🐠 Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse (Paracheilinus carpenteri)
A Soft Orange-Pink Body With Fine Blue Lines • A Spectacular Male Courtship "Flashing" Display • One of the More Peaceful, Fully Reef-Safe Wrasses
 
📋 The Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse, also known as the Redfin Flasher Wrasse, has a soft orange-pink body etched with fine blue lines at rest, but males can rapidly transform, flaring their elongated dorsal and anal fins and intensifying into electric reds, blues, and yellows during their spectacular courtship "flashing" display.
It comes from reef slopes and rubble zones across the Western Pacific, including the Philippines, a constant, active mid-water swimmer, spending its day darting through open water above the rockwork. Every Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse we ship is feeding well.
A fascinating natural behaviour gives this species its name: males perform rapid, quick dashes through the water column, flaring their fins and intensifying in colour, particularly toward dusk, to attract females, a display considered one of the most breathtaking behaviours observable in a reef tank. It's fully reef safe and one of the more peaceful wrasses available, doing best kept as one male with several females, since ongoing gentle competition helps sustain the male's flashing behaviour. It's also a notorious jumper, so an absolutely secure, tight-fitting lid is essential. It reaches up to 8cm, so a 210L tank suits it well.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Orange-Pink With Fine Blue Lines: Transforms into vivid colours during display
💃 Spectacular Flashing Display: Males perform a dazzling courtship dance
😌 One of the More Peaceful Wrasses: A great community reef addition
🌿 Fully Reef Safe: Won't harm corals or invertebrates
⚠️ A Notorious Jumper: An absolutely secure lid is essential