ID a wrasse please

[Chipie]

Hi,
I bought a wrasse and was told it was a Carpenter's Flasher wrasse juvenile. It's tiny(one inche, no more) . I tried to take a good picture of it but it stays hidden most of the time.

Here's the picture i have of it.

Do you think it's a Carpenter's wrasse or anything else? I've tried to find pictures of juvenile wrasses but didn't find much.
Thanks

 

[Terryz_]

It is definitely a juvenile fairy, just not sure of the exact species... Cos a lot of fairy juvenile looks like that... Maybe a location of where is this from, might have a chance of a positive id..

 

[snorvich]

My speculation is preadult C. walindi fairy.

 

[Chipie]

Hope it's not Walindi Anybody have a picture of a juvenile Carpenter's wrasse? Carpenter's wrasse is not a fairy wrasse right?

 

[Terryz_]

Carpenter wrasse is a flasher wrasse, this is confirm not a juvenile carpenter... Thou i haven seem a juvenile carpenter before but i am certain this is a juvenile fairy...

 

[Reefer07]

Sounds like the LFS I was at the other day that was trying to sell a carpenter's wrasse as a mccosker's for $80.....I felt like saying something but their already a bunch of winner's there and I didn't want to add to their ego.

 

[snorvich]

It is definitely not a flasher wrasse. Why would it be bad if it were a Walindi?

 

[Chipie]

Well it's just not what i wanted and from the pictures i saw of them. They are not as nice looking as a Carpenter's in my opinion. Just not what i ordered.

 

[Reefer07]

Ya I would be upset too......have you tried to contact whoever you ordered from?

 

[Chipie]

Yes but still no answer. grrrr...Of course Carpenter's or not i will still love and take care of this fish like all others but i'm a bit ****ed at the guy who sent this to me. Boy finding pictures of juvenile wrasses is really hard to find.

 

[deanos]

http://www.fishbase.org/Photos/PicturesSummary.cfm?StartRow=4&ID=4843&what=species

 

[Chipie]

Thanks for the link. This is a picture of a juvenile Carpenter's right? I sure doesn't look like my fish.

thanks again

 

[goboltz]

That fish is a female condei fairy wrasse. I have a trio of condei's in my tank.

 

[Chipie]

Hi,
It says paracheillinus Carpenteri on top of the picture. Isn't that a Carpenter wrasse?

 

[Chipie]

Oh you mean the one i have?

 

[snorvich]

That is not a female C. condei. It is also NOT a flasher wrasse. The link supplied is of a juvenile flasher wrasse, maybe a carpenters, but not for certain.

 

[Chipie]

Yes snorvich, i think you are right about the Walindi wrasse.
Here's a link to it and it looks a whole lot like my fish.

http://www.poppe-images.com/images/image_info.php?picid=921598

 

[snorvich]

thanks. I am pretty sure.

 

[Chipie]

Ok now i have a better picture of my wrasses. It has grown quite a bit. And it also has darkened a bit over the head and back.

Still think it's a Walindi ?

 

[revaltion131]

Well, it's definitly a cirrhilabus and not a paracheilinus, sorry. Looking at WWM, it looks like it might also be a C. tonozukai. =/ I guess one way to look at it is that you might have gotten more than you paid for since fairies are generally far more expensive than flashers.