Fish ID

[fin follower ed]

Anyone know what kind of fish this is, looks like a wrasse or hog to me.
http://jursygurl.smugmug.com/photos/5873021-M.jpg

 

[wocka]

sorta looks like a grown up of one of these https://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11...ot_parent_id=4

 

[hurricanes944]

i think its a miniatus(sp) grouper. not sure but i think it is

 

[wocka]

looks like a strawberry grouper for sale at the LFS

 

[fin follower ed]

Guy who has it said that it was only 4 inches so it couldn't be a grown grouper, the mouth looks too small to be a groupers to me. I dunno, it's cool though, so I wanna find out.

 

[cincyreefer]

Almost looks like a type of parrotfish at a quick glance.

 

[moraym]

wouldn't a parrot be a little shorter? seems a bit long to be a parrot, also the mouth area doesn't look right, too pointy almost.

 

[fin follower ed]

It reminds me of a broomtail wrasse but with different colors.

 

[beach bum]

definitely a type of wrasse, like the maori, but colors I have never seen before. Very pretty.

 

[fmarini]

yup, a wrasse, prolly from the same family as Maori (slingjaw, broomtail, maori)
beautiful fish, I saw one recently at an LFS, must be coming in to the US now

 

[chandler04]

not a grouper, but looks like it resembles a harlequin tusk, notice the teeth? Like tusk meets christmas wrasse almost. Nice looking fish. It is probably DEFINITELY a wrasse.

 

[gkp]

I think it is the same wrass we had. put a post for polar she did identify it a while ago but I forgot the name. It is cool it changes colors all day long.
Here is a piclooks a little different but when feeding they looked the same. As I said it changed color and patterns often.