The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[SaltyT]

Here’s a true rubriventralis, basically if it has one filament and looks like this it’s a true Rubriventralis IME.

This photo is still a C. rubeus ... the true C. rubriventralis does not have a blue stripe extending across the ventral portion of the body.

 

[Slocke]

This photo is still a C. rubeus ... the true C. rubriventralis does not have a blue stripe extending across the ventral portion of the body.

Yep
Definitely not a real fish!

A friend with a better camera phone came over:

 

[Petcrazyson]

Yep
Definitely not a real fish!

A friend with a better camera phone came over:

 

[i cant think]

Yep
Definitely not a real fish!

A friend with a better camera phone came over:

I’ve only seen Rubriventralis once but never again. All the other ‘rubriventralis’ have been rubeus or joanallenae.

 

[OrionN]

He looks like a C. rubriventralis to me. The yellow in the dorsal fin, the near solid red anal and ventral fins. These are key differences between the Rubriventralis vs Rubeus as per the late Jake Adams in this article:
Cirrhilabrus africanus and C. rubeus are the two newest species of fairy wrasses
and
Fairy Wrasses: The rubriventralis group

 

[i cant think]

He looks like a C. rubriventralis to me. The yellow in the dorsal fin, the near solid red anal and ventral fins. These are key differences between the Rubriventralis vs Rubeus as per the late Jake Adams in this article:
Cirrhilabrus africanus and C. rubeus are the two newest species of fairy wrasses
and
Fairy Wrasses: The rubriventralis group

It’s not a true Rubriventralis as the blue lining goes all the way through the body. It could be a ‘cf. rubriventralis’. Also there’s too many filaments to be rubriventralis as rubriventralis only has the front filament.

 

[OrionN]

I think there is a numbers of wrasses in this group that are in described and does not have a name.

 

[Slocke]

The rubriventralis also has yellow on the flanks. This was a fairly recent paper that split the species into 3. I believe the cf. rubriventralis whose range was Eastern Africa was turned into africanus. The two spiked whose range is south of India as rubeus. While the Red Sea variant stayed rubriventralis.

This is clearly the Indian variant/rubeus.

 

[SaltyT]

The rubriventralis also has yellow on the flanks. This was a fairly recent paper that split the species into 3. I believe the cf. rubriventralis whose range was Eastern Africa was turned into africanus. The two spiked whose range is south of India as rubeus. While the Red Sea variant stayed rubriventralis.

This is clearly the Indian variant/rubeus.

You are 100% correct! Rubeus and Africanus were split from Rubriventralis in 2016.

Here is the research paper on it if anyone is interested:

(PDF) Two new species in the spike-fin fairy-wrasse species complex (Teleostei: Labridae: Cirrhilabrus) from the Indian Ocean

PDF | The western and central Indian Ocean population of the fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis, is here split into three allopatric species: the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

www.researchgate.net

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

I did that already, considering one now... Wanting the new copperband to pull through first.

Got some footage of the copperband... Eating garlic soaked mysis and is actively roaming the tank. I was looking for the possum wrasse I bought with it, but its doing possum wrasse like things, lol.

 

[JoJosReef]

Today moving the H. chrysus to the display! M. bipartitis is another matter. She only comes out for a minute or two then back in the sand. How do you go about transferring sand-sleepers when they just dive into the sand?

 

[homer1475]

As long as they are awake, and just dove into the sand to avoid you, by all means scoop them up right with the sand they are in. Easy peasy.

You just don't want to startle a sleeping, and/or stressed wrasse from the sandbed.

 

[Tcook]

That’s ehat i fo. Palm side down I doread my fingers then stick fown to the glass bottom and dliwly move forward. Chrysus and babi would always dive in when I tried to catch them.

 

[OrionN]

That’s ehat i fo. Palm side down I doread my fingers then stick fown to the glass bottom and dliwly move forward. Chrysus and babi would always dive in when I tried to catch them.

????
You must be on your phone.!!!!

 

[JoJosReef]

That’s ehat i fo. Palm side down I doread my fingers then stick fown to the glass bottom and dliwly move forward. Chrysus and babi would always dive in when I tried to catch them.

I want so much to get your advice. But I have no idea what you're saying. I have written calming words on my fingers for the fish to read and am sticking them palm-side down into the sand toward the glass bottom, but so far I've only kicked up a lot of sand and the fish are now swimming upside down.

 

[Crabby48]

Last night qt system started to drop ph. Got home at 7.6 and I think that’s a high reading. Why I don’t know. Fish wanted food wouldn’t eat and hiding. They looked in bad shape. DT was at the surface in a corner not moving.
Pulled them and put blue spot, LNH and Meleagris in display. Diamondtail is in a box in display and also red tail. Fingers crossed they are clean from parasites and they can handle the others. As of now poor yellow fin is getting nipped still. Earl is nasty little fellow

The last minute I have to move fish is how I lost them all last time. Fingers crossed.

 

[Crabby48]

That’s ehat i fo. Palm side down I doread my fingers then stick fown to the glass bottom and dliwly move forward. Chrysus and babi would always dive in when I tried to catch them.

How I do it. I keep a clear box so if they dive back in I push them in the box. I don’t even get sand anymore lol
Some will travel under the sand.

 

[Tcook]

I want so much to get your advice. But I have no idea what you're saying. I have written calming words on my fingers for the fish to read and am sticking them palm-side down into the sand toward the glass bottom, but so far I've only kicked up a lot of sand and the fish are now swimming upside down.

Lol. Don’t know w(t)f happened there. Basically spread your fingers and push into sand until you hit the glass then slowly move forward. Like a dirt rake.

 

[Crabby48]

Here is Meleagris. It’s out then in the sand then out then in the sand. She came out and half her face was covered in sand lol

 

[Tcook]

Crabby showing some photo skills