Let Me ID Your Wrasse!

[OrionN]

It never occurred to me to post a picture of him when he is not flashing, for ID purposes.
Here is a non flashing picture of him. Can anybody help in narrow down the region where he is from?

 

[eatbreakfast]

It never occurred to me to post a picture of him when he is not flashing, for ID purposes.
Here is a non flashing picture of him. Can anybody help in narrow down the region where he is from?

Looks like an Indonesian specimen to me...

 

[Abhishek]

Looks like an Indonesian specimen to me...

Exquisitus complex cannot get any more complex . But I agree with TJ @eatbreakfast - looks like Indonesian . I would expect it to get a deeper yellow dorsum in terminal phase .

Regards,
Abhishek

 

[Orly20]

Please ID this cool looking Wrasse

 

[HairyGary]

Please ID this cool looking Wrasse

I’ll let others chime in but I think that is Comet wrasse.

 

[evolved]

Please ID this cool looking Wrasse

Labropsis xanthonota
An obligate corallivore once mature.

 

[Abhishek]

As @evolved said , I don’t know if anyone who has kept it long term as it feeds on stony coral polyps in nature .
Not to disappoint you but it’s not an easy species by any means to maintain

 

[Leadfooted]

Hey Evolved are you aware of any Wrasse that nips , picks or even eats vermetid snails?

 

[mredwin25]

how about this guy

 

[HairyGary]

how about this guy

Hard to tell exactly from photo but maybe Anampses melanurus

 

[mredwin25]

Hard to tell exactly from photo but maybe Anampses melanurus

 

[eatbreakfast]

Juvenile Pseudodax moloccanus.

 

[HairyGary]

Juvenile Pseudodax moloccanus.

Well....I tried but knew I was wrong after the second photo!

 

[MIKE NY]

Yup....Chiseltooth another wrasse that looks nothing like its adult coloration.

 

[mredwin25]

Yup....Chiseltooth another wrasse that looks nothing like its adult coloration.

that sucks, I like his colors now

 

[Ryan Wright]

Camera shy so best i can get, other side is more dashed lines, store had no clue either but i liked coloring and interaction with its tank mates.

 

[ascheff]

Camera shy so best i can get, other side is more dashed lines, store had no clue either but i liked coloring and interaction with its tank mates.

Cirrhilabrus lubbocki. From Cebu

 

[rkpetersen]

Not a question but thought I might point out this beauty.
A flasher with markings more like a fairy.

https://www.liveaquaria.com/divers-den/product/465353/half-banded-flasher-wrasse-terminal-phase-male

 

[evolved]

Not a question but thought I might point out this beauty.
A flasher with marking more like a fairy.

https://www.liveaquaria.com/divers-den/product/465353/half-banded-flasher-wrasse-terminal-phase-male

Not by coincidence, but when it was first documented, it was thought to be a Cirrhilabrus. It wasn't until later it was corrected to Paracheilinus.

 

[HairyGary]

Not a question but thought I might point out this beauty.
A flasher with markings more like a fairy.

https://www.liveaquaria.com/divers-den/product/465353/half-banded-flasher-wrasse-terminal-phase-male

Very nice specimen but wow on the price! Begs the question how old is it and how much longer will it survive.