Help please with ID-ing these fishes.
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Chasmodes
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IMHO, my guesses, filtering Fishbase to the Aegean Sea, and I'm not an expert by any means, so it's an opinion. My guess is that to truly ID them properly, you'd need to do fin ray counts, check teeth, gill rakers and all of that stuff.
The first blenny looks like some of the photos of Parablennius zvonimiri on Fishbase. Especially if the fins were more red than your pics show. The cirri are small on your fish, much like P. zvonimiri. However, it could be a female or juvenile P. tentacularis. A similar Atlantic blenny, Hypsoblennius hentz, has large cirri especially in the males that look just like the ones in P. tentacularis. The female H. hentz also have smaller branched cirri. However, the coloration leads me to think P. zvonimiri.
The second blenny looks like the photos of Parablennius sanguinolentus (Google images through Fishbase). The white dashes and overall spotted coloration, head shape, lack of (or tiny) cirri, lead me to that opinion.
I'll take a stab at the bass. Brown comber (Serranus hepatus)?
As far as reef safe or not...no clue. I know that the Atlantic Hypsoblennius hentz is omnivorous and loves meaty foods. I'd be cautious about putting them in with any expensive shrimp or crabs. I don't know how they'd do with corals. Your blennies look fairly similar in morphology. The comber would probably eat shrimp, crabs and small fish, but probably not coral.
That said, it would make for a nice Aegean Sea biotope tank. Those fish are all very entertaining and interesting. Cool finds!
The first blenny looks like some of the photos of Parablennius zvonimiri on Fishbase. Especially if the fins were more red than your pics show. The cirri are small on your fish, much like P. zvonimiri. However, it could be a female or juvenile P. tentacularis. A similar Atlantic blenny, Hypsoblennius hentz, has large cirri especially in the males that look just like the ones in P. tentacularis. The female H. hentz also have smaller branched cirri. However, the coloration leads me to think P. zvonimiri.
The second blenny looks like the photos of Parablennius sanguinolentus (Google images through Fishbase). The white dashes and overall spotted coloration, head shape, lack of (or tiny) cirri, lead me to that opinion.
I'll take a stab at the bass. Brown comber (Serranus hepatus)?
As far as reef safe or not...no clue. I know that the Atlantic Hypsoblennius hentz is omnivorous and loves meaty foods. I'd be cautious about putting them in with any expensive shrimp or crabs. I don't know how they'd do with corals. Your blennies look fairly similar in morphology. The comber would probably eat shrimp, crabs and small fish, but probably not coral.
That said, it would make for a nice Aegean Sea biotope tank. Those fish are all very entertaining and interesting. Cool finds!
ThRoewer
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The "grouper" is Serranus scriba. Back in Germany I had one of those. They are predators but don't get very large. They are also simultaneous hermaphrodites that can under certain conditions spawn successfully without a partner.
Correction: it's Serranus hepatus
Correction: it's Serranus hepatus
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ahmed.fayaz
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Can somebody ID this one for me as well. Sorry to post in this thread since I don't want to create a new one for this?
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ThRoewer
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It's a Damselfish. Would have to look up which species exactly, but it might be one of those that get big, mean and ugly.Can somebody ID this one for me as well. Sorry to post in this thread since I don't want to create a new one for this?
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ThRoewer
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There is a very cool blenny in the Mediterranean Sea: Tripterygion tripteronotum (Red-Black Triplefin)
http://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/RDC-ad_20342
There is also a yellow variety: Tripterygion delaisi
One thing to know about Mediterranean blennies is that male and female of one species can look so different in shape and coloration that you take them for different species. On a class trip to Catalonia back in the 80s I collected a couple of blennies and brought them home. I thought I had just single individuals of different species, but a day after putting them into a tank one of them (the male) was guarding a nest. The possibl female looked nothing like the male. A few days later I caught them spawning again which confirmed who the female was.
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Chasmodes
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I actually had one of these for a while when I was new to saltwater aquariums in the late 70s. I added it to my 50g tank that had a bluehead wrasse in there, and the wrasse killed it before I could do anything about it. I would have traded the wrasse in for store credit, but, too late, the damage was done. I haven't seen one since. They're stunningly beautiful.
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