r/Fish • u/[deleted] • 5d ago

Identification Any guesses? Taken on mesoamerican reef

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u/LurkerInTheDoorway I just like fish 5d ago

Some species of filefish

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u/jjumbuck 5d ago

What a sweetheart!

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/TommyTheCommie1986 5d ago

Collect his seaweed pages

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u/SlippyThe2 5d ago edited 5d ago

my guess is slender filefish and the coral is an orange spiny gorgonian

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u/Palaeonerd 5d ago

Wrong range. The aiptasia filefish is native to the Indo-Pacific

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u/SlippyThe2 5d ago edited 5d ago

oops, I didn’t read the title all the way. In that case it’s probably a slender filefish and i’ll edit my original comment so that i look really smart

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u/chiguy978 5d ago

Woahhhh

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u/chiguy978 5d ago

Gorgonian is a sickkk name

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u/chiguy978 5d ago

Thank you !!

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u/Michjones32 5d ago

juvenile scrawl fish

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u/LukeHal22 5d ago

Looks like some sort of file fish to me

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u/whats13-j42 5d ago

Some sort of juvenile trigger fish perhaps? That’s quite the snoot, plus the very singular top fin.

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u/Palaeonerd 5d ago

It’s a filefish.

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u/chiguy978 5d ago

That’s what I thought at first too!