Fairy wrasse Photo Library - Page 3

achillesheel · #51 08/05/2006, 03:36 PM

i hope not. thats a great resource for the rrare fish collector. plus he's a great guy to talk to.

zemuron114 · #52 08/05/2006, 07:18 PM

I also think he shut down until further notice. He's trying to find new species i think in the marshalls or the like.
There are more rare fish sellers, you just have to look.. lol

adding the leopards and fairies at the same time wont matter. I say add leopards first because they are more fragile then the fairies and i would let them settle in before adding a fairy

Rothie · #53 08/05/2006, 08:01 PM

All Brian had to do was make a notation on his webpage.

The Beaut · #54 08/07/2006, 12:01 PM

The Balteatus is absolutley amazing, all the colors.

Bronco this thread is still going strong, good job.

zemuron114 · #55 08/07/2006, 02:46 PM

nice one!
My LFS has a 400 gallon with a bunch of fairies in it, and he just added a balteatus to the mix. It went from havin no orange at all (the bar) but when he added it, it went nuts and started displaying for 10-15 min 4 or 5 times a day. Everytime he displayed the ornage started getting brighter and more noticeable. It is so fascinating to watch. He bullies everyone but the female clown and large lineatus male (who is about 2" bigger, lol) My next fairy wrasse will be this one!

Teremei · #56 08/08/2006, 06:59 PM

I just bought my first wrasse!!

A redfin wrasse. If I were to get a reddish wrasse I wish I would have gotten the longfin. But he's growing on me. He's an orangish pink and very cute! The blue tang taught him to eat my seaweed.

Philwd · #57 08/08/2006, 11:59 PM

My LFS has a pair of debelius on hold for me. They were shipped together so they think they were collected together. Anyone know how big they might get? They look to be ~ 2.5". Kuiter says just under 3" but he also says labouti will stay ~ 3" and mine is at least 4.5". Also will they be real spooked in a tank with wrasses twice their size?

They also have a carpenters, bellae and lineopunctatus flasher in now for about the same price. Any thoughts on these? Any potential conflicts with the debelius?

dantheman_151 · #58 08/09/2006, 06:12 AM

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/s...ighlight=fairy

Could anyone please ID mine please ?

Sorry, I dont know how to add pics so I had to just use a link. Think its a Randalls fairy, which in the new reefkeeping mag is said to be rare and expensive?
Dont know about rare but I've never seen one before but it was only £30 so I snapped it up

Cheers
Dan

Terryz_ · #59 08/09/2006, 06:41 AM

Thats a scott fairy wrasse...

H.Tanaka · #60 08/09/2006, 07:51 AM

Philwd,
An adornatus, male, 7cm that I recently got (photo). This species grows to more than 10cm, I hear but I have never seen such a large- sized one. One of my friends in Thailand informed me that he has seen. C. laboutei will reach at least 12 cm.

dantheman,
Yes, it is C. scottorum, as written by Terryz.

Philwd · #61 08/09/2006, 08:48 AM

Thanks Hiroyuki. The LFS also got in another debelius that only has one red spot near the pec fin but not the extended red like in your pic and on the one they're holding for me. The LFS was thinking one was a supermale and one was a sub male?

H.Tanaka · #62 08/09/2006, 09:06 AM

I will wait for your pics here.

heuerfan · #63 08/09/2006, 11:07 AM

Anyone have pictures of a Female Blue Margin wrasse (Pylei)?

A local reefer is breaking down his tank and apparently has one forsale. I am waiting to get a picture of his fish but was curious to see if anyone can provide me one also for comparison.

Thanks,
Steven

zemuron114 · #64 08/09/2006, 01:39 PM

they look similar to pink margin females (dull..

) i like the pyle's better though.

bronco7777 · #65 08/09/2006, 02:05 PM

Here you go heuerfan, Male and female. Female is on top and she is always all pink with a orange eye and a yellowish tail.

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bronco7777 · #66 08/09/2006, 02:06 PM

Hiroyuki,

How have you been? Good to see you participating on this thread regularly

heuerfan · #67 08/09/2006, 02:38 PM

Thank you very much Bronco7777, i will use this as my reference. Good to see you back, post some more pics

-Steven

H.Tanaka · #68 08/09/2006, 07:09 PM

Bronco,

Thanks for your coming back ! I miss you for a while...

Here is a shot of pylei from Vanuatu, females and a male. I could not take a photo of male-female pair in the aquarium. Note the black spot near the tail in female forms; it is missing in some females (on the top right & bottom left specimens).

bronco7777 · #69 08/09/2006, 08:31 PM

Hiroyuki,

Yeah, it's good to get back here. Work has just been brutal this year. I shoot you an email soon so we can catch up some more.

heuerfan · #70 08/09/2006, 09:24 PM

Thanks Tanaka for the pics. Here is the actual fish i will be getting. Not a clear shot but looks like a female, pink body, yellow tail.

Do you thiink it would be okay if the female Pylei is a bit larger than my male Pylei? The owner tells me the female is under 3" but just in case it is not.

Thanks,
Steven

clkwrk · #71 08/09/2006, 11:56 PM

Lubbucks

H.Tanaka · #72 08/10/2006, 12:06 AM

heurfan,

It is possible that females will be larger than males in the same spp., but I have never heard concerning pylei. Females of C. cyanopleura, C. solorensis and C. marjorie are often larger than their mates. Please post photos someday.

bronco7777 · #73 08/10/2006, 07:40 AM

heuerfan,

Do you have pictures of the male? Is it a juvenile?

The female can be larger than the male but typically that is not the case unless the male is a much younger specimen like a juvenile. They still should get along.

One thing to watch out for is that in fairy wrasses, many other species of fairy have females that look like this. Also in other fairy species, when the fish is very young, it has a pink body with a black dot at the start of the tail.

Just want to make sure you do have a true pylei. Your picture is a liittle off but it appears to be a female pylei

heuerfan · #74 08/10/2006, 08:04 AM

Hey Bronco, here is a picture of my male pylei, per Tanaka it is a variation from Sulawesi.

I'm going to get the female tomorrow night and will post better pics of her.

Would it be possible to keep two different variations of the Pylei? I also really like how the Vanuatu variation looks as well and thought it would be cool to have them both in the same tank. I'm thinking it would not work but have to ask

Thanks,
Steven

bronco7777 · #75 08/10/2006, 01:00 PM

Heuerfan,

Are the two different variations males? or are you just saying that the female is one variation and the male is another? Or do you already own one male variant and are looking to add this different variant?
Sorry, I may have missed some points you may have brought up before but I'm getting in late on this subject.

I don't think you'll have a problem mixing variants. I've done it before with other fairy wrasses. I still suggest the specimen cup technique to help the transition