Let's play the SW fish ID game

[guppy]

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]

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

 

[guppy]

Hmmmm,

 

[guppy]

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]

i have no clue on this one but it looks like its related to the big eye soldier in one way or another

 

[guppy]

Different family than soldierfish or squirrelfish, this family only contains 4 members.

 

[blacktip]

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.

 

[guppy]

That's the one, isn't research fun?
I think that 8 or 9 of these in a 400g long would look great.

 

[blacktip]

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:

 

[guppy]

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.