Hexagon Grouper?

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Searched through every grouper type I can find. Don't have a photo with the full body. Probably around 40ft, Little Cayman, May 2009. Thanks!
 

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That is a Tiger Grouper in cleaning station colors. It has faint stripes on the sides that become more distinct in it's darker phase, which it can affect very rapidly.

Courtney
 
Wow - Thanks for your quick reply! I'm just starting diving more seriously and I have so much to learn, but I love the process of trying to ID all the marine life.
 
You will see more groupers around Little Cayman and Cayman Brac than anywhere else in the Caribbean. A hexagon grouper is very, very pretty but I have only seen them in the Pacific. Sometimes mother nature can create colour schemes that simply defy imagination. It can be very humbling........

I think I may have seen them in the Red Sea also, but I con't remember for sure.
 
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