Let's play the SW fish ID game

[guppy]

Here is an aquarium dweller.

 

[blacktip]

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]

Okay guppy, here is your fish, Abudefduf luridus, the Canary damsel

 

[guppy]

Heheh. I think people are losing interest, they say salt rots the brain.
Yep that is the Canary damsel.

 

[blacktip]

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]

I guess this thread is officially dead...

 

[guppy]

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]

only common name

 

[guppy]

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]

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.