Show Your Skills on ID

[tcmfish]

Halichoeres trimaculatus, but I'm not too confident...

 

[AuroraDrvr]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13981074#post13981074 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tcmfish
Halichoeres trimaculatus, but I'm not too confident...

Yep.

 

[joetbs]

sorry tcm, i crashed. long day of snow & fish.

this guy came from Japan. one of the coolest fish i've ever seen from there - i don't think they've ever been in the aquarium trade here.

 

[JHemdal]

Joe,

Although I've never kept one myself, I've seen these on the stocklists, so I'll guess its a juvenile Chirolophis japonicus?

Jay

 

[scchase]

Congrogadus spinifer or Congrogadus subducens

 

[joetbs]

Jay, these guys stay much smaller than the one you posted. There are only 2 fish in this genus, but you are in the right family (Pricklebacks)

I've only seen noticed it this one time on the stocklist and was lucky enough to get it.

It's not a normal Congrogadus sp.

 

[JHemdal]

Joe,

There are quite a few Pholids from the the temperate Pacific, and I just don't know much about them. Using your last clue, I went to FishBase and looked for paired species in a single genera, and came up with this guess:

Dictyosoma rubrimaculatum


Jay

 

[scchase]

Didn't think so just listed the 2 that I could find that lived in Japan not a lot of pics out there on these fish.

 

[tcmfish]

It looks as if myerst removed the photo from his acount, but I think he posted a blenny similar in the beginning of the thread, am I wrong?

Well I looked it up and his was in a different genus...Omobranchus varians.

 

[joetbs]

Jay,

you are correct. it looks very similar to D. burgeri but was listed as rubrimaculatum on the invoice.

I tried getting O. elegans from Japan a few times with no luck...

joe

 

[tcmfish]

Here's one to hold us over til Jay posts one...

 

[JHemdal]

tcmfish - Hey! Not cuts! I had to take a couple of minutes to make a crop(grin).

If we pay attention, I bet we can run more than a single fish at a time....

Here's mine:

Jay

 

[tcmfish]

Well I did have that one before Joe, and sure we can do two at once, the trick is if someone gets them both then we will be back to the one pick lol.

 

[joetbs]

Jay,

yours is Parapercis multifasciata

Morrissey,

yours is some sort of Apogon photoshoppedensis

 

[tcmfish]

Not photoshopped lol

 

[joetbs]

it looks like these but no latin name

 

[tcmfish]

Not those, the fish I posted is holding eggs though. If you look there is another stripe below the one that goes through the eye.

 

[JHemdal]

Joe,

Yep - the golden grubby from Japan....

J

 

[joetbs]

only other guesses i have is a Meiacanthus lineatus/grammistes but i don't think they mouth brood, nor do Sweetlips.

 

[joetbs]

wow jay that thing is fat!