Fish, caught wild, need IDing

[elixir]

can someone pls identify this fish for me?

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i caught it in the Persian Gulf coast. its about 1.5" in length, diamond-shaped, has 3 sharp prong fins/spikes (one up top and two below) and is shiney metalic silver in color with orange(? - i'm colour-blind) patterns. i've had it for about a month now, its swimming at all levels of the tank and seems to be feeding ok.
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the same fish:<br />

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thanks.
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[burnah]

some kind of filefish i would say, http://fishbase.org/identification/specieslist.php?famcode=517&areacode=&spines=&fins=&c_code= this is a list of filefishes although i did not find it in there...

 

[Tank2379]

+1 on a file fish looks pretty cool and different from what I have seen at the regular retail or online stores

 

[burnah]

what does it eat? some filefishes are known to eat coral polyps for example acropora ones, others also eat aiptasia.

 

[elixir]

thanks guys.

it certainly does have a very small pouted mouth and other similarites to those filefish. i dont have any coral, though i do have a fair amount of LR which i have seen it peck at. other than that, i use the same bog-standard processed food - flakes and pellets, occasionally bloodworms - for all the fish and i guess it must find them nutritious as its still alive (unless its gonna have its growth stunted due to inadequate/inappropriate food?).

in terms of temperament, its swims around in the open more than any other animal i have and seems to be intimidated by none, including silver monos many times its size and myself when i glue myself to the tank like a drug addict! i dont know why, but its the only small fish that the yellowtail damsels dont bother chasing.

 

[Masterofnonsense]

Looks very similar to a Tripodichthys blochii.

 

[BBraker]

+1 on that, it is one of the tripodfish. If I wanted to hazard a guess, I would say it is a Pseudotriacanthus strigilifer, or it is one of the Triacanthus sp.

Bill