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rcarbonell
10-08-2007, 10:06 AM
I once saw a fish looks like a pile of mud.. dark brown in color and a bottom dweller..

They called it at the LFS (Cartimar Philippines) mud fish.. I tried to google it but a different fish was known as a mud fish..

Im not sure if its the leaf fish.. please help me look for a picture of the fish im searching for.. tnx

rob0521
10-08-2007, 10:11 AM
mudpuppy?

http://www.earlham.edu/~lanest/mudpuppy.htm (http://www.earlham.edu/%7Elanest/mudpuppy.htm)

hamato_yoshii
10-08-2007, 10:16 AM
flounder?

fishdance
10-08-2007, 11:34 AM
In Australia we have an esturine Frogfish which fits your description. Batrachomoeus trispinosus. There is also a Bullrout - Notesthes robusta which is venemous but this looks more like a stonefish in freshwater.

Why dont you ask the shop for a scientific name? They will understand if you say you want to do some background research on the species.

Oddball
10-08-2007, 3:32 PM
How about...

loconorc
10-08-2007, 3:42 PM
Mudskipper?

MudPUPPY is a salamander, not a fish.

Lupin
10-08-2007, 7:26 PM
Mudskipper would be my guess. Hard to say without a pic though. I've gone to Cartimar but nothing much impressive last time I went there.:D

rcarbonell
10-08-2007, 8:27 PM
In Australia we have an esturine Frogfish which fits your description.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Opsanus_beta_1.jpg

Im still not sure if this is the fish.. The one i saw was much darker in color.. Tnx!

killerfish
10-10-2007, 6:55 PM
kinda cool lookin looks like a frogfish not sure

Onion01
10-10-2007, 7:27 PM
Any species of stonefish maybe?