Wrasse ID Please

[Reef908]

Today I went to a close by petco to get some dry goods (I never buy livestock there but this location seems way more on top of their tanks than other neglected petco's I have stopped in) and I saw an interesting wrasse I have not see before I don't think. Can anyone identify it? They have it listed as a $39 leopard wrasse but it looks like some kind of halichorus to me....

 

[Mr tap water]

Wrasse ID Please

I would say it a Lunare.


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[Reef908]

Ahh! That's it. I never saw a juvenile one. Google image looks exactly like what I saw and a medium one on live aquaria is spot on at $39. Needs a bigger home than what I have at the moment but a very nice looking fish imo. Thanks!

 

[brett559]

My Petco always has those to. Those and six-lines are the only wrasses they ever stock.

 

[Reef908]

A six line was in the tank with it haha

 

[reef thief]

Six line=SATAN. That wrasse is good though. IMO I would get it but QT that mofo.

 

[R1ant04]

Leopard wrasse...lmao, smh.

 

[eastlake]

Leopard wrasse...lmao, smh.

I agree, very silly. That being said, a lot of times when a fish shipment comes in to a fish store where the folks aren't totally sure of what they are looking at they just defer to the list to see what hasn't been checked in yet, and the distributor may have sent a lunar in place of the leopard because they were out of leopards, that happens a lot too.