Let Me ID Your Wrasse!

[feh]

Keep your eyes off my wrasse. :tongue:

 

[eatbreakfast]

Hint: Alex, you're wrong. :p

The yellow below the eye is important.

It is, but now for my hint, but not as important as where the yellow and blue stripes that run horizontally begin and end.

Rodger that.

Pseudojuloides xanthomos

With my hint try again, regionally kind of close but not the same locale.

 

[Aquaph8]

P. severnsi?

 

[eatbreakfast]

P. severnsi?

Sorry, not severnsi.

 

[Marshall O]

P. argyreogaster

 

[Aquaph8]

I'm not too knowledgable on pencil wrasses, how do they mix with F and F's?

 

[eatbreakfast]

P. argyreogaster

No, but georephically in the right place. I am hoping to find some P. argyreogaster in the hobby, they are a very common, easy to catch, shallow water fish in the wild.

I'm not too knowledgable on pencil wrasses, how do they mix with F and F's?

Pseudojuloides are some of the most docile fish you can keep. Absolutely no observable aggression between the same Genus or the same species, whether male or female. The issues with them are they are terrible shippers, but if they have been at an LFS for 2 weeks you should be golden. The other issue is when males are kept with Halichoeres wrasses they are so timid they transition back to female.

 

[Marshall O]

Ok, last try. P. kaleidos.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Ok, last try. P. kaleidos.

Not kaleidos, I will give it a couple more hours, there is still time to get it!

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Of course,

I do this when there hasnt been enough activity on this thread. I get bored and its annoying when the angel lovers thread and even the qt thread have more activity than this.

Hey! Don't be hatin' on my Angel thread! LOL

 

[eatbreakfast]

Hey! Don't be hatin' on my Angel thread! LOL

No hate, its just angels arent wrasses.Angels cant help it thy are just not as cool

 

[Aquaph8]

Last guess,

P. edwardi?

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

H. Malanurus :D

 

[eatbreakfast]

Last guess,

P. edwardi?

Another good guess, and it comes from the same collecting station, but not edwardi.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

P. McCoskeri

 

[eatbreakfast]

:lol::lol::lol:

H. Malanurus :D

P. McCoskeri

Not quite, but you know that already.

 

[Greenstreet.1]

How can I tell if my Scott's is a male or female I'm thinking of getting a next one

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=152097&d=1401379113

 

[Greenstreet.1]

P. Erythrops.

 

[eatbreakfast]

P. Erythrops.

No , not erythrops.It actually was at least partly a trick question, sorry about that, but it is Pseudojuloides sp 1. Not officially described, but recognized as a unique species within the cerasinus complex

Notice where the horizontal striping begins, well after the pectoral fins.



Now in the true cerasinus from Hawaii, the horizontal striping begins directly after the gill cover, the facial striping is only one stripe, and the colors are brighter.



The Indo cerasinus is nearly identical to the Hawaiian, except he has 2 stripes in the face.



In xanthomos the coloring is very similar to sp 1, but the horizontal striping ends soon after the pectorals, which is where sp 1 striping begins.



And kaleidos has darker coloring above the striping, with a purple stripe along the base of the dorsal, and the striping runs the length of the body like cerasinus.



The other guesses are in the severnsi complex, except for argyreogaster, which as of now is in its own complex.

 

[ingtar_shinowa]

No , not erythrops.It actually was at least partly a trick question, sorry about that, but it is Pseudojuloides sp 1. Not officially described, but recognized as a unique species within the cerasinus complex

You are the worst lol. Thanks for the activity though I've been interested in pencil wrasse for a while and learned alot!