what is it

[cooter1982]

can anyone tell what kind of fish this is

 

[jhnrb]

Need better picture of whole fish good side shot will help. cant see fins. hard to tell. possibly sweetlips or cardinal. possibly neither. better pick of whole fish please. will try again.

 

[minireefer]

If this is a freshwater tank.My guess is a African Cichlid Melanochromis auratus.
These guys are pretty mean little fish.

 

[jhnrb]

Please clarify if freshwater or salt. just making sure we are on the same page.

 

[cooter1982]

sorry it a salt water

 

[jhnrb]

Sorry cant help possibly small sea bass , dottyback???? hopefully someone will weigh in here with a good fish eye. sorry. i cant help with this one.

 

[minireefer]

The first reply was only viewing the front.
might be a morph of a forktail dottyback.The dottyback species is huge.

 

[Marine88]

Mabey some kind of cardinal???
Sea bass or dottyback??

 

[RyanG]

Wow! I think that this is officially the oldest thread I have ever seen resurrected! LOL.

 

[Tanked]

I'd say it was bait...LOL

 

[JAG107]

I vote for dottyback

 

[kmart189]

WOW Do you guys see that this question was posted in 2006?

 

[Bifferwine]

Sigh... I wish there was a feature that would auto-lock threads that haven't been posted in in more than a year.

 

[JAG107]

I bet the fish in question is dead now

 

[RyanG]

Biff can you see if Ian can change the archive level to threads that are a year old? How do people drum these up anyways?

 

[Bifferwine]

I would guess the "related threads" links at the bottom of each page.

 

[ndepratt]

it's a type of squirrelfish, a rather obscure one though...

 

[Alexander]

I would guess the "related threads" links at the bottom of each page.

or maybe just the search function. or just good old boredom sifting..... oh man i think im guilty of the latter!:shock: look you thought it had been more than a month and this thread would just sink back down into the abyss.

I would be curious to know if that person still has that fish or if they ever figured out exactly what it is. sadly we will never know.

 

[dustin_P74]

or maybe just the search function. or just good old boredom sifting..... oh man i think im guilty of the latter!:shock: look you thought it had been more than a month and this thread would just sink back down into the abyss.

I would be curious to know if that person still has that fish or if they ever figured out exactly what it is. sadly we will never know.

you did look at how old the last post in here was right?

 

[dcantucson]

Maybe we should just keep this thread going in honor of the little bugger.