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Looks like an Aussie. Check on his tail fin under your white lights. If it's red (which it looks to be but hard to be 100% positive) it's an aussie.
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Looks like an Aussie. Check on his tail fin under your white lights. If it's red (which it looks to be but hard to be 100% positive) it's an aussie.
Does it really matter, he's gorgeous. I had a indie that rivaled any aussie you would have ever seen. Look on a map, the same fish swimming in the indo one day, and off the coast of Australia the next. The price tag is really just paying the differences in cost associated with landing and shipping from Indonesia vs Australia. I think for the most part, they are the same fish, I've seen brilliant indos and plain jane aussies and vice versa, and have busted my share of lfs ripping off customers charging aussie prices for indo fish.
I’ve not seen that as common behavior, but since they’re technically a wrasse it can/does happen.Kinda off-topic question, but is it normal behavior for a harlequin tusk to dig tunnels? Mine has dug thru 2 inches of sand bed underneath my rock work from one side to other. It only recently did this. Otherwise, it’s eating fine and swimming fine. Maybe it’s normal for any wrasse to frolic in the sand?
From information I collected above I can confidently says that you have a Indo Harlequin Tusk
Better picture is needed but I think I am leaning toward Indo TuskSince we’re discussing ID’ing, I bought Harley from DD as an Aussie but I have never been 100% sure. Can anyone tell?
Man, I’ve bought fish from DD before but I never expected them to misrepresent one of their livestock. Paid $$ for a juvenile HT too :/Better picture is needed but I think I am leaning toward Indo Tusk
Looks like a small one. Look at the smaller HT pictures above, especially the 3-4 inches ones. Looks at the 4 bands under the dorsal fins. It seem like your fish bands are too thick to be Australia.Man, I’ve bought fish from DD before but I never expected them to misrepresent one of their livestock. Paid $$ for a juvenile HT too :/
Harlequin Tusk is one of my most favorite fish. I tried my best to learn about them so I can keep them healthy. Let me tried to answer your questions. Below are picture of my Tusk (Australia) at just about 3.75 inches and a DD Tusk at 4.25. You can see from the pictures, their color maturation is about the same. It is possible that my photo technique is a little better, or my fish is much healthier. That cannot be help. Regardless, I think the differences I point out are not affect by these factors (except maybe one)Hmmm my reef lights are primarily blue-ish in tint so maybe changing them to white might help with ID’ing of the HT, if I were to focus on face and fin(which?) coloration??