Indigo Hamlet?

[AquaKnight]

Any experience or knowledge of these fish? All I could dig up from the archives was that they may feed exclusity on blue chromis in the wild and thus adapting to aquarium offerings may be tough for long term survival. Any thoughts opinions?

 

[Absint Reefer]

I had one in a reef tank forever they are very shy at first. Staying in the rocks for a week or so but once acclimated they are a indestructible fish with great color and stays small.

 

[Absint Reefer]

found a pic

 

[AquaKnight]

I believe that's a blue hamlet in the pic (Hypoplectrus gemma) but as I found, there's an argument out there that all hamlets are the same species, just their slight coloration differences.

IMO, there are two, the shorter, stubbier snout ones, like the Blue and Golden hamlets, and the ones with the longer, more pointed snout, like the Indigo and Black hamlets.

I suspect behavoir is identical between all of them though, should be an interesting fish. One LFS here had a huge Butter, maybe 4.5" and he was pretty cool, eat anything.