I know this one must be easy... must be

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Puffer Fish

Captain Happy
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Lovely fish, just don't know what it is:


fish901.jpg
 
Post it on Scubaboard instead of photobucket and more people will be able to actually see it, giving you better odds of making an ID.
 
not so easy- I think it is Halichoeres bivittatus, but H. poeyi can look very similar at this stage...

ben
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If it's so easy, why don't you know? :popcorn:

CD.. because I am not a fish expert, have not slept in a Holiday Inn and find Identifying fish via their morphology fairly difficult.

This fish is not one I can find a picture of...not even close.... so assuming it is a common fish, then it must have different colors, but the body of something.

Ben, is not only a professional, but has a huge amount of talent, so him just giving me a name allowed me to search thru a few hundred bad images of that guy, until I found one that was somewhat close to it...(Thanks Ben).
 
Ben, I would go with your first pick...which was pretty darn good considering what the typical image of one looks like....
 
A slippery DICK????
 
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