of formula one flakes!

He didn't like the flakes as much but he still ate some. Looking very promising.

 

[Rothie]

I tried 2 Scotts from different locations.The small one outgrew the larger one and has become the tank bully-to all the other fairies and flashers.

 

[dphins]

So is there a lot of aggression within your tank?

 

[Rothie]

The Scotts chases all the others.Three have jumped,2 are MIA,and my Lineatus hides most of the time.

 

[cknox2]

What fish is this??? (the one with pink head and bluish underside

 

[c. dawg]

Looks like a finespotted fairy

 

[dphins]

That sucks Rothie. Maybe you should trade your scotts for a different one?

 

[Rothie]

I'd be happy just to catch him and move him to another tank.

 

[GunMoto]

cknox2 - I think it's a Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1153

 

[c. dawg]

Liveaquaria used to have a pic of a finespotted that looked like this:

 

[GunMoto]

c. dawg - Yep, it looks like a fine spotted fairy wrasse too.

 

[poknsnok]

its a blue sided... all fairys are beautiful

 

[poknsnok]

I dont know whats nicer looking... the scotts you have or your Avatar. those scotts are MAJOR jumpers. so beautiful but suicidal. make sure every inch of that tank is covered

That sucks Rothie. Maybe you should trade your scotts for a different one?

 

[bronco7777]

cknox2,

Recently there have been several discoveries of what appears to be crossbreeds between Solorensis and aurantidorsalis fairies.

I'd be more inclined to say that the picture you have is that of a mature female solar fairy. Then again it's tough to say. Young orangeback fairy wrasses (aurantidorsalis) display a very similar coloration.

Here's the difference:

Mature Solar female: the Magenta-red head coloring usually stops mid way through the body then fading into the bright yellow-orange.

Orangeback fairy: The magenta-red-purple coloring is limited to the face....no further than the gills....kinda like a mask. Then you get a a magenta purple line that is horizontal to the entire length of the body. This magenta-purple line divides the fish horizontally from the top half which is bright yellow-orange (hence the name orangeback or aurantidorsalis) and the bottom half which is a bright neon blue.

Again, my take is you have a female solar there. Lots of times labled as ruby head fairy wrasse by many LFS's that don't realize what they have.

 

[JohnK]

A LFS has about 4 BIG beautiful aurantidorsalis (orangeback) males, also has 3 male-female pairs of the undescribed (rosy-fin) fairies (The trend I've been noticing for more and more fairies showing up at LFS seems to be continuing)

I have a big Pink-Margin male (rubrimarignatus) I've had for about 6 months in a 75 gallon.

Would an orangeback fight with the Pink-Margin? They really don't look like each other at all. They want $200 for a rosy-fin pair so I'm leaning against those, also looks a bit more like the Pink-Margin.

I was encouraged by Bronco listing the orangeback as one that doesn't lose color without a female.

 

[just dave]

The Rosy Fin or Coral Sea Fairy has been described.
It is C. bathyphilus .