Wrasse ID anapses spp?

[29reef]

Sorry for the poor photo and lack of information. The closes guess I have is an anapses species, but I really have no idea. It was about 2" long and active. It struck me as a very beautiful fish. If I had a qt available I would have snagged it. I don't think it's around any longer.

Thanks. I might try and track down another depending on what it is.

 

[curlykid]

looks like some sort of tamarin wrasse

 

[LukFox]

Good thing you passed, it's a coral eater. It's one of the tubelip wrasses, Labropsis xanthonata.

 

[29reef]

Alexa- When you say coral eater what do you mean? They look really neat as adults. Any more info would be much appreciated.

 

[LukFox]

Juveniles like this will act as a cleaner fish, but as adults they really only eat coral polyps.

 

[29reef]

As in sps corals, lps, zoas?

Neat looking fish, are the aggressive in fish only tanks?

 

[LukFox]

I would assume sps from the shape of their mouths, but I can't find anything specific. It seems they are peaceful, but I would imagine the hard part is teaching them to eat things other than coral polyps and if it should be done. Actually the hardest part is probably getting them to survive... From what I've seen they don't ship well.

 

[snorvich]

SPS polyps as an adult.

 

[anbosu]

Wow, you learn something every day. Didn't think there were any wrasses that ate corals.

 

[Western_reefer]

wow, you learn something every day. Didn't think there were any wrasses that ate corals.

+1

 

[snorvich]

My reference on this is here.