Fish ID Help

[AnxiousReefEnjoyer]

My lfs had this guy labeled as a tiger watchman goby but it looks NOTHING like any goby I've seen.

edit: more pictures further down the thread

 

[StartingATank]

Looks like some kind of basslet. Unsure what kind though

 

[AnxiousReefEnjoyer]

Looks like some kind of basslet. Unsure what kind though

I think it might be a wrasse of some kind? It's been pecking at my copepod rubble pile

 

[StartingATank]

I think it might be a wrasse of some kind? It's been pecking at my copepod rubble pile

That could also be true, but pretty much all but one of my carnivorous fish eat the small amount of hitchhiking pods in my tank. So it would also be a wrasse.

 

[DSC reef]

Its hard to tell for me by the pictures but look up a chalk basslet and see that looks like your fish.

 

[AnxiousReefEnjoyer]

Its hard to tell for me by the pictures but look up a chalk basslet and see that looks like your fish.

I'll try to get some better pictures but I don't think it is. chalk basslets don't have a dorsal fin spot and tail spot

 

[AnxiousReefEnjoyer]

 

[StartingATank]

What about a candy basslet? It does look somewhat similar but they are pretty different too

 

[AnxiousReefEnjoyer]

What about a candy basslet? It does look somewhat similar but they are pretty different too

it has more vertical stripes and one horizontal, so I don't thinks so? I've never seen a candy with vertical stripes

 

[AnxiousReefEnjoyer]

Mystery Solved! it is a Juvenile Puddingwife Wrasse. Lil dude was returned so that he can go to an adiquite home aka NOT an aio nano