View Full Version : Fairy Wrasse Id help
prodman
12/23/2010, 10:04 PM
I bought this as a pink margin but would like a confirmation
not my picture but its the fish. Thanks
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg2/pdr79/pinkmargin.jpg
LemonLemon
12/24/2010, 10:42 AM
it looks like a female pylei wrasse to me.
the very faint markings on the face looks like a pylei.
it could be a pink margin female too but i'm leaning more towards a pylei. female pink margins do not have the scrawled markings on the face and have a larger tail spot. the spot is absent in larger females.
small juveniles and small female pylei's fairy will have a tiny spot on the caudal penducle like the one posted above. but the spot dissapears with size.
LemonLemon
12/24/2010, 10:42 AM
double post.
prodman
12/24/2010, 11:02 AM
the spot was what was throwing me. I had thought pylei too but had hoped it was the pink margin.
mscarpena
12/24/2010, 11:28 AM
I agree Pylei wrasse.
d-man
12/24/2010, 02:08 PM
i have a male pylei that was sold to me as a sunset wrasse $40. I knew it was just a stressed pylei who was faint in color but eating. He has turned out nice so far. I think yours is the female as well.
prodman
12/25/2010, 08:33 AM
I paid $30 for mine its doing great and I like it, I just thought it was something else.
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