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05/05/2008 02:25:44 AM · #1
05/05/2008 02:42:59 AM · #2
a really ugly one?

dunno, hard to tell when you are looking straight-on, maybe a grouper? how big was it?

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05/05/2008 02:47:54 AM · #3
hmm need the size approx and was it fresh water?

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05/05/2008 03:18:39 AM · #4
It has to be native to the Pacific ocean as it was at the Sealife Center in Seward Alaska - and everything there is from here. I just didn't get the name of this fish as I took a fast shot as they were about to close. The fish size was big - probably a bit bigger than a football
05/05/2008 05:06:32 AM · #5
if you look on the Sealife Centre's web site, it will probably have a list of it's fish - if not e-mail then the photo.

I bet they could tell you :- )
05/05/2008 05:56:02 AM · #6
some sort of oscar i tink
05/05/2008 06:18:01 AM · #7
I would go out on a limb and say it is a red oscar. looks like the fish may be a touch distorted though - perhaps from the glass.

Jay
05/05/2008 06:20:07 AM · #8
Originally posted by Hotspam:

I would go out on a limb and say it is a red oscar. looks like the fish may be a touch distorted though - perhaps from the glass.

Jay


I was thinking oscar, or maybe even an african chiclid like a mbuna, but Shutter pug said its from a salt water tank
05/05/2008 08:26:09 AM · #9
It would help to know how big it is. It basically looks like a grouper of some sort to me. And I have caught a LOT of grouper in my day...

R.

ETA: I can't find any truly head-on grouper photos on the web, though this one is close:

grouper shot

Message edited by author 2008-05-05 08:30:07.
05/05/2008 09:08:22 AM · #10
Originally posted by SnapperL:

some sort of oscar i tink


Agree, or another south american ciclid
05/05/2008 10:59:59 AM · #11
Grouper is the first thing I thought.
05/05/2008 12:47:44 PM · #12
This fish is a Wrinkle Neck. They hang around Cruise Ships looking up at the overboard discharge pipes waiting for their dinner.
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