Show Your Skills on ID

[myerst2]

Actually a great idea. Something new that has yet to be tried in these forums. Could have different levels of expertise. T

 

[myerst2]

Shameless Bump!

 

[tcmfish]

Discordipinna sp. as far as I know there is know species name for that fish.

 

[myerst2]

You are correct. To my knowledge there is no sp. name yet. Hoping you or possibly coralite knew something I didn't. Your up if your still down!!! T

 

[tcmfish]

I'm still down, just hopefully people who get it right will post a pic.

Anyways, here is a little guy:

Little fun fact about it too:
It prefers to feed exclusively on a single species of coral (I will give that when the right guess is made), one of my favorites.

 

[tcmfish]

Well, no guesses, but I'm going to be gone for a few days and probably without a computer, I'll be back Friday, if your patient, but I'm not so someone else feel free to post a new pic and I'll get to guesses when I'm back.

 

[AuroraDrvr]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14523170#post14523170 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tcmfish
Well, no guesses, but I'm going to be gone for a few days and probably without a computer, I'll be back Friday, if your patient, but I'm not so someone else feel free to post a new pic and I'll get to guesses when I'm back.

I know it, so if someone guesses correctly, I can confirm to keep this moving along.

 

[JHemdal]

Tim,

Would it be more accurate to say that it feeds on one *genus* of coral as opposed to just one species?


Jay

 

[wilcalil]

Let me try some

 

[urbor]

panda goby and wroght iron butterfly

 

[AuroraDrvr]

TCM's picture still needs an answer first.

 

[glassbox-design]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14517779#post14517779 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tcmfish
I'm still down, just hopefully people who get it right will post a pic.

Anyways, here is a little guy:

Little fun fact about it too:
It prefers to feed exclusively on a single species of coral (I will give that when the right guess is made), one of my favorites.

Glad to to see the thread still going. If this one has not yet been ID's it is indeed a little guy. A juvenile Chaetodon trifascialis. It is known to feed predominately on Acropora hyacinthus.

 

[wilcalil]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14525619#post14525619 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by urbor
panda goby and wroght iron butterfly

WOW! Bull's eye hehe

 

[tcmfish]

Glassbox way to go. Hopefully you'll post a pic

 

[myerst2]

Man I scoured so much literature to try and figure out what butterfly that was. My fiance always knew I was a geek, but then watching me get frustrated trying to figure out this fish was a whole new level. She said, "is everything okay?" No I can't figure out what fish this is! "Can I help?" Yes do you know of a obligate Chaetodon that's main diet is of one species small polyp corals? She laughed uncontrollably and rightfully so!! T

 

[tcmfish]

Haha, that's cool to know how much effort you put into it. I can't say I haven't done it before. Practical fishkeeping wrote an article on it, and another butterfly that I don't recall. The other butterfly was not negatively or positively affected when fed other corals, though Chaetodon trifascialis was. When I said it was one of my favorites, I was referring to the coral though, I'm a sucker for those tables.

 

[myerst2]

Someone just offered mr a nice 70 gallon corner display with everything. Has halides and t-5's. Has a couple of Monti's and acros. Some Duncans and zoos. It is so nice of him to offer me the display but I am petrified to start keeping corals again. I get nuts with spending money on corals when I keep a reef. I may get the tank and give the corals away and do a tank with a deep sand bed and keep the two species of garden eels that are usually available and some small jawfish, pipefish, and other funky fish. T

 

[glassbox-design]

One of my favorites:

 

[coralite]

Pseudanthias pulcherrimmus, also one of my favorites, very similar to P. randalli

 

[glassbox-design]

@Jake, Correct. Photo is a recent specimen that made its way to BBox in Japan.