Sweet Flasher wrasse

[wrasseguy123]

i picked up this flasher this past week..and it is sweet...i am almost 100% sure it is a hybrid of p. filamentosus and p. flavianalis..it has an anal fin of the yellow fin it is all yellow with the blue dots..also its body color looks like yellowfin...it only has 2 filamnets but its tail is kinda lunate..i hope H.Tanaka sees this and will give me the id...but when it flashes it shows off some relly cool colors

 

[camaroracer214]

i love that fish...great job with the pics btw.

 

[Ben1]

I am not a wrasse ID man but the in tank pics remind me of the bodt markings on Paracheilinus mccoskeri

 

[wrasseguy123]

it is for sure not Mcoskers Ben...the Mcoskers has a single filament and the anal fin is red and yellow..the Mcoskers, Carpenters, and Yellow fin get mixed up alot....my lfs has them come in under all kinds of names..sometimes they are right and sometimes they are not...but thanks for your input..here is a pic i finally got of him flashing and the colors turn very intense.

 

[Ben1]

Yeah I am not studied at all on ID's of wrasses, but you got some great pics there of a beauty!

I wish I could photograph mine that nice lol.

 

[wrasseguy123]

thank you..you should see how many bad pics i have to delete just to get a few nice ones...fairy and flashers move so much and so fast they are very hard to get

 

[wrasseguy123]

here is a great one of him flashing the new flasher