Please help identify juv. grouper

[keywest202]

Please help identify this little guy. I've been around saltwater fish for a long time but have never seen a juv miniatus grouper. They are usually about 6 inches in the LFS. This grouper was labeled as a miniatus but once I got him home, I'm not sure? Miniatus or red louti???? Thank You for any input.

 

[j-spot]

Maybe a Louti skunk grouper. Can't see the top of him in your pic but if there is a white line running down the top of him, this could possibly be the right kind.

 

[boalgf]

Could be a miniatus, hard to tell from that angle. I think it looks more like a coney grouper though.

 

[ophiura]

Does it have two little dots on the lower lips? Then its a coney (when I had to learn to ID some fish, I always remember this one by thinking it just at a coney island hot dog and got ketchup on its lips...for some reason this always stayed with me). I think they also have a dark spot on the top of the tail base....
Let me see if this pic works...
http://fishbase.org/Photos/PicturesS...6&what=species

 

[ophiura]

Looking a bit closer...I think I agree on the miniatus grouper
http://fishbase.org/Photos/PicturesS...0&what=species

 

[rustysdad]

Miniatus is my guess too

 

[csupdog]

Def. Miniatus, Louti has a V shaped tail... Better hope its not a Louti, they get huge! I have a Mini - favorite fish ever!!

 

[ophiura]

Originally Posted by csupdog
Def. Miniatus, Louti has a V shaped tail... Better hope its not a Louti, they get huge! I have a Mini - favorite fish ever!!
I love them too, they are gorgeous fish. What about your Conspiculatus Angel as a fav fish

?? :cheer:

 

[csupdog]

I have alot of Favs! lol My grouper is my new favorite, such a personality. Makes sure you create alot of caves. They love to just stick there heads out of a hiding spot.
I think my all time fav are wrasses though...