Let's see your rare wrasses!!!!

[Jmason95]

....I just got my Red Tail Flasher and Pink Margin today, will post up pics soon, my battery was dead when I tried

Photos?? I'm considering getting a Pink Margin; how is yours doing?

 

[btkrausen]

Photos?? I'm considering getting a Pink Margin; how is yours doing?

It died due to some disease that a new flame wrasse brought in. I was actually kind of surprised on how close he resembled a Rhomboid. All my fish are in quarantine right now while waiting on my new tank. They are in their 2nd week of copper after a week of Furan-2 and a week of PraziPro. They all look much much better.

 

[holdyourlight]

Is this a Lubbocks?

 

[NyReefNoob]

yes

 

[mystery_reef]

i wonder who will end up with the amazing erlei wrasse that PIA has?!?

 

[Hookup]

here's my new hawiian flame; not super rare, but not that common either...

 

[bradleyj]

i wonder who will end up with the amazing erlei wrasse that PIA has?!?

I know. :thumbsup:

 

[huskerreef]

I know. :thumbsup:

me to

 

[huskerreef]

I think this qualifies for rare. Was told there only this one in US and 2 or 3 in Japan from the collector in Mauritus

 

[aquaph8]

You two better keep us updated. Jim that Mauritus is beautiful.

 

[mystery_reef]

i think my female johnsoni is turning to a male. might be hard to tell from my iphone pic but let me know what you think. thx
she has grown considerably and is very robust, gorging herself while feeding.
here is maybe a reason why. i actually lost my original male johnsoni . i still have no idea why. i received a new male but there was a decent amount of time in between where the female was solo in the tank but mixed with the other fairies(all males). she does not like the new male who is smaller and i am still working on beasting up(placed him back in acc box after trying him out in display). tmrw i am going to try and put the male in the display and the female back in the acc box to give the male some time to settle in and grow. the female likes to chase him around, nothing extreme but i fear it would get there.

 

[huskerreef]

Definetly looks like she changing. I have had several experiences with a male wrasse dying and within days the female have all turned male. Recenly with my Balteatus, the male died and within 2 days the female got the marks of the male.

 

[mystery_reef]

i agree she is def changing. now my question is what do i attempt to do? i put the sub male in the acc box and the male out in the display to try and get him settled. do i attempt to have both co exist? sell one? or i was thinking about keeping the submale and adding 1 or 2 females. a harem of these would be sweet. i wonder how'd they all do? she is changing but it's been slow and now maybe halted cuz of the presence of the smaller male?

 

[bradleyj]

A few updated pictures of a couple of my wrasses.

P. Bellae

C. Earlei.

Two of my C. Rhomboid

C. Labouti

Paracheilinus cyaneus

Macropharyngodon kuiteri

 

[aquaph8]

Has the colors changed on the kuiteri since you got him or is it just the picture. Looks like the color on his face is a lot brighter.

 

[bradleyj]

Most likely just the picture. He's gotten larger and rounder. But the color seems the same. He's grown a lot faster than the smaller one.

 

[bradleyj]

 

[aquaph8]

Just Beautiful. Someday I will find one.

 

[prop-frags]

awesome Brad!
Has anyone else noticed rare wrasse keepers also take good pics?

 

[Pylos]

The fish themselves aren't rare, but healthy specimens of all three species in the same tank seems to be, Macropharyngodon meleagris, bipartitus and geoffroyi:

A little over a year my bipartitus went male. My favorite fish. Are these fish pretty rare as healthy males?: