The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[SaltyT]

Ha just ordered two more wrasse from Reef exclusive.
Anyone want to guess what?
@SaltyT I DID IT! Come join me and let’s get one in your tank! Kuiters friends didn’t work so we could be ********* friends!

Ordered!

 

[Lps_lover12]

Very well could be. My exquisite flares up and chases my rhomboid, but rhomboid can hold her own alright. He will chase the pintail too, but never biting or anything.

In my experience, pintails are shy and don’t like it when other fish are roid raging around.

I wonder if your exquisite might just be acting rambunctious and scaring the pintail but not injuring them. You should try to catch him. Maybe a little timeout would let the pintail feel safer.

My pintail is the most shy by far, I’ve never seen any biting so it probably is just acting tough. I didn’t see the pintail last night, hoping he reappears again soon

 

[Crabby48]

Anyone looking for a terminal male magma? Got someone with one
Yes it’s colors match him being terminal male

 

[SaltyT]

Anyone looking for a terminal male magma? Got someone with one
Yes it’s colors match him being terminal male

You're not interested in a magma?

 

[i cant think]

The fish, the myth, the legend… still not sure of it really existing.

Although this looks promising @SaltyT any ideas if this is a true rubri?

 

[Slocke]

The fish, the myth, the legend… still not sure of it really existing.

Although this looks promising @SaltyT any ideas if this is a true rubri?

The top is definitely rubeus but the bottom I’m fairly sure is rubriventralis. The ones from the Red Sea were the ones left as rubriventralis.

 

[i cant think]

The top is definitely rubeus but the bottom I’m fairly sure is rubriventralis. The ones from the Red Sea were the ones left as rubriventralis.

Maybe we will have found a true Rubriventralis then?

That top one I saw and definitely didn’t think was a rubriventralis as there was too much blue.

 

[Crabby48]

You're not interested in a magma?

Meh. I don’t think so. Definitely not a mustier male

 

[i cant think]

Currently have a missing naoko unfortunately but here’s a photo of my Finifenmaa

 

[SaltyT]

The fish, the myth, the legend… still not sure of it really existing.

Although this looks promising @SaltyT any ideas if this is a true rubri?

To me this one still looks like rubeus even though it's labeled as being a Red Sea specimen. When you look at the recent published photos of rubriventralis they don't match this one.

 

[i cant think]

To me this one still looks like rubeus even though it's labeled as being a Red Sea specimen. When you look at the recent published photos of rubriventralis they don't match this one.

I didn’t know they’ve got some recent photos of rubriventralis

 

[SaltyT]

I didn’t know they’ve got some recent photos of rubriventralis

Field photos of rubriventralis in the Red Sea were published in 2016 when they split rubeus and africanus off. It would be nice if someone published an updated wrasse book in the near future.

 

[i cant think]

Field photos of rubriventralis in the Red Sea were published in 2016 when they split rubeus and africanus off. It would be nice if someone published an updated wrasse book in the near future.

Definitely, I’d love to see some of these newer wrasses actually labelled as their scientific name (I’ve been tempted to rename some of the ‘Cirrhilabrus sp.’ to what they are now in my books).

 

[jkcoral]

Exquisite gets the most wound up out of all of the wrasses when it comes to seeing his reflection.

If I have the mirror up for 20 minutes, he will spend hours sporadically flaring up and zooming around. Meanwhile, the pintail and rhomboid kind of look at themselves curiously in the mirror.

 

[JoJosReef]

Exquisite gets the most wound up out of all of the wrasses when it comes to seeing his reflection.

If I have the mirror up for 20 minutes, he will spend hours sporadically flaring up and zooming around. Meanwhile, the pintail and rhomboid kind of look at themselves curiously in the mirror.

Maybe the pintail and the rhomboid are closer in intellect to the Labroides from the self-awareness experiment and are looking at themselves like "Do I always look this good?" Meanwhile, exquisitus sending off the alarms "Another colorful wrasse is invading!"

 

[Crabby48]

Exquisite gets the most wound up out of all of the wrasses when it comes to seeing his reflection.

If I have the mirror up for 20 minutes, he will spend hours sporadically flaring up and zooming around. Meanwhile, the pintail and rhomboid kind of look at themselves curiously in the mirror.

Is exquisite transitioning? Mine will go nuts over their reflection when transitioning. They get pushy to others or the weak ones only get pushy to their reflection. Like the small guy with big arms in the mirror

 

[jkcoral]

Maybe the pintail and the rhomboid are closer in intellect to the Labroides from the self-awareness experiment and are looking at themselves like "Do I always look this good?" Meanwhile, exquisitus sending off the alarms "Another colorful wrasse is invading!"

Agreed. The pintail and rhomboid both have a much more “sentient” gaze when looking at their reflection. The exquisite has a much more primitive “oi! U wot m8!” response and gets even more belligerent than the tang or coral beauty haha.

Is exquisite transitioning? Mine will go nuts over their reflection when transitioning. They get pushy to others or the weak ones only get pushy to their reflection. Like the small guy with big arms in the mirror

I think he’s pretty much fully developed. By far the biggest of the wrasses, sitting at about 4 inches and built like a tuna. Eats and looks like a pig!

My rhomboid has been transitioning, and I kinda expected to see her get more wound up because of it, but instead just stares curiously.

And one side of the mirror is 10x magnification. The tang and coral beauty get violent, but will go away once they see one 10x bigger than themselves. The exquisite doesn’t care at all and still tries to throw down with the giant reflection haha!

 

[Angelbethany]

Wrasse photo tax… gotta get better at the photos

 

[i cant think]

Wrasse photo tax… gotta get better at the photos

that’s a stunning marisrubri

 

[jkcoral]

Peeking out of the rocks to quickly say good morning.