Trifecta

[cee]

Thanks to Dave (and Chris in the past) at the CR last night for helping me complete my 3 most desired fishes. Here they are. Please excuse the poor photo quality, partial out of focus and dirty glass:

1st addition, rhomboid fairy wrasse, brought in as a juvi, starting to morph into a male now and coloring up nicely (quite a transformation, huh Chris?):

Next came the lineatus, still looking like a female, but who knows? Beautiful regardless...

Finally, last night I got a male laboutei, g'day mate:

Dave

 

[ct_vol]

Gorgeous fish Dave...

 

[fishdoc11]

Nice Dave....good luck with the new one

 

[gflat65]

I'm drooling, Dave... I love wrasses. A pair of M. bipartitus, a pair of lineatus, and a mysteri and I'd be ecstatic.

 

[seased]

nice fish Dave. Maybe a dumb question, but are all of these considered wrasses? How big do they get?

 

[digidana]

nice lookin fish? you bet your-wrasse! sorry, had to do it.

 

[GPhiAce]

Now you are just showing off for the meeting. Very nice fish.

 

[acrodave]

That pic of the laboutei gives it no justice. I saw it in the bag and it was sweet

 

[cee]

Yep, my photos are not good, I'll grant you that They're all fairy wrasses, ideal reef fishes but notorious jumpers. 4" is typical and I think they can get up to 6" but I've never seen one that big. They aren't collected that often due to their deep water habitat.

 

[KafudaFish]

Pretty!!!
Are you going to spend 5 minutes discussing themat the meeting?

Opps I meant 50 minutes.

 

[RevHtree]

Wow man very very nice!

 

[cee]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11964723#post11964723 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by KafudaFish
Are you going to spend 5 minutes discussing them at the meeting?

Nope, alkalinity/calcium/magnesium will take awhile to explain and make everybody understand. Boring for the old-timers, but with all the new blood, a very universal and important topic IMO. My "ulterior motive" with these pictures is to try and entice a large turnout at the meeting because I believe that everyone can greatly benefit from being a member of a reef club!

 

[NeveSSL]

Wow! Very, very beautiful fish. Congrats, Dave!

I tried a Scotts Fairy Wrasse (Australian) the other day... he didn't make it. I'm going to try again, though. Or maybe just go with a Solar Wrasse.

Brandon

 

[seased]

so these are fairy wrasses - are there other types of wrasses? No sure if "type" is the right terminology. I have a 6-line wrasse - what type is it? Thanks

 

[cee]

David:
I hate to paste links, but I think most of what you'd ever want to know about wrasses can likely be found here, or at least enough to whet your appetite:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/fishes/wrasses/index.htm

Dave