The Largest fish in the sea?

[Cutiewitbooty]

Yeha that's what i have heard to, plus it's kinda sad. They are like sitting ducks, it's not even really a challange, alot of them will come up to you for a quick pet

 

[Dave A]

Well if we don't count sharks (Whale Shark) then the Ocean Sunfish is the largest at over 2 tones. None of the groupers get that large.

Dave

 

[CrazyLionfish]

Is that sunfish real, because that thing is AWESOME looking and freaky..

Do giant squid count

 

[verde_ad]

I have seen personally a halibut over 300 lbs, but I know they get much larger then that. They don't call them ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œBarn Door Fish" for nothing. Some of those groupers are crazy big too.

 

[yoDavid]

never seen those sunfish before... pretty crazy....

the 4 foot napolean wrasse was at marinelifedesigns.com in ft, lauderdale , they should still have him, but they dont allow access to retail buyers anymore.

I think they always sell all of their display fish. and the napolean was for like 7500. Theyve had other "illigal" fish there before, I remember a yellow angel was like 2000 bucks.

THey also have another smaller one without the hump in the same display tank and had another in a holding tank.

The display must be around 20feet long, 6 feet front to back, and around 10 feet deep. (it had a ton of LIVING COLOR fake rock and coral structures in it)

I'll check if they let me in, and I'll take some pics.

 

[yoDavid]

some pics of the 6 foot goliath grouper at the tampa bay aquarium.

<img src="http://www.geocities.com/nep2nreef/goliath1.jpg">

<img src="http://www.geocities.com/nep2nreef/goliath2.jpg">

 

[yoDavid]

I dont think the pic of the fat guy holding the caught grouper is fake... Only cuz i got the pic off the FLorida Museum of Natural History web site, and they probaly check their info for fakeness.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/GoliathGrouper/GoliathGrouper.html

 

[pitt_prodigy]

Personally i dont think its a fake either, the fish casts a perfect shadow and that would be difficult to reproduce with photoshop (trust me... i have tried a similar project as a gag gift for a friend). It is definitely possible for groupers to reach that size and bigger. Before this thread i head never heard of the Sunfish.....but after seeing that pic i think that guy definitely wins weight wise. Hope to see more pics....taggin along.

 

[eljefe3]

Thanks

Thanks

Thanks yo. $7500 huh.

 

[corpsman]

my bet is on the (jewfish) my dad and i where spear fishing in the gulf or mexico on a wreck he speared a 106 pounder and it was the baby of the family ive seen im guessing a 800 pound about 6.5 ft im 6.2 and it was bigger then me soo thats my guess

Jewfish are protected in Florida waters.

 

[corpsman]

Check out this thread over at spearboard.com. Its a spearfishing site.

http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=18936

 

[Cutiewitbooty]

thoes fish on that site are mind blowing!!!!!! Holy S***!!!

 

[Cutiewitbooty]

Sorry to double post

Here is a pic of a huge sunfish from over there at the spearfishing site. You guys should check it out its crazy!!!

 

[delv]

I can't imagine seeing something so incredible and wanting to kill it, don't think it's wrong...just can't relate to it...they are incredible fish.

d.

 

[Cutiewitbooty]

I can't imagaine how someone could kill that huge sunfish!! I mean seriously how? Wonder if it was found dead? Maybe they used whale harpoons or something, i have no idea.

 

[EdKruzel]

When I had an over-abundant amount Ctenaphores in my tank attached to leather corals, my research had shown the only active fish to eat them were the Sunfish.

Big tank, but I still think its tail would have stuck out and on to the floor...

 

[Lord Voldemort]

Well you said excluding sharks, but what about rays
The third biggest fish is the manta ray but it isn't that close to reefs. They're open water fish

 

[Lord Voldemort]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=5853188#post5853188 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by espo72
looks like a lancelatus grouper to me. Which, by the way, get slightly larger that a goliath grouper. They get to be about 9 feet long and 900 lbs. Here's another pic of one being caught:

Here's what they look like when they are younger...they lose their yellow as they age:

These are the largest bony fish of the reefs. Also, probably my favorite of all fish!

Top pic looks more like an oversized small-mouth bass :lol: