View Full Version : Let's play the SW fish ID game
Fish Finder
09-18-2005, 8:15 PM
This is how it go's i will post a pic and everyone try to get what it is. The first person who get's it right will be able to post a new pic for everyone to gess on. A few rules are that it can only be fish that can be kepted in a SW tank not fish that are in the deep ocean or have never been in the sw fish trade. Only pic's of fish that are alive will be alowed. So with that out of the way let's have some fun can you gess who i am?
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y253/jpp118187/GemTangsAfrica.jpg
Fish_are_fishfood
09-18-2005, 8:39 PM
You are a gem tang :woot:
http://www.daveread.com/tripreports/cozumel/june2000/small/slender-filefish.jpg
hairfinned leatherjacket (Paramonacanthus japonicus)?
Fish_are_fishfood
09-18-2005, 10:05 PM
hairfinned leatherjacket (Paramonacanthus japonicus)?
nope, go fish :D, a hint, he likes his fingernails short and thin...
guppy
09-18-2005, 11:00 PM
I'm headed back to the web but my second guess was yelloweyed filefish, (Pervagor alternans),
or a young fringed filefish, (Monocathus ciliatus) they get very different as adults
Fish_are_fishfood
09-19-2005, 4:01 PM
I'm headed back to the web but my second guess was yelloweyed filefish, (Pervagor alternans),
or a young fringed filefish, (Monocathus ciliatus) they get very different as adults
He is a filefish, but in my last hint, he likes his nails to be thin or should I aslo say slim
bluedempsey
09-19-2005, 4:17 PM
thin slim orange filefish? :ROFL:
slender filefish (Monocanthus tuckeri), I forgot they change colors to match the background.
Fish_are_fishfood
09-19-2005, 7:19 PM
slender filefish (Monocanthus tuckeri), I forgot they change colors to match the background.
BINGO, we have owa'selves a winna hea...
Okay, live and kept in a sw tank and currently availabe, hmmmm,
try this one,
lizardfishman
09-19-2005, 9:53 PM
hawkfish. spotted?
lizardfishman
09-19-2005, 9:53 PM
hawkfish. spotted? speckled? high-fin?
guppy
09-19-2005, 10:40 PM
not a hawkfish of any kind, think smaller.
lizardfishman
09-19-2005, 11:25 PM
seaperch? dwarf basslet?
guppy
09-20-2005, 12:03 AM
getting warmer, sometimes grouped with either (mainly basslets), combine those two names and you will have the right grouping.
lizardfishman
09-20-2005, 8:56 AM
dwarf seaperch? spotted? red? speckled? hi-fin?
guppy
09-20-2005, 11:31 AM
Well it's name does contain the letter groups "perch" and "red" but you will have to come closer than that. It is about this long full grown,----------------------------------, but in it's own miniture world is an active predator that eats fish and invert up to half it's own length. It is a member of the same family as this fish,
blacktip
09-20-2005, 12:41 PM
It's Plectranthias inermis, or red blotched perchlet.
Bingo for blacktip!
Cute little terror ain't he?
Post a pic!
blacktip
09-20-2005, 1:15 PM
This one should not be too difficult, but it is a true monster:
Fish Finder
09-20-2005, 1:24 PM
Napoleon wrasse
Damn, I can't even take a shower without missing a fish heheh, napoleon or humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) looks like fish finder got there first.
blacktip
09-20-2005, 2:06 PM
Napoleon wrasse
Fish Finder got it! I knew it would be too easy, but just saw one about 4' at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach and my wife loved it.
That it,,,blame the wife,heheh.
Fish finder where is your fish?
Fish Finder
09-20-2005, 11:50 PM
sorry for the delay had to work. I caught this guy this year and it's one of the coolest fish i ever caught. Do you know what i am?
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y253/jpp118187/P1010145.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y253/jpp118187/P1010150.jpg
guppy
09-21-2005, 12:39 AM
Treadfin pompano, I'll have the genus/species for you in a minute.
Alectis ciliaris?
Fish Finder
09-21-2005, 1:11 AM
very good guppy your up
blacktip
09-21-2005, 11:59 AM
I blieve that is the Pearl Wrasse, Anampses cuvier.
guppy
09-21-2005, 12:11 PM
You got it black tip, post a pick.
blacktip
09-21-2005, 12:14 PM
Okay, here is the next one:
guppy
09-21-2005, 12:53 PM
That one is easy, dwarf sea moth (Eurypegasus draconis) the short body and long nose make it different from the other sea moths.
blacktip
09-21-2005, 12:59 PM
Can't get anything by you, guppy. Your turn again.
Hmmm, I just chose this because I like one of it's common names,
blacktip
09-21-2005, 1:18 PM
Okay, that is Liopropoma fasciatum, the rainbow basslet, aka the "Wrasse ass bass"
Yes it is, and the name cracks me up, your turn blacktip.
blacktip
09-21-2005, 4:25 PM
Here is the next fish:
lizardfishman
09-21-2005, 7:17 PM
that is either a yello-tailed snapper (ocyurus chrysurus) or a rainbow runner (elagatis bipinnulata)
Closest I have found so far is the rainbow runner.
blacktip
09-22-2005, 10:13 AM
lizardfishman got it, it's the rainbow runner
Yay Lizardfishman! post a pic!
lizardfishman
09-22-2005, 9:34 PM
yay i won! :woot:
someone else go bec. i dont have any pics.
and when i post pics in text the thing says the pic is too big
Fish_are_fishfood
09-22-2005, 9:40 PM
yay i won! :woot:
someone else go bec. i dont have any pics.
and when i post pics in text the thing says the pic is too big
Don't mind if I do. I pick this one out thinking of you, although by saying this have given a hint away...
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/sea/assets/factsheet_media/fs030103120205Y.jpg
Oddball
09-22-2005, 10:30 PM
Syngnathus biaculeatus
Hey lizardfishman, I just scoop pics from the web and save them to "my pictures" file then open the picture with either a photo editor or "paint" thenresize it to about 450 pixels on the longer side. I also then click "save as" and make sure to save it as a jpeg file NOT a bitmap because most bitmap files are to big to upload.
hope that helps
I think Oddball is right.
Oddball
09-23-2005, 1:38 AM
If I'm right, here's the next pic. If not... here's the next pic.
Oddball
09-23-2005, 1:42 AM
Guppy: try "printkey2000" for capturing and editing your pics. It's free and easy to use. I use it with ACDSee32 (also free).
The computer I'm using has ACDsee, mine has photoshop, everybody has paint.
I needed that pic a bit larger, do you have a better pic, maybe it swimming? it will have to wait until morning as far as me looking for it though, I have an early morning tommorrow.
Oddball
09-23-2005, 2:48 AM
That is a pic of the fish in its normal environment.
Fish Finder
09-23-2005, 1:00 PM
normal as in dead??lol
Oddball
09-23-2005, 2:22 PM
It's an underwater shot. The red is skin coloration. The black smudge in front of its abdomen is something floating near it.
I just meant the body angle, that three quarter overhead is a bummer. I still haven't had a chance to dig yet but If you can find a shot straight on from the side it would help.
Oddball
09-23-2005, 7:10 PM
Maybe I'll look for a different angle shot and maybe I won't. This is the longest one of my pics has lasted. It's kinda cool.
LOL
Just to show I'm looking and that I don't even know the family (yet) is it one of the greeneyes (family Chloropthalmidae)?
Okay, i'm getting closer but from the angle I can't see it's chin, I'm torn between one of the sillaginidae and one of the mullidae.
Oddball
09-23-2005, 10:36 PM
Sorry, you're getting colder.
guppy
09-23-2005, 11:18 PM
Cmon, give me a decent picture to work on, I've only got something like 28,500 fish to choose from, or give me the family, or maybe the area it is found in.
Oddball
09-23-2005, 11:28 PM
Just because you don't recognize the hints doesn't mean I haven't been leaving them.
Oddball
09-24-2005, 12:13 AM
Here are a couple more pics of this species. The one on the left shows an adult (NOTE: the orange blotches are parasites). The right pic displays a juvie.
guppy
09-24-2005, 12:25 AM
Much better pics but unless you know some where that guy is sold in the pet trade it is against the rules, Mackerel icefish, (Champsocephalus gunnari).
Here is the picture and a picture of the guy who took it in Antartica.
My turn I believe.
guppy
09-24-2005, 12:30 AM
Here is one that is from somewhere warmer and is even (rarely) found in fish tanks,
fishnthings
09-24-2005, 1:11 AM
any hints?
Oddball
09-24-2005, 1:36 AM
This is how it go's i will post a pic and everyone try to get what it is. The first person who get's it right will be able to post a new pic for everyone to gess on. A few rules are that it can only be fish that can be kepted in a SW tank not fish that are in the deep ocean or have never been in the sw fish trade. Only pic's of fish that are alive will be alowed. So with that out of the way let's have some fun can you gess who i am?
Sorry, misunderstood the rules.
"it can only be fish that can be kepted in a SW tank" - they are kept in public aquaria.
"not fish that are in the deep ocean or have never been in the sw fish trade." - not deep ocean but, they are in the fish trade. Seafood fish trade.
Fish Finder
09-24-2005, 1:59 AM
lol lol btw oddball i sent you a reply to your pm im going collecting tomarow so get back to me. Sorry for the derail. Il give the fish a try in a few day's if no one get's it
Once I got past my own expectations it was an easy one, especially with the second set of picks, I saw a video of these things thawing out from a block of ice and swimming away.
Clues for my post? shoalind reef dwellers that reach around 33" long and are considered gamefish.
That is all you get.
DeLgAdO
09-24-2005, 2:59 AM
im just gunna throw a wild guess
yellow tail barracuda?
DeLgAdO
09-24-2005, 3:16 AM
Sphyraena flavicauda ?
Nope and it isn't really a barracuda, and has a different common name in their home range.
guppy
09-24-2005, 10:58 PM
No guesses yet? It is from Australia.
Fish_are_fishfood
09-24-2005, 11:03 PM
Yellowtail Kingfish??
Fish_are_fishfood
09-24-2005, 11:05 PM
Or yellowtail scad??
No and no and the "recognized" common name does not contain the word "yellow" or the word "tail", go fish.
guppy
09-25-2005, 12:56 PM
I'm running out of clues,
It was originally named as an Esox genus in 1834 but it is true salt water and it's name was corrected to the current one in the same year.
It lives over reefs and rocky outcrops at 5-65 meters of water and is a popular gamefish.
here is a picture taken at 13meters deph near Montague island, New South Wales, Australia in 1994.
They are on display at Adelaide's public aquarium.
They are sold at a dockside fish market in Portland Harbor, wrapped in day old newspapers, by a guy named Mike who smokes cheap cigars and has six toes on his left foot, his dog's name is Winston.
Well,,,,,maybe you should ignore that last clue.
If no one guesses I'll wait until noon Pacific time then post a different fish.
Fish_are_fishfood
09-25-2005, 1:19 PM
My last guess is something from the mackrel family...other than that, and the hour I spent searching, I got nothing...
Long-finned pike (Dinolestes lewini), I'll post a new one shortly.
Here is one that some times shows up in fairly large tanks. I found them online for sale today at $37 each.
guppy
09-26-2005, 12:02 PM
Red sea, blue fish, silver moon, yellow boat, and green tourists. Very colorful image.
Fish_are_fishfood
09-26-2005, 4:27 PM
Red sea, blue fish, silver moon, yellow boat, and green tourists. Very colorful image.
What does this mean?
clues, silly ones but still clues.
forget the boat, forget the tourists, the fish is obviously blue.
that leaves 2 clues that mean something.
magic
09-26-2005, 10:57 PM
I get the clues (they are good i think), but still cant find what the fish is.
guppy
09-26-2005, 11:35 PM
Should I give the name?
guppy
09-27-2005, 12:14 AM
Okay, it is from the Red Sea and it's name is Lunar fusilier which means roughly moon soldier, (Caesio lunaris). I'll post another in a few minutes.
guppy
09-27-2005, 12:30 AM
Here is a tiny guy and gal, and eggs. the middle pic shows one on another fish.
I thought some one would have this by now, a lfs near here had one for $12, it came in with some other aussies.
Is it a type of cling fish?
guppy
09-29-2005, 12:17 AM
Yes it is and the fact that it is on a larger fish should give a strong clue towards which one.
Eastern Australia? Come on, one more guess.
One more hour and I'll post the answer and I am very dissappointed no one got that.
Sigh,,,,Okay, that was the Eastern cleaner-clingfish (Cochleceps orientallis),
Try this one,
Fish Finder
09-30-2005, 2:08 AM
oooo i think i got it but im not 100% is it a clown trigger? I have a feeling i might be wrong lol
That is the one, Balistoides conspicillum, the clown trigger, I haven't seen many for sale but I have been told they are both pricey and nasty tankmates with most other fish. Beautiful fish though.
Fish Finder
09-30-2005, 11:54 PM
That is the one, Balistoides conspicillum, the clown trigger, I haven't seen many for sale but I have been told they are both pricey and nasty tankmates with most other fish. Beautiful fish though.
those fish are very common around here and they are known to go crazy and kill off everything
Fish Finder
09-30-2005, 11:56 PM
here is a odd ball that ive only seen myself carry and sell. They do great in tank's. can you gess what he is?
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y253/jpp118187/goosefish.jpg
My guess is goosefish (Lophius americanus) and if I'm right I have seen none for sale except as frozen food except through you, If not a goose fish maybe an oystertoad fish.
Fish Finder
10-01-2005, 7:37 PM
very good guppy your that master when it come;s to this game
Go a head and post a new one.
guppy
10-02-2005, 12:43 AM
Here is something odd, a cool water western hemisphere fish
The lower one is an unusual colorphase, anyone? I'll settle for a family name.
guppy
10-03-2005, 11:02 PM
No guesses at all? It reaches 18" long but is usually smaller and is found in tide pools and under rocks from San Diego to Anchorage on the Pacific coast and is a great fish for an unheated salt tank as it will tolerate lousy water over a wide salinity and eats anything small enough, it can survive in a pile of damp sunwarmed seaweed above the tideline for hours.
Well, that was a penpoint gunnel and a great beginner's fish.
Try another
mauls
10-04-2005, 10:01 PM
chromis cyaneus AKA Blue Reef Chromis
Right on the money mauls post a fish.
It will be tommorrow before I am back online but if no one has gotten it I'll def. give it a shot.
Right on the money mauls post a fish.
It will be tommorrow before I am back online but if no one has gotten it I'll def. give it a shot.
ok here i go.
how about golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus)?
Correct! there awsome looking fish!
post another pic!
softturtle
10-05-2005, 2:40 PM
mauls... You have the absolute best avatar I have yet to see.
mauls... You have the absolute best avatar I have yet to see.
lol thanks man! i used to move back and forth, but this board wont allow it cause its orig 115x115 and the board allows 100x100 and i dont know how to resize it and make it still move haha!
Thanks though :thumbsup:
Here is a fish that you all should recognise,
looks like some kind of anthias
looks like some kind of anthias
prolly way off but im guessing a Mirolabrichthys dispar
guppy
10-05-2005, 11:57 PM
It is an anthias, a classic one found in the Mediterranean
mauls
10-06-2005, 12:12 AM
my lfs used to have some and they were jsut labeled anthius anthius, so i dunno what certain kind it is.
That is the one! It is the type class for the genus. It is also called the swallowtailed seaperch.
Your turn mauls.
ahh gotcha!
Ok this one will prolly be easy, but i can't resisit since its such a beautiful fish!
loach43
10-06-2005, 3:19 AM
Oh! Oh!.....I KNOW! A regal angelfish!!!......(I think)
Don't know the scientific name. Yes, very pretty, just as pretty as a flame angel in my opinion
mauls
10-06-2005, 10:57 AM
yup also know as a royal angelfish. - Pygoplites diacanthus
post a pic! :thumbsup:
Go for it loach!, By the way, welcome to MFK.
loach43
10-07-2005, 6:10 AM
WOW I GOT IT! Glad I came to this thread when there was an easy one to identify. I'm not a SW fish keeper so just about anything beyond a yellow tang would have stumped me. It's 5am right now and just got home from my graveyard shift so I'll post a new fish to identify tomorrow (or technically today). 4 now, must sleep. Thanx for the welcome guppy. btw, a bit odd to have a guppy pic on a monster fish site. Hmmmm I guess they do have moster tails. :grinyes:
guppy
10-07-2005, 12:08 PM
Guppies get them all in the end, heheh.
loach43
10-07-2005, 4:12 PM
wow you're right! Today I stopped in at my favorite LFS and saw this guppy ripping the fins off of a large oscar. Glad I had my camera with me to capture this photo as proof or no one would believe me.
loach43
10-07-2005, 4:19 PM
Here's a salt water fish to identify (should be easy). A must have for beginners and experts alike just because they are easy to keep and loaded with personality. Hint: common name rhymes with bombslotpenny.
Tompot blenny (Parabennis gattorugine)?
loach43
10-07-2005, 6:26 PM
Yep! I have the scientific name as Blennius gattorugine but for all I know that information could be dated. go guppy go! :woot:
philc21
10-07-2005, 8:51 PM
twinspot wrasse?
softturtle
10-07-2005, 9:13 PM
That thing is BAD A$$ man! Damn.
not a twin-spot, they get sort of dull when they get older, they also get big, around 50"s long, here are a couple pics of the same species as it gets older.
This guy is found as far west as the red sea and as far north as japan and throughout the indo-pacific. The young ones are fairly common in lfs.
blacktip
10-10-2005, 1:33 PM
That's got to be coris aygula, which I have always seen for sale as the twin spot wrasse, although I also found another name of clown coris wrasse.
Oh! I had never seen it except as clown wrasse and when I checked fishbase for common names I apparently did not wait for it to load long enough to get all the way to the last two listings. There it is second from the bottom as twinspot wrasse, mea culpa! It was correctly guessed and I thougt it wasn't. yep, Coris aygula it is.
Philc21 had it all along.
philc21
10-12-2005, 11:54 AM
haha i win!!! lol well heres the new one
http://www.reefermadness.us/images/RMD-Acanthemblemaria_crockeri.jpg
Brown cheeked blennies, also called crowned barnacle blenny ($29+shipping from reefer madness), (Acanthemblemaria crockeri). It is the only onewith both a comb and big cheek spots, I love blennies.
blacktip
10-12-2005, 2:08 PM
Man guppy, you are unbeatable on here.
philc21
10-12-2005, 3:16 PM
haha good job guppys got it
I have a good visual memory, heheh. Here is a pretty little fish.
messiner
10-12-2005, 6:33 PM
ITS A GROUPER!!!! lol
A Groper? no, wrong family.
philc21
10-12-2005, 9:55 PM
blue dot jawfish (looks sick tho)
philc21
10-12-2005, 10:38 PM
looks about right
http://www.qualitymarineusa.com/fish/photo/gobies/2812.JPG
guppy
10-12-2005, 10:53 PM
That is the same fish and in the Burgess guide they call it a blue dot jawfish (Opistognathus sp.?), in fishbase it is called pamamanian jawfish (O. panamaensis). A second look at the pic I posted makes me think it was freshly killed, oops.
It is definitely the same fish, your go philc!
philc21
10-12-2005, 11:34 PM
here ya go
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=2/unknown1.jpg
blacktip
10-12-2005, 11:49 PM
Pineconefish (Monocentrus japonicus)
philc21
10-12-2005, 11:53 PM
props to blackfish u got it ...... ur up
blacktip
10-12-2005, 11:56 PM
Here's the next one:
guppy
10-13-2005, 12:30 AM
That is either the Xanthichchthys auromarginatus (gilded triggerfish) or more likely the X. mento (crosshatch trigger) due to the lines on it's cheeks
blacktip
10-13-2005, 12:45 AM
Guppy got it again, it is the crosshatch trigger. Congrats and bring it on.
philc21
10-13-2005, 8:42 AM
this probly isnt it but Indian yellow tail angel (Apolemichthys xanthurus)?
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/angels/images/dusky7.jpg
blacktip
10-13-2005, 11:22 AM
I believe PhilC21 was close, but it's actually Apolemichthys xanthotis, the yellow ear angelfish.
guppy
10-13-2005, 11:56 AM
Blacktip got it, Yellow ear angelfish it is, this photo was taken near Isreal.
blacktip
10-13-2005, 12:33 PM
Next up:
To easy! Goldtail angelfish, 6 white bands, yellow tail, blue cheek lines,supra opercullum dot, and copper nape. (Pomacanthrus chrysurus)
blacktip
10-13-2005, 2:38 PM
I need to find my marine atlas so I can find some more obscure species for this game. Good job guppy.
No guesses on this wrasse?
blacktip
10-14-2005, 10:03 PM
I should have it tonight. I've been too busy at work to look during the day.
blacktip
10-14-2005, 10:13 PM
Is it Anampses caeruleopunctatus, the blue spotted wrasse
guppy
10-15-2005, 12:00 AM
:thumbsup: You got it Blacktip! :clap Is it me or are those spots really just white?
blacktip
10-15-2005, 11:44 AM
:thumbsup: You got it Blacktip! :clap Is it me or are those spots really just white?
I would say those spots look white to me, but maybe they are more blue in real life.
Anyhow, here is the next fish:
guppy
10-15-2005, 12:28 PM
I Have it, found your picture. It is the tilefish, Blue Blanquillo, (Malacanthus latovittatus)
You had me fooled for a bit though until I noticed the lip structure and that made me see how far back the dorsal starts, at first I was looking at the cleaner blennies, the the aspidontus mimics. Your guy gets a lot bigger.
blacktip
10-15-2005, 6:00 PM
You got it guppy. We once got one of these in as a juvi way back when I worked in an aquarium store. Very cool when they are 2" - 3", but they do get large and are nowhere near as cool when they do.
Here is another one that goes through a pattern change as it ages
blacktip
10-15-2005, 8:49 PM
I've seen this fish several times and recognized it right away, but I had never heard the name of it before. Thank goodness for the wonders of the internet.
This fish is Pholidichthys leucotaenia, the convict blenny.
I was at the Rainforest Cafe in San Francisco last weekend and the tank we sat next to had three of these guys that would poke their heads out and say hi to us.
They at least stay cute and not to big but they pair off and turn into craany dwellers when older. Great call Blacktip, your up.
Any guesses on the brackish game?
blacktip
10-15-2005, 11:31 PM
Okay here's the next saltwater fish:
Well I finally got around to looking at this and offhand I say it is one of the grunts,from the mouth and placement of the dorsal probably a sweetlips, and since it has vertical striping and that distinctive yellow lip this one should be easy.
That actually took longer than I thought it would, Yellowmouth sweetlips (Plectorhinchus plagiodesmus)
philc21
10-16-2005, 10:19 PM
wow that looks like sum variation of a clown tang that ive never seen thats crazy
:clap Damn you are good! :D I found it as a lined surgeon fish but it is also called a clown tang, :grinyes: this one was from the Marquessas, Acanthus lineatus.
Post a pic :thumbsup:
blacktip
10-17-2005, 11:22 AM
Good job guppy. Spot on as always. Go ahead with the next denizen of the salt.
philc21
10-17-2005, 2:15 PM
lets try this little guy
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/uploads/1414/unknown2.jpg
lizardfishman
10-17-2005, 6:10 PM
sailfin pike blenny?
Damn, I have seen that picture and I don't remember where. It is one of the pikeblennies and I am not finding many pictures, not an ocellata or a lepidota, don't think it is a limbaugh, how about a C. megalops or a C. resh?
philc21
10-17-2005, 11:17 PM
nope dont think its n e of them this is a tough one i only found like 3 sites that had n e thin on it lol good luck ...... it is a pike blenny tho so your on the right track
philc21
10-19-2005, 1:36 AM
lol alright if u guys do give up let me know
Found it, Chaenopsis schmitti, can't find a common name but these pictures were taken at the Galopagos islands, in 2002, by Gerald Allen, I think yours was the male.
philc21
10-19-2005, 11:13 AM
hahaha damn good job guppy that makes a total of liek 2 sites on the internet that have pics of them lol common name was yellow mouth pike blenny (i dont see much yellow in the mouth) but crazy lookin fish n e way good job ...... ur up
Nobody? This is a magnficent middling sized fish sometimes kept as shoaling fish in large tanks, It is a warm water southern fish that seldom reaches 12" long and eats mainly small crusteceans like isopods and shrimp.
philc21
10-22-2005, 2:19 PM
i have no clue on this one but it looks like its related to the big eye soldier in one way or another
Different family than soldierfish or squirrelfish, this family only contains 4 members.
blacktip
10-23-2005, 3:56 AM
It only took me two hours of scouring the web, not to mention a half dozen glaring looks and degrading comments from my wife, but I think I finally found this beast. It's Glaucosoma magnificum, the threadfin pearl-perch.
That's the one, isn't research fun?
I think that 8 or 9 of these in a 400g long would look great.
blacktip
10-24-2005, 11:30 AM
That's the one, isn't research fun?
I think that 8 or 9 of these in a 400g long would look great.
I'm not sure if the research is fun or insane. I could not go to sleep Saturday night until I found that fish. Obviously I have issues.
Anyhow, here is the next denizen of the deep blue sea:
A bamboo shark, I started to say Chilloscyllium griseum but them I found these 2 pics, so C. arabicum, Arabian carpet shark, the third pic is the griseum, gray carpetshark. I also wasted some time looking at hound sharks. I'll find a pic. to post.
Here is an aquarium dweller.
blacktip
10-27-2005, 12:18 AM
Nobody wants to venture a guess on your damsel here. I figured this one would have been easy. If no one else ventures a guess soon, I'll see if I can't dig it up myself.
blacktip
10-27-2005, 11:55 AM
Okay guppy, here is your fish, Abudefduf luridus, the Canary damsel
Heheh. I think people are losing interest, they say salt rots the brain.
Yep that is the Canary damsel.
blacktip
10-27-2005, 3:32 PM
Let's see if we can spice up this thread a bit. Here is the next fish. Should not be too hard to figure out.
blacktip
10-29-2005, 1:38 AM
I guess this thread is officially dead... :cry: :cry: :cry:
I think it is just you and me for now, I was waiting to see if any one else chimed in. I like your choice, the Dracula shrimp goby (Stonogobiops dracula) very Halloween.
kentobizmol
10-30-2005, 8:09 PM
only common name
guppy
10-31-2005, 12:18 AM
Okay, it is a Pterois russelii, called the plain tail firefish or the Russell's lionfish, here is how I tracked it down, from the shape and finnage I could tell it was a lionfish which is in family Scorpinedea, When I checked those I saw that the lionfish with the long fins and jaw frills are in genus Pterois, there are only 6 in the genus, only two are mainly white with narrow bands, the russelii and the volitans, the volitans has long eyebrows and a moustache, the one in the picture does not. So that leaves only the Russell's lionfish which has at least 8 common names. Here is your fish, and the volitans, if you look close you can see the long black eyebrows and lip tendrils on the volitans.
guppy
10-31-2005, 12:24 AM
Try this one, it is also a scorpinedae, but not often seen in private aquaria, it is fairly rare so mainly public aquariums have them, it has a couple color phases but the general pattern remains the same.
kentobizmol
11-01-2005, 1:41 AM
you are good guppy(even with saltwater)
i thought you people would said volitan but i couldn't get you!
your picture looks like somekind of frogfish(saltwater)
Sargassum Fish?
Histrio histrio
Right family, wrong genus, because it is an uncommon fish here is a hint, it is from new Guinea, New Caladonia, and Northeasren Australia.
A site I usually start my searches in is www.fishbase.org, they are about as close as you can get to a complete data base. You can search by common name, genus/species, jfamily, etc, and they even have identification guides.
sharKhUntEr
11-01-2005, 5:10 PM
stonefish or rockfish
guppy
11-01-2005, 10:36 PM
stonefish or rockfish
Right family, now find the right species.
kentobizmol
11-01-2005, 11:31 PM
it's not a sargassum fish?
wait arn't stonefish, frogfish, rockfish the samething.
wait my bad, the frogfish and rockfish samething right?
blacktip
11-02-2005, 12:04 AM
That would be Rhinopias aphanes, Merlet's scorpionfish. They had several of these at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Totally freaked my wife out as she had no clue that they were fish until one of them moved.
kentobizmol
11-02-2005, 1:01 AM
HAHA
Yep, the Merlet's scorpion fism is correct
blacktip
11-02-2005, 8:13 PM
Next up. These are pretty common, although not usually seen at this size.
kentobizmol
11-03-2005, 12:18 AM
looks like some kind of reshwater catfish...
blacktip
11-03-2005, 12:50 AM
It is a catfish, but not freshwater. If no one guesses it by tomorrow morning, I'll post a juvenile pic. That should be a dead giveaway.
philc21
11-03-2005, 7:13 AM
is it the striped eel cat the head looks different but the bodys the same
blacktip
11-03-2005, 11:50 AM
philc21 got it. I had not heard of them by that name before, but I did see them by that name on the net. Here's a pic of them as most people are used to seeing them.
philc21
11-04-2005, 1:15 PM
**** lol that was just a guess umm im not gunna be able to check this in the next couple days so i wont bother posting blacktip ur lucky enough to go again lol have fun ill check wen im back
repkyle6888
11-04-2005, 7:04 PM
pygmy hawkfish?
guppy
11-04-2005, 10:39 PM
pygmy hawkfish?
??? where?
kentobizmol
11-05-2005, 1:00 AM
pygmy hawkfish?
what da fu*K, are you talking about the recent picture, since i only see a school of CORAL CATFISH!!
pygmy hawkfish look way diffrent buddy!
skinnychinaman
11-05-2005, 1:36 AM
he must be refering to the Geometric pygmy hawk a few pages back..hahaha
guppy
11-05-2005, 12:21 PM
Blacktip, post a pic!
blacktip
11-05-2005, 5:05 PM
You guys are killing me. Let me see what I can dig up. :)
blacktip
11-05-2005, 5:10 PM
Here you go:
skinnychinaman
11-05-2005, 5:24 PM
threadfin travoli
skinnychinaman
11-05-2005, 5:24 PM
nice orange yumas back there!
Hey Skinny, which one? I would call it a threadfin lookdown but it is also called an Indian threadfin trevally (Alectis indicus), the threadfin trevally is (Alectis ciliarus)
kentobizmol
11-06-2005, 12:31 AM
yep; i'd go with dA lookdowns
it's called the freashwater blonde fish now give the scientific name??? :grinyes:
Sapiencii diminishis, easy to find, picky about foods, hard to keep.
Sapiencii diminishis, easy to find, picky about foods, hard to keep. :grinyes: :grinyes: :grinyes: :iagree:
skinnychinaman
11-06-2005, 5:29 PM
Sapiencii diminishis, easy to find, picky about foods, hard to keep.
not to mention high maintanence.. :ROFL:
guppy
11-08-2005, 12:42 PM
Well, here is the next fish, an 8" fish sometimes kept in reef tanks.
skinnychinaman
11-08-2005, 1:13 PM
sailfin/rooster barnicle blenny? but i have never heard they will grow up to 8"! have to do more research on this..hehe
skinnychinaman
11-08-2005, 1:16 PM
maybe Hypsoblenius gentilis sp
You are on the right track as it is a blenny, wrong genus though, here is another pic showing the feature that give it it's species name.
skinnychinaman
11-08-2005, 3:06 PM
Cirripectes genus..?
Nope, genus starts with a B.
skinnychinaman
11-08-2005, 4:31 PM
hahah.. ok.. Blenniella sp?
Well, the closest anyone got was that it was a blenny, it was the Butterfly goby and reaches 10" long. fairly common in the pet trade,
this next might be easier, currently sold at about $25 US, a good fish for a nano tank, only gets about 2 1/2 " long and is a peaceful eater of mysids and algae. It is supposed to be almost as hardy as the damsel fishes so it might be a good first fish for a tank.
skinnychinaman
11-11-2005, 2:18 PM
rainford goby , Amblygobius rainfordi
Also sister: Hectori goby, Amblygobius hectori (Solid golden yellow stripes)
Mourinho18
11-11-2005, 2:21 PM
Amblygobius rainfordi
type of goby :)
Mourinho18
11-11-2005, 2:21 PM
rainford goby , Amblygobius rainfordi
Also sister: Hectori goby, Amblygobius hectori (Solid golden yellow stripes)
:ROFL: , i was looking it up while you were posting. :D
skinnychinaman
11-11-2005, 2:25 PM
haha.. I guess i have to post a picture now.. here is a tricky one, only found at one place in the world.
Hiya Skinny, that is the one, If I ever get around to doing a nano reef I am thinking either that as a starter fish or one of the cardinals.
I have a feeling I know what your fish is but I have to let the niece use the computer for an couple hours, I'll check it then.
skinnychinaman
11-11-2005, 3:26 PM
no problem guppy, the hectroi goby are great and they munch down hair algae like nothing..hehehe.. I have a lot more knowledge toward saltwater and corals.. I am just getting back to freshwater and i must say, this site rocks! I am learning ne things everyday and seeing new freshwater fish that i have never seen before.
a hint - the fish above is the drawf version of its sister specie
Well, I am back, beforeI go looking my first impression is a hairy frogfish
skinnychinaman
11-11-2005, 6:08 PM
nope.. hehehe..
I think it is the Striated or hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus), possibly a subspecies from the Lambeh Strait.
skinnychinaman
11-11-2005, 6:37 PM
nope.. heheh.. another clue.. they are scorpion fish, now you just have to guess the first name.. its a location...
ahhh.. i am giving too much clues..
Okay, sorpinidae here I come.
I have never even seen a picture of these before but I am guessing Ambon scorpionfish, (Pteroidichthys ambonensis)