Rare or Unusual

[Reefcherie]

Re: Meet MR Grinch!

Re: Meet MR Grinch!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6597132#post6597132 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by paingod
Meet Mr grinch!

Mr. Grinch is awesome!

 

[jjcrim]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6607233#post6607233 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by flyingace2005
jjcrim, what is the scientific name for that ray. And a little info on it please.

The species is jamacanthis (sp).

 

[Absint Reefer]

espo72, I noticed you have a lot of rare and expencive fish my question is to your where do you get them from and by the way I'm still drooling over that grouper and eel

 

[Absint Reefer]

PuffersKick, how much did you pay for that black dogface becaues I saw a 6'' black dogface for $175 wondering if its a good deal or not
thanks,

 

[Absint Reefer]

looks like a Epinephelus striatus stays pretty small for a grouper. Do you know anything about Cephalopholis cruentatus have one can't get a pic of it loves the rock work but have not came across someone that has even seen one before.
Thanks,
Carson

 

[spotfin]

Not rare, but unusual for Maine waters:

This picture is from Sept. 1999. I actually caught it in august.

This picture is from last week. The one in my avatar is about 2 years old. My favorite fish

 

[bobt2]

pic #1 is a reef butterfly, fairly common in the late summer here on long island ny

 

[spotfin]

It's actually a spotfin butterfly. Most "tropical" fish don't make it around Cape Cod into the Gulf of Maine.
All the pics above are of the same fish.

 

[jcopp24]

Spotfin

Spotfin

Where in Maine are you? Not to be a stalker... just curious if you were Southern Maine... Portsmouth NH here.

 

[spotfin]

I'm from the Augusta (Capital) area. Caught the fish in Boothbay Harbor.

 

[bobt2]

i stand corrected, however i've never seen one with the spot. the ones here have a solid black tail band. we also have a few 4 eye butterflys

 

[jcopp24]

cool cool...

cool cool...

I have a client that lives in BoothBay Harbor, and a friend from there as well... anyway he has a Sargasm ( spelling ) Angler that he found in sea weed of the coast of maine.

Cool to meet a fellow Reefer in the area... I am trying to make my Undulated Trigger my specialty.

( UMO Grad here too )

 

[spotfin]

Bobt2,
Sounds like you have reef butterfly fish (Chaetodon sedentarius) in you area. Do you keep any? Could you send some up here? I've heard the 4 eyes are harder to keep.

jcopp24,
That's really cool your friend found a sargassum angler up here! How long has he had it? There are a few types of algae that grow along the shore, wrack and rock weed, that look a lot like sargassum weed. Some of the other oddities I've seen up here are gray triggers, planehead filefish, short bigeyes, lookdowns, and mullet. Too cold in the winter for any of them to survive.

 

[bobt2]

they come up in the summer when the gulf stream is close to li.i have caught and kept everything from butterflys to soldjer fish to deep bigeyes. some years are better than others. i always have a local tank running. i could send some in late summer

 

[jcopp24]

Saragasm Fish

Saragasm Fish

He has had it two years... in a 75 gallon tank... it is about the size of a softball... I tried taking it off his hands for a FOWLR tank but the Undulated Trigger made it in first...

 

[stevebydac]

Hey espo, I have to say, you have great looking fish. But I went to your site and they all seem to be trying to eat each other! And what the heck are you going to do with them when they get bigger?? You have some fish that are going to be GIGANTIC, not just big! :eek2:

 

[Absint Reefer]

espo72, this is the best pic I could get of my grouper

 

[rwhhunt]

I posted my clown in the anemone section , and was told it was rare, someone said it was a misbarred allardi, but to be honest, I really have no idea... Its NOT a Clarkii...

 

[Absint Reefer]

are misbarreds worth more?

 

[paingod]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6644132#post6644132 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rwhhunt
I posted my clown in the anemone section , and was told it was rare, someone said it was a misbarred allardi, but to be honest, I really have no idea... Its NOT a Clarkii...


Whats that CREEPY thing in the rock hole of the 2nd pic?????