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Judy Waytiuk 01-02-2012 04:49 PM

id on weird little hitchhiker wrasse?
 
I can't get a decent pic of this little guy, but he hitchhiked in on a pulsing xenia, hiding in its small piece of LR a few months ago and has been poking his nose out, growing, and finding new places to hide ever since. Shaped like a long, thin dottyback, with a rounded tailfin. Orange-red face and fin edges, with the tailfin solid back and edged with orange. Eyes like the sixline wrasses, with the horizontal black bar. Body color a dark purple-blue.
Cannot find an image of anything that looks like this guy and it is bugging me deeply...

Brandon5555 01-02-2012 05:02 PM

Coris wrasse?


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toytech 01-02-2012 06:48 PM

Wrasse as a hitchhiker wow your lucky !

Judy Waytiuk 01-02-2012 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon5555 (Post 666949)

Nope. If anything, it looks like the elongated wrass, but much, much more intensely coloured...

Brandon5555 01-02-2012 07:05 PM

Could be a juvenile though.

paddyob 01-02-2012 07:51 PM

Any pic good or bad is better than none.

Not likely to get a real id without.

Post what you can and I'm sure someone can help.

After a few months... If it was wrasse, it should be swimming the tank.

Judy Waytiuk 01-02-2012 10:02 PM

strange wrasse ID
 
okay, here goes, the best I could get... it's maybe an inch and a half long. and its crazy shy, and real quick.

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/...ngewrasse2.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/...ngewrasse1.jpg

BlueWorldAquatic 01-02-2012 10:06 PM

looks almost like an Elongate Dottyback

Judy Waytiuk 01-02-2012 10:13 PM

yeah, i thought that, too-- but the elongate's colors are just so much more washed out... this one is really brightly-colored... although I did find this shot of one on the web that looks sorta like mine...
http://www.seascapestudio.net/refere..._elongatus.jpg

xtreme 01-02-2012 10:19 PM

Pseudoplesiops Rosae aka Largescaled dottyback maybe?


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