Let Me ID Your Wrasse!

[eatbreakfast]

Was sold to me as a blue sided fairy wrasse. Is this what it is?

Nope, it's. A male Cirrhilabrus lubbocki, lubbock's fairy wrasse, Bali variant.

 

[Joker79]

Nope, it's. A male Cirrhilabrus lubbocki, lubbock's fairy wrasse, Bali variant.

Wow that was quick! Thanks man!
I truly appreciate it!

 

[eatbreakfast]

Wow that was quick! Thanks man!
I truly appreciate it!

Just happened to be looking at r2r when you posted.

 

[Joker79]

Hahahaaa. Sweet! :-)

 

[evolved]

This is P. filamentosus, the filamented flasher, male.

This is a hybrid P. filamentosus x P. flavianalis, male.

I've stared a while now, and I don't see the hybridization on the last one. Both appear just filamentosus to me.
TJ, did I miss something?

 

[eatbreakfast]

I've stared a while now, and I don't see the hybridization on the last one. Both appear just filamentosus to me.
TJ, did I miss something?

No, I did, I was looking on my phone and didn't click on the pic, I only saw thered dorsal filament, so one dorsal filament and a lunate caudal, so... but when you posted I went back and enlarged the pic to see the purple ones too.

 

[Duke4Life]

Here's been my other debate

 

[eatbreakfast]

Here's been my other debate

Thats the C. cf temminckii Cebu variant that was collected in Northern Philippines and is being called katherinae in the trade.

 

[MIKE NY]

any help Iding this Cirrhilabrus species fairy wrasse..TIA

 

[Breakthecycle2]

any help Iding this Cirrhilabrus species fairy wrasse..TIA

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Pic doesn't work.

 

[twon8]

C. melanomarginatus

 

[eatbreakfast]

C. melanomarginatus

Agreed.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

any help Iding this Cirrhilabrus species fairy wrasse..TIA

Where did you get him from?

 

[MIKE NY]

LFS and was labeled a Lubbock's...
thanks guys...its looks very similar to a Scotts and probably the same temperament.

 

[eatbreakfast]

LFS and was labeled a Lubbock's...
thanks guys...its looks very similar to a Scotts and probably the same temperament.

Yes, very similar temperament.

 

[schmoore89]

Bright redish/pink with a few blue stripes.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Bright redish/pink with a few blue stripes.

Without seeing the dorsal and anal fins it is hard to pin down, but it is a flasher wrasse with a rounded caudal and a white belly, so in order of likelyhood it could be carpenter's, mckosker, or flavianalis. Lineopunctatus also has a rounded caudal, but is generally darker.

 

[mmarro99]

What is this guy?

 

[eatbreakfast]

What is this guy?

Labropsis xanthonota, it's a species of tubelip wrasse that feeds primarily on coral polyps.

 

[mmarro99]

Labropsis xanthonota, it's a species of tubelip wrasse that feeds primarily on coral polyps.

How easy or difficult is it to get it to eat prepared foods?