Mandarin? Or something else?

[1epauletteshark]

I was at a local aquarium fish market a while ago and saw a super interesting type of "dragonet" as the person in the shop said, although they call anything they don't know what is a dragonet. It looked almost like a puffer fish mixed with a mandarin? It had the size and complexity of a mandarin but the body looked like a puffer fish that behaved as a mandarin, I haven't been able to find anything similar since as they had sold out by the next week. I know ID will be hard without and photos but any ideas?

 

[SlugSnorter]

I was at a local aquarium fish market a while ago and saw a super interesting type of "dragonet" as the person in the shop said, although they call anything they don't know what is a dragonet. It looked almost like a puffer fish mixed with a mandarin? It had the size and complexity of a mandarin but the body looked like a puffer fish that behaved as a mandarin, I haven't been able to find anything similar since as they had sold out by the next week. I know ID will be hard without and photos but any ideas?

Hard to say without a photo. Any chance you could attach some images of similar looking fish?

 

[1epauletteshark]

Hard to say without a photo. Any chance you could attach some images of similar looking fish?

I would if i could but i have never ever seen anything like it, ill do some research

 

[1epauletteshark]

Looks like a tiny porcupine puffer dragonet

 

[Sharkbait19]

Maybe some type of scorp?

 

[1epauletteshark]

Maybe some type of scorp?

Ill have a look at that too thanks

 

[1epauletteshark]

Oh i remembered i have a marine fishes of South East Asia book and all the fish there are caught in bali

 

[1epauletteshark]

Mystery solved
They were flying gurnards

 

[SlugSnorter]

Mystery solved
They were flying gurnards

interesting! not common to the hobby.

 

[1epauletteshark]

interesting! not common to the hobby.

Yeah I can tell, not much information on them. The ones there were tiny. These shops get all sorts of rare exotic fish in it’s just a shame they don’t know their names. It’s always a surprise when you go, you never what they will have. I went one weekend and there was this little yellow banded possum wrasse and I had been wanting one for forever so I got really lucky. It was around 3.5$ Us

 

[1epauletteshark]

Might it be interesting if I make a thread to document what I see there every week as there are some very rare and beautiful fish there?

 

[SlugSnorter]

Might it be interesting if I make a thread to document what I see there every week as there are some very rare and beautiful fish there?

Always good to have some more cool fish on here!

 

[NanoJHB]

Might it be interesting if I make a thread to document what I see there every week as there are some very rare and beautiful fish there?

Would definitely be interested in that !

 

[1epauletteshark]

Would definitely be interested in that !

Will do

 

[vlangel]

I was at a local aquarium fish market a while ago and saw a super interesting type of "dragonet" as the person in the shop said, although they call anything they don't know what is a dragonet. It looked almost like a puffer fish mixed with a mandarin? It had the size and complexity of a mandarin but the body looked like a puffer fish that behaved as a mandarin, I haven't been able to find anything similar since as they had sold out by the next week. I know ID will be hard without and photos but any ideas?

I looked it up after you said what it was and that was a good description. One would need quite a large tank for that fish as it grows! Pretty cool however.

 

[1epauletteshark]

Would definitely be interested in that !

Thread 'Aquarium fish market adventures!'
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/aquarium-fish-market-adventures.963916/
Make sure to follow!

 

[1epauletteshark]

I looked it up after you said what it was and that was a good description. One would need quite a large tank for that fish as it grows! Pretty cool however.

Thanks, it’s not easy to describe them at all as they don’t look like anything else I have seen before. Yeah I saw how big they get and I was shocked as these were about 3 inches long if not less!

 

[vlangel]

Thanks, it’s not easy to describe them at all as they don’t look like anything else I have seen before. Yeah I saw how big they get and I was shocked as these were about 3 inches long if not less!

So, I take it that you are not going to be buying one anytime soon!

 

[1epauletteshark]

So, I take it that you are not going to be buying one anytime soon!

Unfortunately so, yeah