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10/01/2011, 04:53 AM | #1 |
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Please help me to ID this wrasse
I have had this wrasse for a few weeks now and it does really well in my mixed reef tank. It never harasses any of the other fishes and I have never seen it bother any invertebrates.
Yesterday I received a male Cirrhilabrus solorensis and the first wrasse has been chasing him around a bit. Is the first wrasse a female Cirrhilabrus solorensis? What is the normal behaviour between a male and female Cirrhilabrus solorensis, can I expect this chasing to end? Here's a picture of what I believe and hope is a female Cirrhilabrus solorensis: |
10/01/2011, 03:26 PM | #2 |
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I'm thinking it looks like a Cirrhilabrus aurantidorsalis to me.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...98&pcatid=1398 |
10/02/2011, 08:54 AM | #3 |
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Rudy head wrasse. I have one also. Red head, blue body with orange fins. It goes by many names though
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10/06/2011, 11:09 PM | #4 |
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Three different suggestions so far, anyone else?
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10/07/2011, 01:46 AM | #5 |
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Its a rubdy head wrasse. I have one in my QT right now as we speak
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Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura
http://www.toofishy.com/product.php?...cat=825&page=1 Wrasses will either sleep in sand or rock work. My exquisite was suppose to sleep in the sand but he slept in between 2 rocks instead. |
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10/07/2011, 09:51 AM | #10 |
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Lol told ya. I spend alot of time trying to figure out what I had. I forgot to check when I bought him at the fish store. I just thought he was pretty so I bought him without thinking to check what kind.
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My bet is that its a female Cirrhilabrus Sollorensis. It is not a C. cyanopleura or a C. aurantidorsalis..
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Here check this out. Poor photo but you will see that the Ruby Head is actually a Female C. solorensis
http://www.qualitymarine.com/Product...orensis-Female |
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As I mentioned the male Cirrhilabrus solorensis was being chased by the "X fish" when I introduced it to the tank, but they seem to go fine together now. Does anyone now what the normal behaviour between a male and a female Cirrhilabrus solorensis is? I assume that if I see courtship behaviour the probability of them being the same species is larger? |
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10/08/2011, 12:59 PM | #17 |
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Yup. The "Ruby Head" wrasse is really just a name for the female C. solorensis.
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10/08/2011, 02:00 PM | #18 |
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Dito..... ruby red head... aka .... female solarensis wrasse...
I also have one of these. Awesome fish, a real pig at eating, nice coloring, good community citizen. Tenacious ampod hunter. As far as getting along with the male, I do not know the 'normal' interaction behavior. I am also getting ready to add another wrasse to my tank. I had two previous males prior to the female and both found a way out to the floor through the smallest little crack in the rear screen. His name was houdini and he proved worthy of the name. |
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Thanks guys! This is really good news since I hoped to get a pair of these wrasses. The female has also stopped chasing the male altogether and they even seem to interact slightly today. My tank is 1100 L (~ 300 gallons) so I hope everything is alright for them to behave naturally.
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09/16/2012, 12:15 PM | #20 |
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Here's a new picture of my beauty:
She has developed these long fins on the underside that is displayed quite nicely in the picture above. |
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I have three of the exact fish you have Aganthos. The largest one looks like yours in coloration, and even has the long ventral fins like yours. The other two are solid pink, and are very submissive to the largest one. I also have a blue Solar wrasse in the same tank and he chases the largest of the three only, in what is definitely aggression and not a mating display. What is confusing is that in Rudie Kuiterr's book on fairy wrasses under the description for C. solorensis he does provide two pictures labeled as female solorensis (plates E and F) however they lack the blue color on the chin that runs almost the length of the ventral region of my largest (on the illustration it is white not blue/bluish.) Now, from the difference in coloration displayed by my three and the behavior I witnessed in my own tank I strongly believe that these fish if C. solorensis are not females, but possibly a color variant, and your fish and my largest fish are males.I bought mine from saltwaterfish.com and the had them labeled as C. cyanopleura So I'm not quite sure who is right as far as identification, but I do not believe what we have is a female wrasse.
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Agathos,
Such a pretty fish, but I think "she" is actually a "he".... ~Michael
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Definitely a male. Only males develop long pelvic fins.
That being said, I see a C. aurantidorsalis.
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I might as well use this same thread for another mysterious wrasse I have:
It lives in the same tank as the wrasse from earlier in this thread and a male Cirrhilabrus solorensis. It is smaller and submissive to both of them. |
01/14/2013, 10:18 AM | #25 |
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Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura
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