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Post by gadabout on Sept 19, 2024 21:32:56 GMT -5
I’m thinking some kind of parrot fish or wrasse, but what kind?
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Post by Mynki on Sept 20, 2024 2:39:32 GMT -5
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Post by conchydong on Sept 20, 2024 8:41:32 GMT -5
I’m thinking some kind of parrot fish or wrasse, but what kind?
(Some day I’ll figure out how to add an attachment) I think new members have to have 10 posts before they can add pictures. |
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Post by gadabout on Sept 20, 2024 8:49:20 GMT -5
That might explain it. I tried following the instructions, but there is no “add attachment” button for me.
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Post by cadman on Sept 20, 2024 10:45:18 GMT -5
That might explain it. I tried following the instructions, but there is no “add attachment” button for me. I think you need 10 posts before it activates. |
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Post by gadabout on Sept 24, 2024 7:02:55 GMT -5
Here is the pic Attachments:
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Post by cadman on Sept 24, 2024 8:19:33 GMT -5
Looks like a parrot fish, but I ain't no expert.
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Post by tankered on Sept 24, 2024 9:24:56 GMT -5
Definitely a parrot fish.
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Post by Mynki on Sept 24, 2024 10:33:47 GMT -5
It's 100% a parrot fish. But in Florida you have :-
Puddingwife 'Green Wrasse' (Halichoeres radiatus) - It's definitely not this though.
Queen Parrotfish (Scarus vetula)
Blue Parrotfish (Scarus coeruleus)
Rainbow Parrotfish (Scarus guacamaia)
My money would be on the blue parrotfish. But I'd be lying if I said I was 100% confident on this one. Google pics of the scientific names and see what you think.
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Post by conchydong on Sept 24, 2024 17:37:14 GMT -5
Not 100% either but I'm thinking a Princess Parrotfish.
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Post by gadabout on Sept 24, 2024 22:03:38 GMT -5
Blue parrotfish is my best guess as well. Most of the pics I find online look somewhat different, with more vivid coloration and funny-shaped heads. Perhaps they grow into that. My specimen was only about 9” long.
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Post by conchydong on Sept 25, 2024 4:20:48 GMT -5
On the old forum we had a fish ID expert, Dr. Ray Waldner, but he passed away a few years back.
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Post by Zif on Sept 25, 2024 7:04:47 GMT -5
I think the blue parrot is more solid 100% vivid blue. Maybe this is a redtail parrot?
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Post by gadabout on Sept 25, 2024 14:55:21 GMT -5
I think the blue parrot is more solid 100% vivid blue. Maybe this is a redtail parrot? A definite possibility! |
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Post by louis357mag on Sept 25, 2024 17:08:13 GMT -5
I am positive it is a parrot. Just don't know which one. One thing I am sure of though..... Keep your finger out of it's mouth.
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Post by Mynki on Sept 27, 2024 2:56:57 GMT -5
Not 100% either but I'm thinking a Princess Parrotfish. Scarus taeniopterus? Don't they have striped red and blue dorsal fins and yellowish pectoral fins? There's usually bilateral blue lines on the head. To the OP. This guide might help you eliminate a few species. But I'm still not 100% what it is.  reefguide.org/keys/index6.html |
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Post by gadabout on Sept 27, 2024 7:33:56 GMT -5
Thanks for the link Mynki. I’m still undecided as well, but Redband Parrotfish seems to be the closest match. The thing that makes it difficult with these is the change in coloration at different ages.
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Post by Mynki on Sept 27, 2024 8:06:36 GMT -5
Thanks for the link Mynki. I’m still undecided as well, but Redband Parrotfish seems to be the closest match. The thing that makes it difficult with these is the change in coloration at different ages. Different colouration at different ages, local variations, very rarely, sports occur. And from what I understand it's also possible that Scarus species can hybridise. In a previous life I owned a business that imported ornamental fish for the fishkeeping trade. I've spent hours trying to ID fish from Colombian, Brazilian and Peruvian imports that the exporters misidentified... I think some of the anglers would be amazed what some of these wrasse, angelfish and trigger fish we occasionally catch sell for in the aquarium trade. I once watched a guy catch a huge adult French angelfish on one of the bridges in Islamorada. In Europe that fish would sell for between $225 and $260... Your wrasse around $50 to $60 easily! |
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