Name these Miscellaneous Bonaire Fish

[drrich2]

Hi:

Back from a recent Bonaire trip & working on a Blurb book of photos. Would like to get specific I.D.s on a lot of animals we photographed. In this thread, let's take a look at some of the fish we saw.

Are these all smooth trunkfish?

Honeycomb Cowfish?

Are these red hinds, graysbys, or what? We saw a lot of fish like these.

Is it just 'flounder,' or are these some specific type?

What type of Surgeon Fish are these?

What am I?

What am I? Glasseye Snapper?

What am I (on the wreck of the Bakanal)?

 

[drrich2]

What are these red fish?

What am I?

I know there's a great barracuda. Would these guys, maybe 2 feet or so & in a small group, be juveniles or another type of barracuda?

Thanks!

Richard.

 

[Diver Dennis]

I think you need a Fish ID book.

 

[drrich2]

Got a couple, & the Franko's Bonaire card. Thing is, sometimes there's more than one animal that looks very similar, some of the descriptive differences may be difficult for me to pick up on, there's a lot of individual variation within some species, & these Blurb! books cost a lot of money to have made (I hope to get about 3 made).

Richard.

 

[RS]

I think the red ones are Blackbar Soldierfish.

Some weird looking fish you got there.

So...

Are you making a fish id book?

 

[H2Andy]

yes
yes
yes
yes

graysby
graysby

those three all look like peacock flounders

ocean surgeonfish

doctorfish

harlequin bass

you got me on this one

sergeant major

blackbar soldierfish

blackbar soldierfish, trumpet fish, and french grunt

you got me on that one

those are barracuda

 

[drrich2]

Are you making a fish id book?

Hah! No, just an 'Our Vacation' type album with maybe 200+ pages. A way to memorialize our trip & share it with others, aside from just handing them a CD with hundreds of pics they have little context for (my buddy did put a bunch of the pics at work where co-workers could see them, but the vast majority had never heard of Bonaire. Now they know it's 'an island near Aruba').

I didn't know Sergeant Majors came in blue. Of course, we were down around 80-90 feet or so, and this fish may've been around 70 feet deep, so I suppose the filtered light may've been the issue.

Graysbys, you say. Seems like these things were all over the place a number of places we dove. Makes me wonder how the small reef fish survive!

Richard.

P.S.: So, a smooth, not a spotted trunkfish then?

 

[H2Andy]

I didn't know Sergeant Majors came in blue.

you can't go just on color. color varies from fish to fish, and also on depth and light conditions ... they might not have been "really" blue. also, remember that the deeper you go, the bluer things look.

P.S.: So, a smooth, not a spotted trunkfish then?

yeah, check out the honeycomb pattern around their mid-section

 

[herman]

The 2 Andy missed are a Glasseye Snapper and a Black Margate

 

[Karibelle]

The second two fish (photos 3 and 4) are not smooth trunks, they are honeycomb cowfish.

kari
I am SO a fish nerd!