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#1 Guest_FirstChAoS_*

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Posted 28 August 2010 - 11:09 PM

Can anyone identify these filefish species? Justin thinks the first is an orange filefish but I think the tail looks off (plus it has no orange unlike every other picture of orange filefish I see). Also it has an odd habit of floating head down making it either a plant mimic or sick. It looked like a plant when i first spotted it so I say the former.

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As for the second filefish, it could be a plainhead or a young specimen of the first one.

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Posted 29 August 2010 - 05:19 PM

i say that its an orange filefish because mark from biomes has been doing this for 30 years and says this is an orange filefish...
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they look similar.

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Posted 29 August 2010 - 06:21 PM

i say that its an orange filefish because mark from biomes has been doing this for 30 years and says this is an orange filefish...
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they look similar.


They sure do, every orange filefish pic i seen online looked completely different, do they change colors as they mature?




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