Please help a ID saltwater fish

I agree with evolved.

I think everyone should follow the correct and legal path for collection from the wild. First and foremost though I think you should have at least some basic ID's down. If you do not know what you are collecting how you can possibly care for it.

I appreciated that the poster is trying to get some idea of generalizations regarding the fish personality and dietary needs, but it should have been prior to collection.

Researching the locations native/indigenous fish before collection seems like the prudent way to go, and very easily done.

 

Theres a reason we don't see some of these guys normally for sale too.

 

after it gets put into the tank, who asks what is this? what if it wiped out everything in the tank before you ha a chance to ask for an ID. wth is wrong with people lol.

 

Unfortunately, the OP CAN NOT return these fish to the wild. Once they are removed from the habitat and introduced into a tank they can't normally be reintroduced, at the risk of hybrid diseases and hitchhikers.

 

+1, hardly funny.

A fish may seem like nothing, but to the casual diver that piece of coral they break loose from a reef may not bee funny either. Now multiply that times 25,000 tourist, and throw in a couple annual hurricanes and we're talking large scale.

That handful of sand or water or plants you add from an ocean can also have a deadly effect on your tank. The polutants int the ocean are microscopic on comparision to an ocean, however now bos those pollutants into your 75g little box and the ratio is astrnomical and can be deadly.

The reverse can also be true for that little fish. Those tank swings & chemical balances can happen much quicker than they can in the ocean & kill the fish.

I wont even get into the legal ramifications, not my area of expertise.

imo bottom line the ocean and your aquarium are two different places and events. while they have common ties they are best left completely seperate.

 

plus in many states it is illegal to do so.

 

Its illegal to have those fish in the first place.

 

No offense meant but you shouldn't bring home anything from the ocean without knowing what it is exactly especially before you put it into your tank without some sort of monitored isolation period. I wouldn't even recommend putting anything from the wild into your tank anyway. There is no way to know what they are carrying and history can show us that diseases introduced into a new climate can have devastating effects... small pox for instance.

What you have effectively done every time you bring home something from the ocean is like giving your friends a strange hooker you just met and no protection. She could be a psycho about to kill and eat your friends or even just give them diseases. Sorry for the crude analogy but it was the most fitting for the situation I think.

There is no telling what sicknesses, or problems you could just bring home. It may seem awesome to try and save money but in the long run if one thing goes very badly all the money you have invested will be possibly wasted.

 

It's a tripletail, fine eating! You'll find them floating with debris. I once caught one only by lifting a 5gallon bucket into the boat which the trip was using for cover. I know guys that have just free gaffed them while they were chillin on the surface.

Not a good aquarium candidate. And, the guys are right about IDing the thing first.


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Definitely a triple tail. You would need to be a city aquarium or super rich to have the ability to keep this fish.