What are these fish? I couldn't find them in the DeLorch books?

Blue Fish


Blue and white Fish


Brown Fish

the first two are parrott fish - in pajamas - i think...

Hi Bob! I think the first is a parrot in pajamas, but the second kind of looks like a filefish of some sort(?). Not certain because my monitor is not very good. Could the last one be a red grouper???

I just saw a picture of a parrot fish in night colors online and it looked just like fish number 1.

i still say two parrott fish and probably not a grouper (lips are wrong) - looks like a blue or gray/blue stripe fish i see often (which i have not ID'd) - have not seen a brown one though...

ok - a sample of what the 3rd one might be - wrong color and in general, difficult to tell...



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Too funny Bob! I told you my monitor is bad...the third guy looks like he has big heavy lips. Oh well, I'm useless.

Bob, the fish you suggested as number 3 is not right. The picture doesn't show it but the tail is wrong. He did look like a rather small grouper to me. He was about 12 - 14" best guess.

Ed - your brown fish is a cubera snapper...bobs guess is a blue runner hard tailed jack...the first two are parrots....

Timmmmy,
It sure looks like you are correct about the snapper. I'm hoping you can help with another ID for which I don't have a picture. The fish had a shape similar to the hard tailed jack shown above. They were everywhere, about 8 - 15" long, silver and had a 1/2" wide blue line running from the base of the tail to middle of the body (along the top of the fish's back).

Any ideas?

PS, can you tell what type of parrot fish these are?

Ed - I'd say they are both female stoplight parrots...is the first photo a night shot? The other fish you describe is the most common west Indian jack frequently seen over the reefs called the bar jack &/or skip jack.

(Message edited by muddysoapfish on August 23, 2006)

Both parrots were taken at night.

The bar jack is certainly similar to what I remember seeing though the pictures I see online have a black line that I don't remember seeing and the blue is pale whereas I remember a bright blue line. However, that's going by memory and that's not as good as it used to be.

Thanks for the info.

I'm sure I'll be looking for more ID's as I go through my pictures.

The second "blue and white" fish is a redband parrot fish (in night colors). the red band along the dorsal fin gives it away.

I agree that the first is a stoplight parrot & the third is a cubera snapper, although it's hard to say for certain.

nice pics

Susan Porter suggested that the third fish is a yellowmouth grouper and I think she's right. If you blow up the picture you can make out the yellow coloration on the lips.

it does have 'grouper eyes'

anyone have a good shot of this yellowmouth grouper?

I did'nt think so