Who am I? (Anthias)

[Thomas78]

We got this in at my local LFS where I also work parttime. It was shipped to us as part of a Square spot anthias group from a Philipines shipment. A squarespot anthias it is not, I am guessing a Philipines version of the Ventralis?

The picture is from the web, but it is identical to mine. He is a big fellow about 4 inches long...

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Looks like bimaculatis

 

[Oscaror]

We got this in at my local LFS where I also work parttime. It was shipped to us as part of a Square spot anthias group from a Philipines shipment. A squarespot anthias it is not, I am guessing a Philipines version of the Ventralis?

The picture is from the web, but it is identical to mine. He is a big fellow about 4 inches long...

+1 on bimaculatus! Also welcome to R2R ;)

 

[Thomas78]

Maybe, but the purple on the fins throws me off tho. And the pink is much more intense than that of the female bimaculatis, it might be changing to a male?

 

[Thomas78]

+1 on bimaculatus! Also welcome to R2R ;)

Thanks Oscaror :)

 

[Oscaror]

Maybe, but the purple on the fins throws me off tho. And the pink is much more intense than that of the female bimaculatis, it might be changing to a male?

Thanks Oscaror :)

You're welcome, also if you look at pictures you can see they have purple on their fins

 

[Thomas78]

You're welcome, also if you look at pictures you can see they have purple on their fins

Yeah and I found a picture which looks much more like mine...

 

[Oscaror]

Yeah and I found a picture which looks much more like mine...

Beautiful fish you got there

 

[Thomas78]

Beautiful fish you got there

Thanks, I kinda have thing for these color combos, I have a pair of Terminal male Chirrhilabrus Isosceles, two small Deepwater versions of the Sunburst/fathead anthias and other deepwater species.

 

[drstardust]

Bimac!

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Maybe, but the purple on the fins throws me off tho. And the pink is much more intense than that of the female bimaculatis, it might be changing to a male?

Yes it is a male, or at least transitioning

 

[ca1ore]

Transitioning bimac. My favorite pseudoanthias.

 

[Kmsutows]

Yep its a Bimac. Ventralis are a fraction of the size. Mine are maybe 1.5-1.75 inches at best. What other deep water anthias do you have?