Let Them Flash!

[eatbreakfast]

Well I've just finished reading this entire thread and all I can say is I'm in love.

I have recently been affected by the Flasher Addiction.

As I'm new to these magnificent fish could some of you Flasher Gurus please help me ID my fish?

I have attempted to ID but would like a more experienced eye cast over my pics. Sorry about the poor quality of photography.

Juvenile Blue Flasher - P. cyaneus?A young male cyaneus



Young Male Carpenter's Flasher - P. carpenteri? Yep



Young Female Carpenter's Flasher - P. carpenteri?Difficult to get a 100% id without seeing the anal fin extended, but it looks like it.


Female Linespot Flasher - P. lineopunctatus?Again, without the anal fin extended tough to tell, but it looks like it.



Male Linespot Flasher - P. lineopunctatus? You got it.



Continued next post...

 

[eatbreakfast]

Yellowfin Flasher - P. flavianalis? It is.



Hybrid P. flavianalis x P. lineopunctatus?It looks to be.



Rod. :thumbsup:

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Awesome colors!

 

[evolved]

Agree with eatbreakfast's thoughts on IDs; the tricky one is the hybrid.

 

[Rod the Reefer]

Thanks very much guys.

I will try to get a shot of what we suspect is a young female carpenters and the young female line spot with anal fins extended.

Rod. :thumbsup:

 

[d-man]

Beautiful wrasses rod

 

[bluecoyote79]

This is my Linespot Wrasse flashing. He seems to go nuts flashing whenever he's happy like after a water change or being fed. I can't wait for my McCosker's Wrasse to get a little older and start flashing.

http://youtu.be/Hdd8aUCCDGA

 

[wrassesngobies]

I got this flasher a few weeks back from one of my LFS and this came in with a filamentosus shipment. This one looked different and I always pick up what he has that are unusual because thats just how I am. Anyway, his anal fin is more yellowish with a blue lower edge, much like some of my flavianalis, but everything else about him look weird. Pardon the horrible iPhone shots and the slightly dirty back glass, he is in one of my quarantine tanks and I let the back get a little furry because it holds microfauna. He has a few filaments but different than everything I have. He did get a bit beaten up by a solorensis prior to be picking him up so one is broken off. No flashing pics yet. Other species I have or have had include flavianalis, mccoskeri, cyaneus, angulatus, lineopunctatus, one I got from Petco which looks like the Maumere sp in the new Kuiter book, and octotaenia. I have a small Carpenter's on the way which I just picked up off DD with a blemished dorsal fin.

Great thread.

Zac

 

[wrassesngobies]

While I am at it, here are a few of my other flashers from the past. The cyaneus was in an open top tank for 6 months with no issues, (when I was newer to the hobby and dumb) until he jumped. The lineopunctatus didn't make it much longer than a few weeks, unfortunately, he was huge and was very pretty. The flavianalis isn't flashing in the pic, his name is Spot because he is like a dog and always comes up to the glass, anytime ANYONE comes by the tank. He is always the first fish up and the last to bed, and is about the most peaceful of all the fish in the tank. And then the only in focus shot I have of my Eight line so far.

Zac

 

[GroktheCube]

Here's my pair of lineopunctatus.

Male:


Female:


The male isn't that big of a flasher just yet. They were recently moved into a new tank, and before the move, he had been playing second fiddle to a large male mccoskeri for about 6 months, before the mccoskeri was done in by a lurking Xanthid :-/.

 

[wrassesngobies]

This is the fish I am getting from LA DD. He looks great in the picture, should arrive on Tuesday.

Zac

 

[this is me]

My Yellowfin.

 

[evolved]

I got this flasher a few weeks back from one of my LFS and this came in with a filamentosus shipment. This one looked different and I always pick up what he has that are unusual because thats just how I am. Anyway, his anal fin is more yellowish with a blue lower edge, much like some of my flavianalis, but everything else about him look weird.

It's a flavianalis x. filamentosus hybrid.

 

[miranda1960]

hello all.. i am from Belgium and pretty new in the flasher world but i think they are THE jewels among the fishes... i bought recently a pair of paracheilinus attenuates and a day ago i thought at the shop i see another female but when i got home "she" (flashed) so i think its a male of a yellowfin .. (picture will follow later on)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMdYYQwthCc&feature=youtu.be

 

[wrassesngobies]

The Second and third pics look like a Cirrhilabrus sp, maybe johnsonii or cf. lanceolatus, but not a Paracheilinus. Whatever it is, I am jealous of it.

Zac

 

[miranda1960]

The Second and third pics look like a Cirrhilabrus sp, maybe johnsonii or cf. lanceolatus, but not a Paracheilinus. Whatever it is, I am jealous of it.

Zac

maybe on this picture its better to see :strange: even i am pretty sure its P.attenuates (look at the tail en the spot on the dorsal fin )

 

[wrassesngobies]

I can tell you that is NOT Paracheilinus attenuatus. From the image, it looks like Cirrhilabrus cf. lanceolatus. I am still jealous. See this link https://www.google.com/search?q=Cir...oTCIbks5XflcgCFQOcgAodAwsDCQ&biw=1047&bih=504

Zac

 

[albano]

... From the image, it looks like cirrhilabrus cf. Lanceolatus.

+1

 

[miranda1960]

thx you are right ... the importer overhere for all europe sold them as P.attenuates... a friend of me has bought also one so please IDD if possible is this P.attenuates??? :headwally:

 

[wrassesngobies]

That one is attenuatus. Also jealous of your friend's wrasse.