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Showing off my wrasse.....

post #1 of 13
1/24/11 at 7:40pm
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Too late for the wrasse contest, but I thought I'd show the pic anyway.  Took me FOREVER to get a decent shot of this guy....he's in constant motion, never the same spot twice.

 

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post #2 of 13
1/24/11 at 7:48pm
Nice fish!
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post #3 of 13
1/24/11 at 7:50pm

WOW that is great.....I may still get 3 for the big tank......sigh.....I just don't know....I'd hate to rock the boat

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post #4 of 13
1/24/11 at 7:52pm
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Thanks.  Here's the only other shot I managed to get of him that I liked.  This one has a better background, unfortunately the wrasse wasn't completely in focus.

 

fall2010 033a.jpg

 

I need to tape a mirror up against the glass to see if he'll "flash" more often.  They're so radiant when they're displaying like that!

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post #5 of 13
1/24/11 at 7:54pm
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Originally Posted by meowzer View Post

WOW that is great.....I may still get 3 for the big tank......sigh.....I just don't know....I'd hate to rock the boat



If you do, special order them and get 1 male and two females.  You'll have the male putting on a show all the live long day.

 

I've heard of large tank owners successfully keeping two males in the same tank as long as they're slightly different species; i.e., a McCoscker's and a Carpenters, that sort of thing.  Personally I like the idea of a same-species harem more....

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post #6 of 13
1/24/11 at 8:00pm

HMMMM....I was thinking 3 females cause 1 would turn male....NO???

 

I sent you an e-mail BTW

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post #7 of 13
1/24/11 at 8:15pm
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Originally Posted by meowzer View Post

HMMMM....I was thinking 3 females cause 1 would turn male....NO???

 

I sent you an e-mail BTW


Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to AOL I go....!

 

I honestly don't know if wrasses do that.  I know Anthias species do, but really not sure about the flasher wrasses.  Some investigative googling might be in order here...

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post #8 of 13
1/24/11 at 8:30pm

Great fish!

 

 

I'm also considering a harem of flasher wrasses and from what I have read and been told, wrasses do not change gender.....

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post #9 of 13
1/24/11 at 8:38pm

HMMMMM....I guess when Iwas looking at the anthias and Wrasse that just stuck in my head...LOL....I just re-read the filament wrasse page, and IT DOES NOT say anything about changing sex

 

thanks LOL....I feel so sillylaughing.gif

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post #10 of 13
1/25/11 at 12:18pm

Pretty wrasse! Our six-line is always swimming up to us at the glass but the second we raise a camera to him he takes off.

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post #11 of 13
1/25/11 at 12:40pm

my sixline moves around so much i had a heck of a time getting a picture of him to enter in the contest. and then nobody even voted for me crybaby.gifsaddy.gif

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post #12 of 13
1/25/11 at 1:05pm

Aw! I'm painfully new to this forum or else I'd have voted for a sixline. I love them, sooo much personality.

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post #13 of 13
1/25/11 at 1:33pm

lol, problem is the best pic IMO is also of a sixline, as were most of the others.

LOL, I didn't even vote for my own pic becasue the other was so good.

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