New fish..don't have a clue ...

[Puffer Fish]

This one is tiny.. really, really small.. not sure if it is a baby or and adult.. less than 1/2 inch long..

Off Destin in 55 ft of water:

 

[ryan115]

It looks like a juvenile Freckled Soapfish Rypticus bistripinus

 

[Puffer Fish]

It looks like a juvenile Freckled Soapfish Rypticus bistripinus

Are there any pictures of the juvenile. While they may get that far north, have not seen any freckled Soapfish... but then I have also not seen one of these before.

Thanks

 

[ryan115]

I was trying to find some pictures today, I still have a few more places to look. The body and fin shape looks like a soapfish and the adult can be nearly bicolored. I will continue to try and find a pic though.

 

[Puffer Fish]

I was trying to find some pictures today, I still have a few more places to look. The body and fin shape looks like a soapfish and the adult can be nearly bicolored. I will continue to try and find a pic though.

The body shape sure looks correct, I have seen juvenile standard soap fish.. we have millions of them. just nothing with this color pattern.. thanks.

 

[wazungu]

A couple of the little soapfishes have these brightly-colored juveniles- Rypticus subbifrenatus and R. bistrispinus. they get spotted as they get bigger.

ben
coralreeffish.com

 

[Puffer Fish]

A couple of the little soapfishes have these brightly-colored juveniles- Rypticus subbifrenatus and R. bistrispinus. they get spotted as they get bigger.

ben
coralreeffish.com

We only have one species of soap fish here (that I have ever seen).. and as they happen to like me (I know that says something bad about me.. just not sure what).. I am usually surrounded by them... I had assumed they were the greater soap fish...

Which is Rypticus saponaceus.. just cannot find any pictures of them as young..

 

[Puffer Fish]

When I look up the freckled, I get this:

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sure does not look like the ones we have here.

 

[deborahdelamar]

Your adult soapfish: Whitespotted - Rypticus maculatus

Other tropical Atlantic/Caribbean soapfish are:
Greater - R. saponaceus
Freckled - R. bistrispinus
Spotted - R. subbifrenatus
Largespotted - R. macrostigmus

 

[Puffer Fish]

Your adult soapfish: Whitespotted - Rypticus maculatus

Other tropical Atlantic/Caribbean soapfish are:
Greater - R. saponaceus
Freckled - R. bistrispinus
Spotted - R. subbifrenatus
Largespotted - R. macrostigmus

Thanks.. would never have gotten that from this picture on the web:

So that would then also ID the little guy...which I cannot find a picture of. Which is interesting, as that image does resemble the young...wonder if that is an intermediary one (which we also don't see here?)