Sunday we dropped by Elegant Reef for salt and saw an AMAZING selection of wrasses. We bought two that I fell in love with, but left a couple that were just as stunning for someone else (ahem, Sherita?). Then came home to do a nice slow acclimation drip, repair my mesh tops (they are wrasses, after all) and introduce them after dark. I couldn't be happier with the newest additions to the reef!

Here they are the first day checking out their new home. I put the net in the tank to block off that end of the tank as the pink skunk clownfish were being pretty nasty as the welcome committee (think they are about to lay another clutch of eggs) and threw a couple of PVC pipe pieces that I had offered them for hiding during acclimation as a therapeutic transitional object! Or another place to hide that none of the other fish can claim as their usual turf.


My gorgeous Labout's fairy wrasse:



And the ruby headed fairy wrasse I first saw a year ago in Denver and have been searching for since: (this guy is still spending a lot of time in the shadows, so forgive the lousy photo, it wasn't easy to get)!