picked up a beautiful carpenter's flasher wrasse

[Benny Z]

stopped into tmr tonight because i heard they were getting a bali/red sea/hawaii fish order in. they got in some beautiful fairy wrasses... blue flashers, carpenter's, exquisites, scott's, and probably a few others i'm forgetting.

the colors on all of these fish are amazing! i walked away with a great deal on an adult male carpenter's flasher. i'll try to get some pics soon.

 

[brad23]

I'll be picking up this guy tomorrow.

http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/wrassereefsafe/exquisitefairywrasse/

This fish looks unreal

This is a uncommon fish and isn't seen around very much in the USA.

 

[RV8tor]

Nice, I just picked up a lawnmower blenny and TMR is holding a powder blue tang for me. I/ my wife was looking at the blue wrasse that guy had.

 

[brad23]

The exquisite wrasses he had were by far the nicest in there and most expensive. They were also close to fully grown. He had three I grabbed the nicest one out of the bunch.

 

[brad23]

I'll take a pic when I get a chance this is a much nicer looking wrasse than the painted fairy wrasse I have, the pinks and reds on it are unreal.

 

[Benny Z]

glad to hear you got the exquisite. you may want to put a couple of short pieces of pvc in your qt tank for him to hide in until he's acclimated to the other fish.

my red juevenile (unknown) fairy wrasse picked a fight with the carpenter as soon as i finished acclimating him. but, it only seemed to be a quick fight and they seem to be doing fine together today. they are both swimming all over, under, and around the rocks and sometimes hang out together.

i really like these fairy wrasses. ...might have to plan accordingly when the 200g is ready to stock.

 

[brad23]

So far there has been no fighting or any signs of it from the two Wrasses and the new is still taking cover under the rocks.

 

[brad23]

Here he is after two days in the QT tank

 

[blooper74]

Nice looking fish Brad.

 

[brad23]

If you can see it through all the crud, I haven't cleaned the QT tank in a long time.

It better look nice for $60, This pic was taken with the flash as well, it would look better with out the flash on.

 

[Benny Z]

just found out my flasher may actually be a mccoskers instead of a carpenters. apparently they both look very similar, but the mccoskers has a single top fin instead of 3 spikes like the carpenters.

mine looks exactly like this one:

can anyone confirm? henry?

 

[brad23]

You got a good deal with what you paid then. Those go for almost double what the carpenters go for.