please id this guy

[grisha]

hi guys im glad to introduce this firefish buy petco. this is what i got bagged :fishhit:

 

[crox99]

Some kind of wrasse.

 

[crox99]

Did you buy it at Petco on Utica Ave?

 

[grisha]

i got this guy from 16 st

 

[crox99]

16 st?

 

[grisha]

union square

 

[crox99]

Got it. How much did they charge you for it?

 

[grisha]

i do not remember like 7 dollars. but the funny part that they also included 3 empty old turbo snail shells for 3.99 each whole thing was like 20

 

[crox99]

That's a lot for an empty shell.

 

[grisha]

and i know if i go and complain they gonna make an expert face and look at me like a laying idiot. awesome stuff petco have let me tell ya

 

[Tonyscoots84]

it looks like a blue sided fairy wrasse....

 

[Pedro]

FWIW, that's a blue sided wrasse. You shop at petco?

 

[grisha]

last time i promise

 

[grisha]

thank you guys for this id

 

[grisha]

he looks very different from this guy http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/fish/20569-need-wrasse-id.html
a female?

 

[Wes]

$7 bucks? wow nice score

 

[scarf_ace1981]

not 100% sure if it's a blue sided fairy. this one has almost one color all over, and those blue lines :scratch:

could be a hybrid. very nice for sure. the best person to ask is heuerfan. he has an article w/ hundreds of wrasse pics.

the guy that sold it to you is probably the same guy that sold me my clown wrasse as a dottyback for $16.

btw don't buy snails there unless you see the snail in the shell. everytime i go all i see are empty shells.

 

[ellebelle]

And the same guy who sold me a C. pylei as an "assorted wrasse" for 20 bucks.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

i thought pylei when i saw this guy's shape but i'm not sure

 

[lfsmarineguy]

maybe a small female exquisite..? hard to say doesn't look like it fits into anything I know of 100%