Let Them Flash!

this is weird my good lfs freind has a purple one, i have a red one with longer filaments. i asked if they could be mixed and he said dont ever do that he tried to do that with his one, he saw a a tornado of fish and then one died. all over in 30 seconds. anyone know what happend?
 
Heuerfan,
Many thanks for your comment and pics. Your ID for your fishes are all OK. P. mccoskeri has some minor variants and I will show you here later. You Blue Flasher is also nicely pictured, and surely Bodianus would be a terror.
Yes, if you introduve them at the same time it is the better, but when I tried to do only one larger flasher to the tank that housed other species of Cirrhilabrus and Paracheilinus no serious problem took place. At first tank mates were curiously looking at the new comer.

Marvin,
Yes, it is possible, and I actually did several times. When I got three cyaneus and four filamentosus they ignored each other and did well.

Madoktopus,
I have no idea what happened, but I have a similar experience some time ago. Perhaps the dead one suffered from an acute shock. Was there some difference in water temperature?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7221981#post7221981 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by H.Tanaka

Marvin,
Yes, it is possible, and I actually did several times. When I got three cyaneus and four filamentosus they ignored each other and did well.

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Thanks for the reply.. :)


Marvin
 
moonpod,
The Eightline Flasher Wrasse is a larer one and a slightly aggressive species for the genus. But you can keep it with other species of Paracheilinus and Cirrhilabrus together.

heuerfan,
Thank you for your kind invitation, but now I failed to submit it. They require my birthday but I cannot add it to the blanks... why?

The reason why we call them the flashers is that they have an ability to flash like a strobe for a short moment. As far as I know only some genera of the wrasse (family Labridae), and Fairy Basslets, can do such behavior. I hope you to have many specimens of flashers soon.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7224151#post7224151 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by H.Tanaka
heuerfan,
Thank you for your kind invitation, but now I failed to submit it. They require my birthday but I cannot add it to the blanks... why?

The reason why we call them the flashers is that they have an ability to flash like a strobe for a short moment. As far as I know only some genera of the wrasse (family Labridae), and Fairy Basslets, can do such behavior. I hope you to have many specimens of flashers soon.
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Hi Tanaka, i guess you were not able to open the link to the video file i posted. It is a video of my Mccosker flashing. I'm not sure what you mean by invitation? I'm assuming you are trying to register with putfile.com? You should not have to register in order to see the video. Don't worry, your not missing anything :) I'm sure you see lots of flashing every day! LOL :D
 
hauerfan,
Really ? I clicked and could see the explanation of the web putfile.com only, so I said "thank you for your invitation"... then I thought that I could enjoy my video on reefcentral. Anyway I could not see your video clip of McCosker's Flasher there..... how to see it.
 
h.tanaka- no they were in the same tank which was divided by a screen when the screen was removed they fought to the death.
 
Madoktppus,
I am sorry; did they show any attacking behavior while they were divided ? For example, one of them "stood up and danced slowly" with all the fins spread just side of the screen or dashed to it when another one appeared ? There will usually be a sign just before an attack exhibited by the attacker.

Tow specimens among the four of P. cyaneus, 7cm showed a serious fighting and made one of them severely wounded to death. They showed a fighting pose (3); they spread all fins and turned blue or white (2). When they fought the colors just turned to the normal ones (1).


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What kind of rules apply to mixing Flashers and Fairy wrasses? I have noted that reds and yellows are predominant colors in Flaher wrasses and I already have 3 Fairy wrasses in reds. I would like to add some Flasher wrasses in the future but I worry that any more red fish inthe complex will set off warfare. I already had to remove a C.punctatus that refused to get along with my Solerinsis, and I would like to try to avoid that in the future.
thanks
 
I picked up this flasher yesterday and sorry my photos arent as good at yours but maybe you can help me ID it here they are

This is with the flash and the best I could get for detail color is way off
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and here is the best representation of the normal nonflashing colors
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basically the entire body of the fish is a dark purple and I havent been able to get anything even close off of fishbase.
Thanks
Scott
 
Thank you Hiroyuki for participating in the fairy thread and for establishing the flasher thread. For those who are unfamiliar, Hiroyuki is, in my opinion, perhaps the world's authority on fairy and flasher wrasses. I seem to recall that he is writing a book on these wonderful animals; I would certainly buy a copy tommorrow or whenever it is available.

Does anyone have a reliable source of pairs of flashers?
 
Thurge,
Yes, there should be a rule for introducing new individuals, but we cannot see exactly what will happen when new comers are added.

scchase,
It is patience to take shots of flasher wrasses in display, because they swimm rapidly on occasion and rarely spread their fins. After spreading fins they will soon fold.

snorvich,
Thanks for your comment, but now I still am preparing the book; now I have a CD version that is not for sale yet, and I am so sorry. There are so many undetermined specimens now, but I am sure to show several new species or subspecies from now, and these should be included in the CD.
 
Hiroyuki,

On the fairy wrasse thread, you posted a table of species, availability, experience, and some locations. Is it possible for you to do a similar thing for flashers?
 
The List of Paracheilinus species
- Availability in Japanese Market -

Availability; very common to scarce at retailers/ * has never been sold in Japan
My Experience; ?? I have been keeping more than three specimens/ 1 or 2; I have kept a few until now/ X has never experienced

Paracheilinus angulatus fairly common ??
Paracheilinus attenuatus scarce (only from Kenya) 1
Paracheilinus bellae scarce (only from the Marshalls) X
Paracheilinus carpenteri very common ??
Paracheilinus cyaneus common ??
Paracheilinus filamentosus very common ??
Paracheilinus flavianalis very common (only from Indonesia) ??
Paracheilinus hemitaeniatus *
Paracheilinus lineopunctatus common ??
Paracheilinus mccoskeri very common (from the Maldives & Kenya) ??
Paracheilinus octotaenia rather rare ??
paracheilinus piscilineatus scarce X
Paracheilinus rubricaudalis very rare (only from Vanuatu) ??
Paracheilinus togeanensis *

- Written by Hiroyuki Tanaka, CCP-Laboratory March, 2006
 
Buzzard,
Thanks for your very nice pics, and I hope you to post more fish photos of your favorite. P. mccoskeri will be shown in this column soon together with very similar carpenteri and flavianalis.
 
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