My Tank Setup, Dipped My Toe,

[mantis147]

Matthew that hitchhiker is great well done there!! The blue hermit with the black stripe legs is a electric blue hermit, i used to have them & they grow a little bit bigger than the others. I bought a mushroom rock at the weekend and that had a red hermit attatched

 

[Matthew5664]

Ski for you>>>

Not out fully as yet prop still ajusting to the 14" under 250W MH from 24" under 150's

more to come!

neon found a new home! the clam is now clown town! (995KB, 1152x864 Avalable)

better pic of the free-b

FTS as of now have a 995KB, 1152x864 vertion if anyone wants it? PM me

 

[SkiFletch]

Oooh, can't wait till that hammer opens up the rest of the way. Does it phosphoresce under actinics? And can I make a request for a pic of the hogfish? Wanna make sure it really was the one I saw in the keys yesterday

 

[Matthew5664]

There you go

 

[SkiFletch]

hummm, close but not quite. And he's not in any of the Carribean books we've got down here either. darn

 

[Matthew5664]

Migh be getting shot of him,mit bashing continues and he's taken a dislikeing to the new yellow tailed wrasse whos had to go in with the seahorses for now.

 

[SkiFletch]

Yeah, hogfish can be bullies in a closed environment

 

[rhysiboy]

im a big fan of your tank it is really brilliant hope one day i could have one half as good

 

[SkiFletch]

Hey Matt, I was poking through some fish books and saw some pictures of a wrasse with color morphs similar to yours. Halichoeres chloropterus is pretty close. You'd be able to make a better ID than me, but might be someplace to look if you haven't yet. The behavior you're describing fits that of a Halichoeres genus fish

 

[Matthew5664]

FOUND IT!!!!!!!!

About half way down the page!


Halichoeres hortulanus (Lacepede 1801), the Checkerboard Wrasse (2), comes in two varieties, the more common one from the Pacific and a more colorful color morph in the Indian Ocean into the Red Sea. Pictured: At right a tiny juvenile (hovering over a Fungiid) in S. Sulawesi. Below: A juvenile of about two inches length, and a "pair" in the Maldives. A larger Halichoeres at ten or so inches in an aquarium.
http/fishbase.sinica.edu.tw/Summary/spec...name=hortulanus

Thank you Ski! It a Wrasse after all and a the Red Sea/India Ocean variant of the Ckeckerboard Wrasse.

OH! nealy forgot found the Mystry Wrasse at a FS about 3 miles form work they want £120 for it $232!!!!

 

[SkiFletch]

Haha, glad you found it Matt.

And DAMN thats a lot of money for a mystery wrasse