Best bristleworm ERADICATOR

[poniegirl]

This fish has been in my tank for a week or so (?). I was told he is a cigar wrasse. I can find no info on a fish that looks like him

so I can't really vouch for the name.
I told my LFS I want a wrasse and he has been trying to get in one that I will take (I don't like sixlines, and won't own a cleaner). It's been two months. I went in and he said I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU. We walk to a tank that is housing hermies and a sally, he puts his finger in the sand and moves it around (for five or ten seconds) until out pops this beauty!
Sorry, long story short..He eats bristleworms, I've seen it with my own eyes. I know the sand is free of them, BUT GET THIS!! Twice today, he has picked a bristleworm, once out of a rock, once out of an empty hermie shell. He takes it to a rock, bashes it once, twice, three times, then eats it. I kid you not.
He is my hero. And I highly recommend this fish.
BTW, almost impossible to get a photo of.

 

[salty cheese]

Two questions:
1. Why do you want get rid of your bristle worms?
2. What will the fish eat if it depletes the bristle worm population?

 

[quaos]

Very pretty fish!
Wish I could see him eating those worms

 

[poniegirl]

Originally Posted by Salty Cheese
Two questions:
1. Why do you want get rid of your bristle worms?
2. What will the fish eat if it depletes the bristle worm population?
Sorry.
1) Over population. I have cut back on feeding, I have tried picking them..But they are disrupting certain members of my tank.
2) He also eats mysis. But I will always have the worms in the rocks, I don't think even this fish could totally do away with them.
Quaos, it is a sight!

 

[quaos]

I was looking to ID your Cigar Wrasse I may have found it but have no idea for sure.
Check out L ! V 3 @ Q U @ R ! @
PM if you don't get that.
Hoeven's Wrasse
(Halichoeres melanurus)
Hope this helps

 

[efishnsea]

Thats a cool fish

, how much$

 

[efishnsea]

Originally Posted by Quaos
I was looking to ID your Cigar Wrasse I may have found it but have no idea for sure.
Check out L ! V 3 @ Q U @ R ! @
PM if you don't get that.
Hoeven's Wrasse
(Halichoeres melanurus)
Hope this helps
now thats encrypted

 

[poniegirl]

Originally Posted by Quaos
I was looking to ID your Cigar Wrasse I may have found it but have no idea for sure.
Check out L ! V 3 @ Q U @ R ! @
PM if you don't get that.
Hoeven's Wrasse
(Halichoeres melanurus)
Hope this helps
Good heavens, I don't even know what PM means. I would like to see, though.
Efishn, 26.99 and a steal.

 

[quaos]

hi

 

[poniegirl]

Hmm I didn't realize you couldn't PM here. (Private message)
e-mail me
Please delete

 

[poniegirl]

Originally Posted by Quaos
hi
That is not him : (
Peppermint hogfish is closest to the look, but with a yellow/green tail?