Show off your wrasse

[supmar85]

My favorite wrasse

 

[gflat65]

I lost my male M. bipartitus this weekend... I'd had him since 2/11/09 and he was eating, so it kinda of came as a surprise. I may be on the hunt for a trio of Potter's leopards or bipartitus...

 

[icedgxe]

A couple of new pics of my mystery

 

[plainrt]

My christmas wrasse

 

[gflat65]

Picked up a beautiful male M. ornatus. No pics yet (got him in the tank around 1:30 last night and didn't want to hit him with flash after the drive down from Memphis). He's not come out yet, but I'll be watching for him.

 

[Jason edwards]

My McCosker's

YouTube - McCosker's Flasher wrasse showing off

 

[Rickyrooz]

My McCosker's

YouTube - McCosker's Flasher wrasse showing off

That's a Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse. In the video I see three filaments that pop up, the McCosker has one.

Carpenter's

McCosker's

 

[NotTheFace]

All these pages of wrasses and no Cryptic Six Lines I wanted a peaceful fish so I went with this one. It's hard to get a pic of it this is the best I could do.

 

[detguy123]

cool cryptic i don't see pics of those too often....and yes that vid is of a carpenter's

 

[Jason edwards]

I agree with you guys to a point. Apparently the fish that where sold to me as McCoskers are not....but looking at a bunch of pictures it just doesnt match a carpenters really either. Its pretty close but some of the colors just dont match and his seem alot bolder than those in pics. Hybrid maybe? I know they are notorious for it. hes flashing like crazy as I type

 

[detguy123]

do you have a good still picture of it i could tell you if it is a hybrid or a carpenters but the video clearly shows to me that it is a carpenters the black cadual fin (tail fin) and red anal fin and and two filaments tell me it is a carpenters....mccoskers and carpenters and yellow fins get mixed up and mislabled quite often

 

[Sikryd]

I agree with you guys to a point. Apparently the fish that where sold to me as McCoskers are not....but looking at a bunch of pictures it just doesnt match a carpenters really either. Its pretty close but some of the colors just dont match and his seem alot bolder than those in pics. Hybrid maybe? I know they are notorious for it. hes flashing like crazy as I type

Wrasses are slightly different in color/pattern, depending on where they come from.
Fijian, Australian, ect. they all are a little different.

 

[Jason edwards]

either way Im happy with him. Thanks for the heads up guys. I will refere to him as a carpenters for now on. Im still working on the still photo. Hes usually zooming around while hes flashing and every pic turns out blurry.

 

[detguy123]

Wrasses are slightly different in color/pattern, depending on where they come from.
Fijian, Australian, ect. they all are a little different.

that is true but it is very easy to tell mccoskers apart from the others..and there is very little change in mccoskers some in the red on the dorsal and anal fin but not much..and a mccoskers will always have 1 filament and a red anal fin....the yellow fin flasher can have one to 4 filaments but will have a yellow anal fin and its filaments are red and carpenters has 2-4 filaments and has a red anal fin

 

[Rickyrooz]

My Male Eightline Flasher Wrasse (Paracheilinus octotaenia)

 

[SaraB]

Wow, awesome Eightline Flasher Wrasse!!!

 

[Sikryd]

^^

No doubt, he's a tank too!

 

[Rickyrooz]

Thanks, I have a video of him flashing.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7552q8-ji0[/youtube]

 

[gflat65]

Beautiful eight line flasher.

 

[addicted4life]

Those are some awesome looking Wrasses everyone.

I have a few in my 180G

My Leopard

Mystery

Super Male Hawaiian Flame

Tamarin

Oh yeah I'm a wrasse man !!