Wrasses aplenty

[Duke4Life]

About 0.2%

Photo by: Lemon TYK

Any sure fire way to distinguish between the 2?

 

[evolved]

What two?

 

[guidedbyechoes]

Safely, no. There's a chance, but the odds are against you I'm afriad.

I was wondering because live aquaria doesn't seem to sell "females" of the solars any longer.

 

[evolved]

I may have indirectly had a hand in that :P

 

[guidedbyechoes]

I may have indirectly had a hand in that :p

You ruined it for every one that wanted to buy the cyan for 20-30 dollars cheaper ;p

 

[Duke4Life]

What two?

That last picture you posted that had .2% on it looks dead up like a Cyanopleura? Was curious as to the give away besides it coming from another very good site.

 

[evolved]

That last picture you posted that had .2% on it looks dead up like a Cyanopleura?

That's what a female solorensis truly looks like.

Was curious as to the give away besides it coming from another very good site.

Good author I'd argue, but I digress...

There's been a lot of confusion amongst the whole cyanopleura complex in the past; who's who and what's what. Before Lemon put that article out, there was a lengthy Facebook conversation amongst Lemon, TJ, myself, and a few others. I feel pretty confident what's laid out in his article is correct.

 

[guidedbyechoes]

the fm solar is much lighter and lacks the orange the cf has. They also have different head shapes if you look at them side by side. The Cf is more rounded.

 

[guidedbyechoes]

Would a powder blue tang work with this setup?

 

[evolved]

What's this "tang" thing you speak of?

 

[guidedbyechoes]

What's this "tang" thing you speak of?

Its sort of like a wrasse but it's shaped more like an uppity saucer. Heard some of them are kind of feisty :)