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[evolved]

Can anyone ID this female Fairy? TIA

C. pylei

 

[OrionN]

Thanks

 

[OrionN]

Is 30.00 a good price for her?

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Is 30.00 a good price for her?

I could answer that one [emoji33][emoji23] yes. But the ones I had don’t play nice.

 

[evolved]

Is 30.00 a good price for her?

Pretty cheap IMO. But you might want to consider: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/c...feriority-need-not-apply-1st-revision.322326/

 

[OrionN]

I can get her for 30.00. The males, from Internet pictures seem to be beautiful. I saw that Hunter said they are aggressive. I wonder if I should chance it in my tank. 320 gal tank. 30.00 seem to be a great price for this wrasse, but I got a Blue throat that I have to return to the LFS due to aggressiveness.

 

[OrionN]

I guess I pass on this.

 

[Greenstreet.1]

I guess I pass on this.

This is a wrasse that I like a lot but unfortunately they are very aggressive I learned the hard way the three times I tried in the pass.

30$ is a steal also.

 

[saltyhog]

Are C. pyeli females collected more than other fairy wrasse females? Seems like almost every time we have a female Cirrhilabrus ID it's a pylei.

 

[evolved]

Are C. pyeli females collected more than other fairy wrasse females? Seems like almost every time we have a female Cirrhilabrus ID it's a pylei.

At the moment.
Next year it will be something else.

 

[OrionN]

It looks like Hooded Fairy Wrasse also. Every other weeks C. bathyphilus been offer for sale at 44.99 at Live Aquaria. I ordered two several weeks ago but the came in emaciated. One DOA the other died by the next day. They are on sale now

 

[david p.]

to make a long story short, i purchased a couple of hooded fairy wrasse from vanuatu back in November, the shop at the fish for a while.

Since the past couple of weeks, maybe months, the female started to change color (changing sexe to a male), but to my surprise it's not 'morphing' into a hooded fairy wrasse.

Here's 2 video of my wrasse, we dont see all the colors.
The dorsal fin has a sail shape like, mostly black, with orange in the middle and a fine blue line on the lower part on the back.
it also has a fine blue line in the middle of his body, just where the red and white meets. lower fin is black, with an orangish line in the middle. tail has a lot of blue.
when he's flashing, he turns orange with some white area... pretty impressive




from my research on the web, i found thispicture of Cirrhilabrus marinda, my wrasse is pretty similar to the picture C (lower left).

and to this male on the left:

as first i was ticked that the LFS mixed it up, but now the wrasse is getting pretty insane colors, i'm trying to Id the type of wrasse it is.. Maybe it's just a condei, but i find different from i have seen on the web

thks for any help IDing this guy!

 

[evolved]

to make a long story short, i purchased a couple of hooded fairy wrasse from vanuatu back in November, the shop at the fish for a while.

Since the past couple of weeks, maybe months, the female started to change color (changing sexe to a male), but to my surprise it's not 'morphing' into a hooded fairy wrasse.

Here's 2 video of my wrasse, we dont see all the colors.
The dorsal fin has a sail shape like, mostly black, with orange in the middle and a fine blue line on the lower part on the back.
it also has a fine blue line in the middle of his body, just where the red and white meets. lower fin is black, with an orangish line in the middle. tail has a lot of blue.
when he's flashing, he turns orange with some white area... pretty impressive




from my research on the web, i found thispicture of Cirrhilabrus marinda, my wrasse is pretty similar to the picture C (lower left).

and to this male on the left:

as first i was ****** that the LFS mixed it up, but now the wrasse is getting pretty insane colors, i'm trying to Id the type of wrasse it is.. Maybe it's just a condei, but i find different from i have seen on the web

thks for any help IDing this guy!

It's C. condei
Unfortunately, the species is rather aggressive to other fairys/flashers.

 

[david p.]

It's C. condei
Unfortunately, the species is rather aggressive to other fairys/flashers.

i thought it could be condei, but the colors he has are not what i see online, but it makes more sense, Marinda seems pretty rare. if it's a Condei.. i'll give a call to my LFS.. Condei are way cheaper than Hooded fairy wrasse.

Agressivity wise, it was fine until he start changing sex. now i would not say he's agressive, but clearly other wrasse are taking their distance. i have several wrasse in my system, and he's becoming the Alpha from the tank.

 

[david p.]

It's C. condei
Unfortunately, the species is rather aggressive to other fairys/flashers.

the thing that made me question the Marinda was the black fins (dorsal and ventral/anal). i have seen reference like black fin Condei wrasse, and they later renamed them Marinda... but i'm no expert.

 

[eatbreakfast]

The fin color is not the difference between condei and marinda, rather the difference is their habitat and displays.

 

[david p.]

The fin color is not the difference between condei and marinda, rather the difference is their habitat and displays.

you are right, but i can't tell where they comme from.

"The primary noticeable difference between Cirrhilabrus marinda and C. condei is the presence of a mostly black dorsal fin in male C. marinda which is also much taller than in typical specimens of C. condei. The apparent reason for the beginnings of this new species divergence is a difference in habitat preference with Conde’s fairy wrasse preferring inshore reef habitats while Marinda’s fairy wrasse prefers deeper and more offshore habitats.''

since i can't tell where it was collected, that's what made me think of Marinda, the black dorsal and anal fins. but not pushing for one or the other type of wrasse, just asking question to ID correctly. i think Condei is most probable and more commun than the other.

thx for inputs.

 

[OrionN]

This is a Female Eightline Flasher wrasse, Paracheilinus octotaenia, isn't she? I spend a bunch of money on her and hope I did not mis -ID her. Thanks

 

[evolved]

This is a Female Eightline Flasher wrasse, Paracheilinus octotaenia, isn't she? I spend a bunch of money on her and hope I did not mis -ID her. Thanks

Yup, it is indeed.

 

[OrionN]

Thanks