Species identification

[unionfishguy]

Ok, so we just got a large order of fish in for school, fresh of a reef (quite literally), and we have no idea what exactly we got, as it isn't what we ordered originally (we are fine with this though, as these are much, much better). Please help us identify what species we have, and maybe some general tips for them in need be!

we got four of the chubby ones (so cute!) but they aren't doing to well, any tips? They are just sitting in the bottom of their respective tanks.

 

[unionfishguy]

And before you ask, we did not feel the need o quarantine them, as they are going into tanks that have been set up specifically for them, with not other fish in them, and they all came from the same reef ( somewhere in the Florida keys if we have been told correctly). We also got four eyed butterfly fish, beautiful fish.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Go on live aquairia.com and browse their marine fish section. It will help a lot.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Liveaquaria lists all their needs pretty well

 

[Eienna]

Editing this as I go...
Pic #5 is a red cardinal
#7 is a damsel (gotta look up which one)
I think #10 is a perchlet or basslet of some sort.

Not sure about the others.

Try live snails (fw ramshorn or pond snails should be easy enough to get) or fresh shucked clams for the puffers.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Last two look like puffers

 

[Eienna]

I could swear I've seen #12 before but I can't place it.

 

[Squishie89]

I could swear I've seen #12 before but I can't place it.

Some kind of sweetlips I think. Although it could be this guy- Saltwater Aquarium Fish for Marine Aquariums: Hi-Hat

14 and 15 are toby puffers, not sure which ones specifically- Live Aquaria

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

When I first saw #12 thought it was a high hat, but it also looks kind of like a sweet lips. May I please see a picture of your schools tanks, I would love to get some tanks set up at my school.

 

[FL_Reefer]

#12 looks a lot like a jack knife but may be a juv. very active swimmers, will eat any meaty food. They will possible year smaller fish when they get larger. Here a pic of our for comparison

 

[Greenstreet.1]

You have a few dragon wrasses in there 9,10,11 also 2 and 4 also looks like some kind of wrasse.

 

[unionfishguy]

any ideas of what 11 could be?

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Looks like a dragon to me

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Agree

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Is your school teaching a reef class?

 

[Eienna]

#12 looks a lot like a jack knife but may be a juv. very active swimmers, will eat any meaty food. They will possible year smaller fish when they get larger. Here a pic of our for comparison

I thought it might be, too...

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

My bad, it is a jack knife juvenile I believe. :P

 

[eatbreakfast]

#1 Redband Parrot Sparisoma aurfrenatum
#2 A juvenile Grunt of the Genus Haemulon
#3 Atransitioning grunt probably the blueline Haemulon sciurus
#4 Juvenile Princess Parrot showing stress pattern Scarus taeniopterus
#5 Flame cardinal
#6 Another transitional grunt
#7 Dusky damsel Stegastes adustus
#8 Juvenile princess parrot
#9 A sp of paraclinus blenny, a seaweed blenny
#10 This I couldnt tell could be a barbfish, could be another juvie parrot
#11 Spotlight Parrot Spurisoma viridae
#12 High hat Pareques acuminatus
#13 Doctorfish Acanthurus chirurgus
#14, 15 Sharpnose puffer Canthigaster rostrata

 

[unionfishguy]

1 is actually a French Grunt, and 12 is definitely a high hat

 

[Emerdog]

The 12th one is a jackknife I think