Fish ID

[ScottR]

From a friends tank. I don’t know what it is. A bottom dwelling type.

 

[Hemmdog]

Looks like a hawkfish of some kind.

 

[ScottR]

Looks like a hawkfish of some time.

It certainly behaves like one.

 

[fishguy242]

interesting ,never seen,will follow for id

 

[ScottR]

Fishermen will get these in their catch and sell to fish stores. My friend said this particular LFS gets lots of weird stuff in. So I have a new place to hang out.

 

[fishguy242]

not a bad thing to have,we will never live long enough to see it all,lol

 

[fishguy242]

what time is it by you just askin

 

[ScottR]

5:00 pm now

 

[fishguy242]

3:00 am here slow night time to call it ,lol and i'll prob be here another hour, addicted to say the least

 

[Haydn]

Difficult from the photo but if it spends it's time hiding in the rocks, that doesn't suggest a hawkfish. Could be an anthias from the Plectranthias group.

 

[ScottR]

Difficult from the photo but if it spends it's time hiding in the rocks, that doesn't suggest a hawkfish. Could be an anthias from the Plectranthias group.

Good call. Looks similar but most seem red?

 

[Haydn]

Good call. Looks similar but most seem red?

I can't tell what colour it is under the heavy blues, get your mate to take one under white lights.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like the spotted mutton hamlet

 

[ScottR]

Someone in my reef club mentioned it could be a brown spotted grouper. Looking at the mouth, I can see that.

 

[scchase]

Missed this last month but without a better picture it is either Epinephelus macrospilos or Epinephelus merra . The latter is more common in the trade.