Let Them Flash!

a male flame will cost more then a 8-line flasher! My LFS sells 8-line flashers for 50$ (the owner has been around for a long time and gets crazy deals) Male flames will easily go for 150-300$ now since not many are being pulled out. I live here and i havn't seen any for a little while! lol

i have big aussie scotts coming tomorrow. I love acclimating! its like christmas time :)
 
h. tanaka do you have any pics of a juv. solor wrasse...i think i just got one i will try to get a pic later but i am pretty sure that is what he is.
 
My favorite.

Carpenter's flasher wrasse flashing.
The color wasn't as bright as the pictures I saw on the internet but I loved him for his character more than anything.

He normally sleeps all day at the bottom behind the rocks and swim fast and flash all over the place after I feed him the frozen mysis shrimps. ^^
Hope to have more like him in the future.

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A nice specimen !

It is not carpenteri but flavianalis that ranges Indonesia and Western Australia. Carpenter's FW has an anal fin that is mostly red, and yellow basally. They are quite similar !
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8049389#post8049389 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LargeAngels
BlueNWhite: Are you thinking of the "other" 8 line wrasse Pseudocheilinus octotaenia?
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LargeAngels, now that you mention it, I think I did get it mixed up with the other 8 line wrasse. Thanks for making a note of that for me and now thanks for adding another fish to my 'wanted list'.:D
 
H.Tanaka > Thanks for correcting me. I wondered about it too.
I thought it could be a variation or a cross breed.

This one jumped out of the tank while I had been working on my sump.
There was just enough opening for him to squeeze out I guess.
I feel sorry for him since he had real personality for a fish.

I would try to stock some more in my fish central tank soon.
 
Is this a male or female???

Is this a male or female???

H. Tanaka i was wanting to know if my eightline is a male or not or if it is too young to tell i will notice a color chang in it at times and it will put up its fins like it is trying to display and rush from side to side of the tank...i have had it for six months now and it is still small but my favorite flasher i have.. a good deal for $35.
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It would be called a large female in sex changing, and is nearly male form, because it has apparently seven lines on side. It may keep the form for some period or become a male with larger fins and eight lines. It may dpend on the circumstance of the tank and tank mates.
 
h.tanaka thanks for the info. Its tank mates are a male solor wrasse, male exqusite, mccosker male, a female of either a lubbocki,flavidorsalis its hard to tell....i was wanting to know if i should get another flasher of some kind ...that might help it change into a nice male.
 
It should be difficult to make it a male faster, but females of the same species or of other members of Paracheilinus could be a trigger, but I have no experience.
 
again thanks for the info...i will just wait it out and see i did get a new c. balteatus today but had to pay a pretty penny for the guy but it was a big male and is already eating any and everything i put in the tank...i will have to post a pic soon but this guy has some really slick colors
 
Hello Tanaka, i am very lucky today, i found a replacement for a flasher that i lost a year ago. I'm not sure if it is a mccosker, please help me ID.



Here is my current mccosker,


Here is a close up of the anal fin, starting with the new fish,


And my current mccosker,


Thanks for your help as always,
Steven
 
wrasseguy2,

That's good to hear that you got a big balteatus. It is only rarely available in Japan and too expensive. Hope to see your pics soon.


heuerfan,

Thanks for the pics of a new specimen, and it surely has an unusual anal fin with yellow basally that is differing from that of body; they are almost the same in mccoskeri. Also there is a narrow line between the red and yellow instead a row of spots in yours, and how interesting it is ! Where did it come from ?

I can say that it probably is a variant of mccoskeri but I am not sure. Take better shots when it is freely swimming. If it comes from Australia it may be new to science and preserve it in formalin when it dies to send me for examination (I am sorry for such a story now).

Many thanks, you enthusiasts.
 
i was going to say mccosker :) It does look a little different! i hope my mccosker has brightened up with his 2 little females with him :)
 
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