Article South African Marine Fish

I have been reading through a book that my daughter took out at her school library for me to read, shame, very thoughtful of her. The book is called Sea Fishes of Southern Africa, with most of the photo's by Dennis King, incidentally, did you know that the Tiger Angelfish - Apolemichthys kingi, a fish found ONLY on our coast line was discovered by and is named after Dennis King, pretty cool hey. I believe the price tag on one of these fish can reach up to R35 000.00 overseas.

Anyway, just thought I would share a bit of info and photo's of some of the awesome fish that the we get on our coastline, time to start diving I think :)

Spotted hawkfish - Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus

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Longnose hawkfish - Oxycirrhites typus

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Sea goldies - Anthias squamipinnis

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Yellowtail goldies - Anthias evansi

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Jumping bean - Centropyge acanthops

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Tiger angelfish - Apolemichthys kingi

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Threespot angelfish - Apolemichthys trimaculatus

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Juvenile Emperor angelfish

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Adult Emperor angelfish - Pomacanthus imperator

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viper said:
He puts a R35000.00 fish in a plastic bin :banghead::banghead::banghead:
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is that bin going purple?
 
thats why he can keep 35000 fish in rubbish bins
 
Kanga do you want some of those Convict Surgeon's. Those things are everywhere in the rock pools here. If you come up for IMACSA I will get you some .... FOR FREE ... Just in case YOU people out there thought otherwise !
 
You lucky lucky people, we have no fancy fish around the shores of GB, nuffink, nada, zip:( :( and you lot can just wander in and collect as many Convict tangs as you like:012: :012: can any of you kind peeps pop a couple in an envelope and post 'em??:)
 
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