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

Longnose hawkfish - Oxycirrhites typus

Sea goldies - Anthias squamipinnis

Yellowtail goldies - Anthias evansi

Jumping bean - Centropyge acanthops

Tiger angelfish - Apolemichthys kingi

Threespot angelfish - Apolemichthys trimaculatus

Juvenile Emperor angelfish

Adult Emperor angelfish - Pomacanthus imperator

 

[Mekaeel]

kewl, only need to pick up some hermit crabs and thought if it was nice will stay longer

not much hermits there gaz.go to some rock pools,umdloti,ballito.might dive this weekend,you welcome to join me

 

[Mekaeel]

where abouts is limestone??

swim to the end of vetchies and head north and lime sone actually meets vetchies

 

[gaz19]

is it good that the wind changed direction weather man? i will take you up on that dive, will have to check if theres nothing planed first.

awhile ago i diving near ushaka. if you had to stand infront of ushaka and look to the right. it is was along that "wall" near the harbour. is that lime stone. if it is, there wear crabs by the dozen

 

[Mekaeel]

is it good that the wind changed direction weather man? i will take you up on that dive, will have to check if theres nothing planed first.

awhile ago i diving near ushaka. if you had to stand infront of ushaka and look to the right. it is was along that "wall" near the harbour. is that lime stone. if it is, there wear crabs by the dozen

yes gaz,S, SW is a good wind direction.it cleans up our waters.yip leme know if you wana join me for the dive then.the wall near the harbour that you saw is north pier.excellent dive spot.but soon to be broken down to widen the harbour

 

[gaz19]

i have seen acropora there before, only brown. sisters boyfriend stuck a piece in my sisters little tank and its starting to go green!

 

[Mekaeel]

yes there are some nice acros there,but a special permit has to be obtained to collect corals.to obtain this permit you gotta contact kzn wildlife

 

[gaz19]

or be sneaky

 

[viper357]

or be sneaky

and go to Jail.

No discussions on illegal collections please, if you want to collect then do it the right way and get a permit

 

[Mekaeel]

sneaky sneaky not good.had a friend who just started to learn to dive with me and he managed to catch to stupid puffers.and as we came out,parks board was waiting.luckily i begged them to give him a break as he was new to this.

 

[gaz19]

my sisters boyfriend has a permit just to clear that up. ofcoarse i wouldnt take the coral out

 

[Mekaeel]

my sisters boyfriend has a permit just to clear that up. ofcoarse i wouldnt take the coral out

gaz the permit has to be under your name.its about R75 (i think) for the marie fish aquarium permit

 

[Mekaeel]

oh yes and i shouldve mentioned,it can be bought at your local post office

 

[gaz19]

i just read on my permit that im allowed to collect no more than 10kg aquatic plants and 10 aquarium fish per day. they wouldnt be revering to tcorals as aquatic plants would they?

 

[Mekaeel]

10 fish is correct,but no more than 5 of the same species per day.in terms of aquatic plants,hard corals dont fall under that categoray,not too familiar with it,but if im not mistaken zoas and softies (i stand for correction here)

 

[gaz19]

ok kewl, do you think parks board knows the difference between softies and hard corals? im not going to try and pull a fast one!!

 

[Mekaeel]

dude.it is regarded as illegal to remove hard corals without the correct permit.so to save yourself from all the hassles dont try it out.trust me ive been in the game for over 13 years now

 

[palmerc]

The permits from the post office excl. any hard corals

 

[gaz19]

mekaeel/weather man is the beach rough to day or calm?

 

[Mekaeel]

gaz.the wind is blowing moderate NE at the moment,water is a little choppy.(brought to you by Mekaeel,the weather man ) dont know about visibility though

 

[Smithers]

With the wind like that I doubt the vis will be good. Monday would have been the perfect day to dive.