id on weird little hitchhiker wrasse?

[Judy Waytiuk]

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]

Coris wrasse?


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.174346,-114.046500

[toytech]

Wrasse as a hitchhiker wow your lucky !

[Judy Waytiuk]

Coris wrasse?


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.174346,-114.046500

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

[Brandon5555]

Could be a juvenile though.

[paddyob]

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]

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/ff438/waytiuk/strangewrasse2.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff438/waytiuk/strangewrasse1.jpg

[BlueWorldAquatic]

looks almost like an Elongate Dottyback

[Judy Waytiuk]

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/reference/fishes/pseudochromis_elongatus.jpg

[xtreme]

Pseudoplesiops Rosae aka Largescaled dottyback maybe?

[Judy Waytiuk]

Pseudoplesiops Rosae aka Largescaled dottyback maybe?

no, much more like the elongate-- I think it must be that, apparently they are quite rare in the trade. I must have lucked in!

[christyf5]

+1 for elongate dottyback. Mine looks just like that. Neat little fish, very reclusive but its awesome to see him when I get the chance :biggrin:

[paddyob]

Wow that's great!

Update us if you can get more pics!

Looks great. Wanna trade for my hitch hiker crab? He's cool ... Yea cool. Lol.


Great find!

[Judy Waytiuk]

+1 for elongate dottyback. Mine looks just like that. Neat little fish, very reclusive but its awesome to see him when I get the chance :biggrin:

Yeah, he really is a little beauty, isn't he?