A brand new(ly discovered) fairy wrasse was at MACNA!!

[Daniel@R2R]

The Monsoon Fairy Wrasse is a newly discovered fairy wrasse available from Carolina Aquatics. If you want to read more about it, here's an article by AquaNerd that discusses it: http://aquanerd.com/2016/08/35665.html

Carolina Aquatics brought some of them to MACNA, so here are my pics of them (they're cell phone pics, so they're not great, but this is really cool fish that I wanted to share with you guys anyway. ). These are both male and female specimens:

 

[Labridaedicted]

This is a great looking little fairy wrasse. Remember seeing it described a few months back. Interesting that a company can have exclusive rights to sell a species. Don't think I've ever heard of that happening before.

 

[steve&mari]

Cool wrasse gotta love em

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Yeah and they want $1500 wholesale!

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Yeah and they want $1500 wholesale!

Not surprising for a fish that was just announced last month IME. It'll come down in price.

 

[drernesto]

Thanks Daniel for the share! I dropped by their booth and the wrasses are awesome. They asked for $1500 for a male and 3 females i think.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Thanks Daniel for the share! I dropped by their booth and the wrasses are awesome. They asked for $1500 for a male and 3 females i think.

That's not a bad price at all! Especially for a newly discovered fish. That comes out to around $300-$400 each.

 

[FDAWG]

Thanks Daniel for the share! I dropped by their booth and the wrasses are awesome. They asked for $1500 for a male and 3 females i think.

They told me 3K for the trio. Great looking wrasse but I rather have a Lennardi.

 

[stunreefer]

Interesting that a company can have exclusive rights to sell a species. Don't think I've ever heard of that happening before.

There are many species only distributed by one collector (Monsoon in this case), and sometimes one wholesaler (Carolina Aquatics in this case), generally relating to species location. They are frequently offered by many retailers, however.

The exclusive just means Monsoon will only export them to Carolina Aquatics

They are very cool fish, we visited them several times.

FWIW the price points discussed above are moot until a retailer brings them in and prices them accordingly.

 

[Larry L]

They were pretty amazing in person, the photos do not do them justice. Jimmy Colson picked up a trio, you can see his awesome tank in Reef2Reef TV Episode 34: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/r...jimmy-colsons-600g-sps-dominated-tank.263280/

 

[drernesto]

That's not a bad price at all! Especially for a newly discovered fish. That comes out to around $300-$400 each.

Yeah not bad at all.

 

[reefwiser]

Here is the video I shot of the wrasse.

 

[4FordFamily]

@evolved @eatbreakfast

Tagged you guys, you may already know. Interested in your thoughts.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

They told me 3K for the trio. Great looking wrasse but I rather have a Lennardi.

Lennardi?

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Yeah, so Im on a list for a pair. I don't want a trio.

 

[FDAWG]

Lennardi?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lennardi+wrasse

 

[evolved]

@evolved @eatbreakfast

Tagged you guys, you may already know. Interested in your thoughts.

Yeah, well aware of the species. Knew about it before the paper was published.

I checked them out at MACNA, but meh. 3k was his retail asking price for a trio. It's a nice fish, but that price is about $2700 more than I'd pay for a trio of anything in the feisty rubriventralis complex.

I have nice photos on the camera, whenever I get around to actually processing the RAW files.