Two different Bannerfish (photos)

[CoralsAddiction]

LFS has two, one of them with darker face I hadn't seen before. What's it called?
Light faced

Dark faced

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Ok, I might have figured it out. The dark face looks to be Singularis

 

[SoloChromis]

Looks more like a masked bannerfish (Heniochus monoceros) to me. Cool fish for sure, hardy from what I hear too

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Looks more like a masked bannerfish (Heniochus monoceros) to me. Cool fish for sure, hardy from what I hear too

You might be right. I looked at Singularius picture on Liveaquaria again. The one in the photo above has the black line on the face extending higher than LA's stock image.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Unfortunately not looking to buy it because my tank isn't big enough. I just hadn't seen them at all in Los Angeles area before today.

 

[Betta132]

I've never seen one of those before. Pretty.

 

[SDguy]

I agree, the second one is a small monoceros. In singularius the middle black stripe extends to the tip of the anal fin. And the yellow portion of the dorsal fin is very well defined... it doesn't blend like that.

Both have those sort of "masked" facial markings.

 

[Big E]

Not sure this video helps, but I thought it was really cool seeing this beautiful monocerous pair in nature and the whole video as well.

check out those long nose BF's swimming upside down.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...&mid=3A3D3A0051A24A7324A03A3D3A0051A24A7324A0

 

[SDguy]

Oh how I wish I could get collected pairs of butterflies like that!!

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Thanks for ID comments and for posting the video which was pretty cool.

 

[hogfanreefer]

Is the first one accuminata?

 

[SDguy]

Is the first one accuminata?

No... diphreutes.

 

[hogfanreefer]

No... diphreutes.

Thanks, I struggle with those two if they aren't side by side.