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Reefdiver72
08/22/2007, 04:04 PM
http://http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/9704/wrassemycoolth0.th.jpg (http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wrassemycoolth0.jpg)


thanks I havent been able to find any like it to figure it out. :D

avp
08/22/2007, 08:38 PM
looks like a juvenile Puddingwife (Halichoeres radiatus). It gets big, eats molluscs and crustaceans, but looks good as an adult.

All that being said, I wouldn't put one in my reef tank, but to each their own.

-avp

blface
08/24/2007, 10:00 AM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10613763#post10613763 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by avp
looks like a juvenile Puddingwife (Halichoeres radiatus). It gets big, eats molluscs and crustaceans, but looks good as an adult.

All that being said, I wouldn't put one in my reef tank, but to each their own.

-avp

I agree.

mst3kguy07
08/24/2007, 04:01 PM
I agree with avp

Reefdiver72
08/24/2007, 06:59 PM
thanks they sold it as a coris wrasse and I hadnt been able to find anything like it I wondered about it and corals I now know why all my peppermints are gone do you think he would eat them hes in a tank I dont keep much in just a pair of tomato clowns and alot of aptasia.

avp
08/24/2007, 07:08 PM
yeah, he's going eat all your shrimp..
...and crabs..
...and snails..

but he will leave your aptasia alone.

-avp