new cleaner wrasse id

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just picked up a cleaner wrasse but forgot where it was from its not a hawaiian its black with a single blue stripe and red on the top and bottom fins.. forgot what island its from but its something with a b

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Dottyback sounds about right. Pseudochromis springeri maybe?
 
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thanks for the responses,pretty sure its not a dottyback and not from batlic islands, this is really bugging me gonna have to call my lfs tmrw and find out for sure
 
ok so all i was able to find out from my friend that works at the lfs where i bought it was its a cleaner wrasse from cebu which seems to be a island in the Philippines
 
I think I picked up that same wrasse 2 weeks ago. Definitely dives into sand when scared. I also read they form a bubble around themselves under the sand. Dunno but it's sweet. The LFS called it a purple cleaner wrasse. My friend who spotted it thought it was black also.
 
It's a juvenile Chiseltooth Wrasse - Pseudodax moluccanus

They get rather large, around a foot long. But they are great reef fish otherwise.

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