ID this very weird fish please !

Paradi

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hi my friends, i know ive been asking ALOT these days, but iam confused, I saw this fish at LFS and they still dont know its name lol, its in a bad condition, and tries to hide under sand or in crushed corals, she looks nice, and would be great with my 6 lined wrasse, fredimani and nemo, so if anyone knows its name plz help, it looks like leopard wrasse somehow , but its not, i searched everywhere on google but nothing , here's the only pic i could get for it, she's sneaky

she's from the RED SEA ...

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lol , poor lil thing needs to be saved, but i wont get it unless i know what it is , so no identifier for today :(
 
Looks like a wrasse. And a sand sleeping one, from the behavoir.

But this can be tricky, many wrasse look nothing like their adult versions as juveniles...

Someone may recognize it.
 
guys I found it yay !!! its called ''Yellowbreasted wrasse'' or ''Anampses twistii'' , pheww now i can see what it likes and dislikes, and if she's gonna live ok with my 2 6 lined wrasses or not, thank you allllllll :)
 
a decent pic, looks like a grown up here, and very good condition, mine is a juvi and looks terrible, as well as my crappy cybershot cam lol

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now the question is, can i keep more than one species of wrasse in my 90g ?? heard they r territorial.... i have a fredmani too and wanted to add a sunrise dottyback and a Pseudochromis springeri , so what do you guys think ?
 
post this question w/ the specific species of wrasses involved on the Reef Fishes forum. there are a bunch of wrasse experts over there. short answer from my limited multi-wrasse experience in my 90G tank is yes, you can mix wrasses. but there is a best-practices order of adding them to the tank, which depends on the aggressiveness of each wrasse species. again, the posters on Reef Fishes can hook you up w/ that list. I think you may run into problems w/ your 6-lines beating the snot out of the Anampses twistii, especially if the 6-lines are bigger than the newbie. good luck!
 
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