Need help on a fish ID.....Shot 2 weeks ago @ the Flower

[diver 85]

Gardens in the Gulf of Mexico on a nite dive........TIA.......

[/URL]Flower Gardens 2014--nite dive by GEAUXtiger, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[renalea]

Looks like a Squirrel Fish to me. I've been known to be wrong before.

 

[agilis]

I would guess that is an Anthias or a Pseudanthias, of which there ares several in the Gulf/Caribbean, most with those long caudal streamers. The fish is red, suggesting a deep water habitat, and the white blotches tend to appear when a fish of this type is is frightenrd, as by a bright beam of light.

 

[diver 85]

Looks like a Squirrel Fish to me. I've been known to be wrong before.

.......I got a pic that weekend of a squirrelfish----here..:........

[/URL]Flower Gardens 2014 squirrelfish CU by GEAUXtiger, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[knotical]

I’ll play: perhaps an Indo-Pacific Swallowtail Hawkfish, Cyprinocirrhites polyactis, or similar, released from someone’s aquarium.

How big was it? What depth? etc.

 

[Wookie]

It's a creole fish.

 

[trygon]

Yes, it's a creolefish, Paranthias furcifer, exhibiting it's sleeping pattern.

 

[diver 85]

Thanks all.......