Let Them Flash!

[ilikefish34]

Saw these at a LFS... they came in as Filamented but they seem to be lacking the filaments. Could they be Royals (Angulatus) or a hybrid?





Sorry, it won't let me rotate them... and the video is better but it won't let me upload it.

Thanks
Mike

 

[Overboard]

Looks like a Royal Flasher to me. Good looking wrasse. The hybrids have a little different tail shape.

 

[ilikefish34]

Thanks, this is the first one of the species that I've seen in person so I wanted to make sure that I was telling them correctly.

Thanks
Mike

 

[eatbreakfast]

Looks like a Royal Flasher to me. Good looking wrasse. The hybrids have a little different tail shape.

Yep, P. angulatus. Besides different tails, an easier way to identify their hybrids is the presence of filaments. Any congeners that overlap it's range have filaments, so their offspring will have some.

 

[ilikefish34]

Anybody aware of the longevity of most of these Flashers?

 

[bradleyj]

 

[evolved]

Anybody aware of the longevity of most of these Flashers?

~6 years

 

[gregrocks79]

I've got a 25g fusion lagoon tank I'm building, and I'm thinking of doing mostly flasher wrasses. Can I do different specifies or do I need to have a group of the same?

I have a lid for the tank since I know they love to go carpet surfing haha

 

[evolved]

I've got a 25g fusion lagoon tank I'm building, and I'm thinking of doing mostly flasher wrasses. Can I do different specifies or do I need to have a group of the same?

You'll want to do different species; don't do more than one of any particular species.

I have a lid for the tank since I know they love to go carpet surfing haha

So long as any openings are 1/4" or less, good to go.

 

[gregrocks79]

Sweet thanks!!

You'll want to do different species; don't do more than one of any particular species.





So long as any openings are 1/4" or less, good to go.

 

[hogfanreefer]

My yellow fin getting frisky in QT.

 

[gregrocks79]

I think I need this wrasse for my new tank!! Haha it's gorgeous

My yellow fin getting frisky in QT.

 

[Baldguy]

I'm curious about the op of this thread H. Tanaka. Notice he hasn't posted in many years. I read he will soon have a new book out about Fairy and Flasher Wrasses. Looking forward to it and hoping there will be an English edition.

 

[Devaji108]

OK flashers wrasse Gurus...

its time to stock my 90 mixed reef I am thing of 3 or 4 wrasses flashes and maybe a fairy.
my understanding is that you can mix all flashers and fairy they will get along.

only fish in the tank is a royal Gramma
i plan on getting a midas blenny
and maybe kole tang and dwarf angle but not 100% sure on the last two.

I am thinking all males if I can find them online -L.A ( no LFS with in 120 miles )
thinking:
McCosker's
Carpenter's
yellow fin
Longfin Fairy
and or Multicolor Lubbock's Fairy

so my question are will these flashers and fairy's get along.
should I add all flashed at the same time?
or can I add one a few weeks down the rd.?

any other fish that you would suggest.

thanks guys. just doing my research before jumping on the flasher wagon...

 

[miranda1960]

OK flashers wrasse Gurus...

its time to stock my 90 mixed reef I am thing of 3 or 4 wrasses flashes and maybe a fairy.
my understanding is that you can mix all flashers and fairy they will get along.

only fish in the tank is a royal Gramma
i plan on getting a midas blenny
and maybe kole tang and dwarf angle but not 100% sure on the last two.

I am thinking all males if I can find them online -L.A ( no LFS with in 120 miles )
thinking:
McCosker's
Carpenter's
yellow fin
Longfin Fairy
and or Multicolor Lubbock's Fairy

so my question are will these flashers and fairy's get along.
should I add all flashed at the same time?
or can I add one a few weeks down the rd.?

any other fish that you would suggest.

thanks guys. just doing my research before jumping on the flasher wagon...

flashers and fairys going together thats no problem... but i don't recomment rubriventralis they are little bit agressive then others.. you don't have to put them all together at once...
suggesting .. cirrhilabrus tonozukai.. beautifull fish and not agressive same with cirrhilabrus laboutei

 

[albano]

suggesting .. cirrhilabrus tonozukai.. beautifull fish and not agressive same with cirrhilabrus laboutei

IMO/E, Labouti can be very aggressive...

 

[miranda1960]

i have 3 laboutei's and non of them is agressief to the others .. this is my collection wrasses now...

1 x cirrhilabrus tonozukai
1 x cirrhilabrus rubromarginatus
1 x cirrhilabrus exquisitus
1 x paracheilinus attenuates
3 x cirrhilabrus laboutei
1 x cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis
1 x cirrhilabrus lineatus
1 x pseudocheilinus occelatus
2 x marcopharyngodon meleagris
1 x macropharyngodon bipartitus

 

[Betaktical]

my sunset fairy wrasse. Love this guy. Always swims strait at me when I walk by my tank


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[d-man]

Pylei. They can get extremely aggressive. So be aware

 

[Betaktical]

Pylei. They can get extremely aggressive. So be aware

Really. Everyone says they are super peaceful. My Cardinal actually bullies this guy sometimes lol


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