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I’m a sucker for the expressive little eyes on these fish. Rhomboid knows if it protests the food I give and stares at me long enough, I’ll eventually bring the R.O.E. for extra lunch.

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That is one great looking fish.
 

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Stopped by a not so local fish shop on my way home from University of Michigan Children's hospital with my little one today (nothing major, just got a new hip brace). Found a wrasse that had to come home, hoping it gets along with the red breasted (Cheilinus fasciatus) when it's done in quarantine. Cheilinus chlorosus, the Floral Wrasse! Also picked up a couple lobsters for a different tank, some of my favorite reef critters lol.

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Stopped by a not so local fish shop on my way home from University of Michigan Children's hospital with my little one today (nothing major, just got a new hip brace). Found a wrasse that had to come home, hoping it gets along with the red breasted (Cheilinus fasciatus) when it's done in quarantine. Cheilinus chlorosus, the Floral Wrasse! Also picked up a couple lobsters for a different tank, some of my favorite reef critters lol.

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Are those fangs on that wrasse?
 

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Been a bit MIA recently as everything’s just hit me like a bus over the last week so it’s been a lot of figuring everything out.
But here’s some pencil wrasse appreciation!
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Thoughts on Coris flavovittata? LFS also had a Viviennes but unfortunately struggling. Neither are for sale yet.
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Those are in the for sale tank? Must be fun to catch them. Get the vivien. Mine came in the upper 50s lower 60s and survived fine. Just a nice sand nap needed.
 

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Those are in the for sale tank? Must be fun to catch them. Get the vivien. Mine came in the upper 50s lower 60s and survived fine. Just a nice sand nap needed.
Nah. You have to pay extra for one of their DT fish but not much more. I’d love the Vivienne but I’ve got an unknown assassin in my tank and I think only tough fish will work. My guess is the Timor or the cleaner wrasse.
 

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Thoughts on Coris flavovittata? LFS also had a Viviennes but unfortunately struggling. Neither are for sale yet.
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The Vivian’s looks to be a female kuiteri by the way :)

Vivian’s has half a red body but Kuiter’s has an overall pink body.
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Splendid pencil wrasse sighting today! Hanging in the back and even made eye contact a few times without trying to jump. He's back in the sand now. Looking thinner. At least I had him good and fat before he went nuts in the observation tank.
 

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Thoughts on Coris flavovittata? LFS also had a Viviennes but unfortunately struggling. Neither are for sale yet.
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Man, i really wish Coris species other than gaimard and aygula were available in Australia. Especially when we have some stunning natives like Coris picta
 

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Late for my Wrasse Wednesday tax. Good news is that the pencil wrasse is out occasionally and not TOTALLY freaking out!

Don't blink of you'll miss him:
 

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Are Anapses lennardi cleaners? I witnessed some interesting behaviour yesterday between my 18-20cm ribbon sweetlip and my 7cm ish lennardi. The sweetlip swam up to the lennardi, which was busy picking at my liverock and hovered next to it with it's mouth gaping (the sweetlip can narrowly fit the lennardi in it's mouth) and for a few seconds the lennardi seemed like it was going to swim inside like a cleaner wrasse would.
Even if they're not cleaners, the sweetlip certainly thought it was. Maybe that could explain their bright colouration?
 

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Are Anapses lennardi cleaners? I witnessed some interesting behaviour yesterday between my 18-20cm ribbon sweetlip and my 7cm ish lennardi. The sweetlip swam up to the lennardi, which was busy picking at my liverock and hovered next to it with it's mouth gaping (the sweetlip can narrowly fit the lennardi in it's mouth) and for a few seconds the lennardi seemed like it was going to swim inside like a cleaner wrasse would.
Even if they're not cleaners, the sweetlip certainly thought it was. Maybe that could explain their bright colouration?
I wouldn’t be surprised. A few genera of wrasse clean other fish. Hogfish(Bodianus) does it too for example
 

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