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01-02-2012, 04:49 PM
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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...
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125 gallon reef, vertex 200 lights, 40 gallon sump/refugium, 2 Deltec skimmers, Mag 12 return pump, Koralia 4 Wavemaker. (125 gallon freshwater discus planted tank. 40 gallon discus spawning tank, 35 gallon discus spawning tank) 
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01-02-2012, 05:02 PM
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01-02-2012, 07:01 PM
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125 gallon reef, vertex 200 lights, 40 gallon sump/refugium, 2 Deltec skimmers, Mag 12 return pump, Koralia 4 Wavemaker. (125 gallon freshwater discus planted tank. 40 gallon discus spawning tank, 35 gallon discus spawning tank)
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01-02-2012, 07:05 PM
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Could be a juvenile though.
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01-02-2012, 07:51 PM
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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.
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 My 70 Gallon build: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66478 My Mandarin Paradise: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72762 I wonder... does anyone care enough to read signatures if you make them really small? I would not. I would probably moan and complain, read three words and swear once or twice. But since you made it this far, please rate my builds. 
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#7
01-02-2012, 10:02 PM
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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.
 
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125 gallon reef, vertex 200 lights, 40 gallon sump/refugium, 2 Deltec skimmers, Mag 12 return pump, Koralia 4 Wavemaker. (125 gallon freshwater discus planted tank. 40 gallon discus spawning tank, 35 gallon discus spawning tank)
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#8
01-02-2012, 10:06 PM
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looks almost like an Elongate Dottyback
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01-02-2012, 10:13 PM
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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
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125 gallon reef, vertex 200 lights, 40 gallon sump/refugium, 2 Deltec skimmers, Mag 12 return pump, Koralia 4 Wavemaker. (125 gallon freshwater discus planted tank. 40 gallon discus spawning tank, 35 gallon discus spawning tank) Last edited by Judy Waytiuk; 01-02-2012 at 10:19 PM.
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