iamwrasseman
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very nice pictures and awesome fish here . the labouti's looks wery small ,what is his size ?
Wanted to Share my New Wrasses
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a picture of nusalim's flasher please...i have seen the pictures of other three...:fish1:
LemonLemon
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Paracheilinus nursalim
West papua, triton bay. Found in shallow water and large harems can constist of 30-100 specimens!!
Males have two black bands near the tail and belly when displaying.
the pictures were taken from my book. Rudie Kuiter's wrasse book.
oh!it's nursalim..i searched nusalim....
thanks for clarifying...i don't have books..but i get my information from here..
http://www.saltcorner.com/AquariumLibrary/browsegroupspecies.php?GroupID=79
but even they don't list Paracheilinus nursalim...
thanks for clarifying...i don't have books..but i get my information from here..
http://www.saltcorner.com/AquariumLibrary/browsegroupspecies.php?GroupID=79
but even they don't list Paracheilinus nursalim...
LemonLemon
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that link is good but some of the info is wrong.
Cirrhilabrus randalli is a super rare fairy from north western australia and rowley shoals. it looks like C. luteovittatus and cyanopleura. it's part of the cyanopleura complex.
C. randalli has no pictures on anywhere except some books and it's ridiculously rare. the pic they show on the website shows C. pylei from the cebu philippines. it's not C. randalli.
also they do not have some of the rarer and newer fairy wrasses like Cirrhilabrus cenderawasih, etc.
P. nursalim is a relatively new member and also super rare with hardly any photos available, so it's unlikely to find information there.
You can request for a photo of any wrasse species and i'll post a pic here from kuiter's wrasse book.
but the only photo and info that's not available is of C. claire from the cooks.
Cirrhilabrus randalli is a super rare fairy from north western australia and rowley shoals. it looks like C. luteovittatus and cyanopleura. it's part of the cyanopleura complex.
C. randalli has no pictures on anywhere except some books and it's ridiculously rare. the pic they show on the website shows C. pylei from the cebu philippines. it's not C. randalli.
also they do not have some of the rarer and newer fairy wrasses like Cirrhilabrus cenderawasih, etc.
P. nursalim is a relatively new member and also super rare with hardly any photos available, so it's unlikely to find information there.
You can request for a photo of any wrasse species and i'll post a pic here from kuiter's wrasse book.
but the only photo and info that's not available is of C. claire from the cooks.
LemonLemon
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which wrasses?
Cirrhilabrus randalli and Cirrhilabrus cenderawasih? these are not "new" but are relatively newer
C. randalli was described in 1995 but it's existance has always been somewhat of an enigma and not many people know of the fish. it was described by Allen and the type specimen was obtained in Rowley shoals Western australia.
It's endemic to Rowley shoals and some reefs in timor sea. from the picture you can see it's very similar in colouration to the species in the "cyanopleura complex" and looks almost like lyukyuensis, but with the yellow patch extending all the way out toward the tail. colouration resembles also like luteovittatus.
C. cenderawasih is a unique one. It's recently described only in 2006 by Allen again and the type specimen was obtained in West papua. It's found only there and it's very similar to Cirrhilabrus walindi which is also another rare one.
Although not a certified "complex", i tend to group cenderawasih, walindi and marjorie together as they look very similar. also flavidorsalis too.
LemonLemon
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I'm sorry to everyone if i'm going off topic here.
LemonLemon
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mm...
not that i know of. most are pretty tropical.
even the deeper water ones like rhomboidalis seem to do very well in warmer reef tank set ups.
maybe the japanese endemic cirrhilabrus need cooler water? Cirrhilabrus lanceolatus, Cirrhilabrus katoi. It's only a wild guess though. i'm quite clueless on this.
also some of the pretty deep water ones like Cirrhilabrus blatteus and the super rare almost unknown Cirrihilabrus claire have not been kept before. C. claire lives in the cooks at deep water and has not been seen since they described the holotype many years ago.
but if you ask me i think almost all can withstand tropical temperatures. all those that come into the trade at least. temperatures up to 28 degrees Celcius is fine.
pacislandaqua
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you can always tell a male fairy from a female by the elongated pectoral fins. Females always have short stubby ones 
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