MASA needs your help.

[Kunhardt]

@Lord_Blackadder is the SA resident fish fundi sure he will be able to identify all the fish that need ID'ing.

 

[crispin]

@Lord_Blackadder is the SA resident fish fundi sure he will be able to identify all the fish that need ID'ing.

and you get to id all the different acro's soon to be posted

 

[Kunhardt]

and you get to id all the different acro's soon to be posted

lol I'm more of a LPS Fundi...we can leave the acro's to @Adee.

 

[Yuri]

the first photo is a flame wrasse endemic to Hawaii ( Cirrhilabrus jordani )

 

[Mc]

Thanks Yuri

 

[richardmatlock]

Heres a few I'm struggling with.

4

Pic 4 is a blue line trigger. Better pic in my album.

Umm, no.

I would just think it is the pic. @richardmatlock can confirm

I do not think it is a monocanthus species as they normally have a spine in the dorsal fin on the head just above the eye.

It's an Ocean triggerfish (Canthidermis maculata). I've caught them from about 4mm to about 40cm long in PE.

 

[Mc]

Great thanks Richard.

You wouldn't by any chance know if that lionfish is Pterois Miles.

 

[richardmatlock]

11

Impossible to tell from a photo, basically depends on where it came from. If it's local, then P. miles. (Western Indian ocean and some of the Mediterranean = P. miles, Pacific and Eastern Indian = P. volitans.)

 

[Mc]

Impossible to tell from a photo, basically depends on where it came from.

I know what you mean I am really struggling to identify the lionfish.

 

[Mc]

@seank do you know what this is it was one of your pics.

 

[seank]

Yes, one of mine. Coral damoiselle

 

[Mc]

Thanks found it.
Neopomacentrus nemurus.

 

[richardmatlock]

@seank do you know what this is it was one of your pics.

There are spans of pomacentrids that look like that, my guess would be Neopomacentrus azysron - Yellowtail demoiselle -

 

[richardmatlock]

Thanks found it.
Neopomacentrus nemurus.

I disagree....
Neopomacentrus nemurus is more speckled than your pic -

 

[Mc]

Thanks richard you are right also has a slightly different tail.

 

[crispin]

Impossible to tell from a photo, basically depends on where it came from. If it's local, then P. miles. (Western Indian ocean and some of the Mediterranean = P. miles, Pacific and Eastern Indian = P. volitans.)

do we have anyone who works for Ushaka here, thats photographed in one of their displays and perhaps they would know?

 

[crispin]

Lavenda tang (i think, correct me if im wrong) Acanthurus nigrofuscus

 

[richardmatlock]

Lavenda tang (i think, correct me if im wrong) Acanthurus nigrofuscus

Nope, the white freckles and white tail are wrong. It looks a little like a Acanthurus maculiceps, but it is not one that I am familiar with. Where did it come from?

 

[crispin]

Gem Tang ,Zebrasoma Gemmatum

 

[crispin]

Nope, the white freckles and white tail are wrong. It looks a little like a Acanthurus maculiceps, but it is not one that I am familiar with. Where did it come from?

it may well have been a hybrid too, i photographed that in @charl fisher tank, i'll trawl his thread and see if it will shed some light. but you maybe right on the maculiceps