The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[jabberwock]

My humble contribution to this thread.

 

[i cant think]

My overdue nano wrasses! Annoyingly my female pink streak wouldn’t play for the camera and the male was being difficult, but the Choat’s? That fish was posing!

 

[N11morales]

Hello I was wondering if I could keep 4 different halichoeres in my tank?
Dimensions: 72.3x29.5x25.6

Currently I have these wrasses:
Halichoeres biocellatus
Exquisite wrasse. Cleaner wrasse, and mccosker flasher wrasse

Want to add:
Halichoeres cosmetus
Halichoeres leucoxanthus
halichoeres trispilus

Thanks for any input.

 

[i cant think]

You guys remember the male iridis I used to have and then managed to source a female for? Well, if you don’t here’s a picture of that brute :)

And the female I picked up in August/September 2023

Well…. I have a bit of an update on that female

Can you figure it out? It’s happened within the last 2-3 weeks and as I only noticed it on Wednesday!

 

[OrionN]

You guys remember the male iridis I used to have and then managed to source a female for? Well, if you don’t here’s a picture of that brute :)

And the female I picked up in August/September 2023

Well…. I have a bit of an update on that female

Can you figure it out? It’s happened within the last 2-3 weeks and as I only noticed it on Wednesday!

Do they fight much?

 

[Tcook]

Hard to tell. Is that fin rot?

 

[BasementBox]

Got 3 yellow Coris wrasse in last two weeks. All juvies in my 125. They’re always together. It’s really memorizing how much more relaxed they appeared having 3 (started with 1). They do appear to be hareming which is cool too!

 

[OrionN]

Hard to tell. Is that fin rot?

That is not a sick Iridis. It is not a great picture of an early male. @i cant think has a male in the tank already so he will have 2 males in there.

 

[Tcook]

That is not a sick Iridis. It is not a great picture of an early male. @i cant think has a male in the tank already so he will have 2 males in there.

Not sure what he was trying to show. Maybe the fins are just clamped down in the pic? Is the concern the lighter color change on the posterior half of the body or loss of dots?

 

[OrionN]

The female coloration is a lot more define and the burgundy's color is darker. There are a lot more colors in the male body and fins but they are pastel, pink, green, yellow and blue. However these are pastel in shade and does not necessary show up well in pictures.

 

[i cant think]

Do they fight much?

I unfortunately lost the original male a while back, planning to re-pair this guy at some point soon. When they initially were together they almost instantly went into courtship.

 

[i cant think]

Not sure what he was trying to show. Maybe the fins are just clamped down in the pic? Is the concern the lighter color change on the posterior half of the body or loss of dots?

It was a rather bad photo of my now male iridis, No idea when the transition even begun! But I check today and I have a full male iridis.

 

[OrionN]

It was a rather bad photo of my now male iridis, No idea when the transition even begun! But I check today and I have a full male iridis.

I guess you are going to look for a female now. They are beautiful fish, but really hard to take good pictures of.

 

[i cant think]

I guess you are going to look for a female now. They are beautiful fish, but really hard to take good pictures of.

I think I’ve taken a good 500 photos of my iridis and out of them maybe 10 have actually been good, the colouring on them is difficult to pull out in photos.

 

[OrionN]

Not the best, nor do justice for this fish.

 

[Slocke]

Pull this dusty one out

 

[jabberwock]

I think I’ve taken a good 500 photos of my iridis and out of them maybe 10 have actually been good, the colouring on them is difficult to pull out in photos.

Try shooting video and then cropping out a picture from a good pose.

 

[OrionN]

Try shooting video and then cropping out a picture from a good pose.

Not high enough resolution
I lost count of how many pictures. Sometime I spend all day and come up empty.

 

[i cant think]

Pull this dusty one out

Have we started a thing? Iridis Saturday?

 

[i cant think]

Just a dozen of hungry wrasse!