Let Me ID Your Wrasse!

[eatbreakfast]

Just picked this one up tonight. Do you know what type of fairy wrasse, and if it is male or female?

It looks like a male C. cyanopleura, Bali variant

 

[evolved]

Thanks Hunter! Foresee any issues with him and other males like a Rhomboid or Pintail?

No; there shouldn't be any issues there. Mixing with another male Macropharyngodon species could be a problem, however.

Just picked this one up tonight. Do you know what type of fairy wrasse, and if it is male or female?

It's certainly a male as evident by the extended pelvic fins.
As for the species, there's always some discontent in this particular arena between C. cyanopleura and C. aurantidorsalis.
My opinion is this one is Cirrhilabrus aurantidorsalis.

It looks like a male C. cyanopleura, Bali variant

And it is a possibility, but I feel there's too much division amongst the different colors on the sides of the body.

 

[Chrissy]

Thanks a bunch!

 

[mike.creech.39]

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/fish-discussion/144877-my-black-damsel-turning-white.html

 

[Connie]

OK guys here's my new wrasse! There has been no editing on the pic except for resizing. Isn't he beautiful??? He started eating only an hour after acclimation.

 

[evolved]

A very nice terminal male Cirrhilabrus lineatus; he may loose a bit of the saturation in the finnage.

 

[Eienna]

OK guys here's my new wrasse! There has been no editing on the pic except for resizing. Isn't he beautiful??? He started eating only an hour after acclimation.

He IS gorgeous!

 

[eatbreakfast]

Here are a couple of fish to see if anyone can identify. Each is common in the wild, but not too often offered in the hobby. Apologies in advance for the quality of the photos.

Here are a couple of pics of species 1




A different specimen, same species.


Here is species 2







So, what do you think?

 

[evolved]

Am I allowed to play? I instantly know what species 2 is, and 1 is obviously a Halichoeres sp. (but I'll have to dig for the specific species).

 

[Marshall O]

I am thinking #1 is a Vrolik's (H. chrysotaenia). But I am not too good with Halichoeres, so I could be wrong.

 

[evolved]

Got it (#1).

I am thinking #1 is a Vrolik's (H. chrysotaenia). But I am not too good with Halichoeres, so I could be wrong.

Not it; sorry Marshall. :)

 

[Marshall O]

Got it (#1).


Not it; sorry Marshall. :)

Figured as much. Too many Halichoeres that look similar for me to keep track of!

 

[evolved]

Yawn... :p

Halichoeres papilionaceus
Xenojulis margaritaceus

 

[Greenstreet.1]

 

[evolved]

^ Macropharyngodon negrosensis near the sand bed, and the faintest red something in the shaddows (needs a better photo).

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Thank you that's the id I was looking for.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Yawn... :p

Halichoeres papilionaceus
Xenojulis margaritaceus

Got it. At least I made you dig for species 1 :wink:

 

[SkipperTheSohalTang]

Hello, do you know how to tell a male and female Lunar Wrasse apart, also it doesn't dig/borrow?

 

[Eienna]

Hello, do you know how to tell a male and female Lunar Wrasse apart, also it doesn't dig/borrow?

Lunar Fairy, or Lunare (Moon) wrasse?

 

[SkipperTheSohalTang]

Moon @Einna