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[CJJ]

What does everybody think??
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Close up of fish.

Edited by Bowdy, 05 July 2012 - 10:12 PM.
Merge pics. Bowdy

[Bowdy]

What are we ment to be looking at ?

[sandgroper]

Thats one ugly fish, some sort of stone fish i guess. Open your eyes Bowdy and use your imagination.

[SamJohns]

Alot of faces in that live rock. Can't imagine what it would start to look like after a couple of "beers" haha

[Neakit]

some species of stone fish. Good luck with him.

[Riggers]

Hey bro the tanks looking good

If its from Australian waters there's 2 possibilities for the stonefish, Synanceia or S. verrucosa. If its imported it could be any number of different stonefish

[Riggers]

And I just found another species that is referred to as a 'false stonefish', Scorpaenopsis diabolus, which is also found in Australian waters where'd you get him from Courtney?

[dazzabozza]

Not a stoney me thinks but still a scorpionfish of some sort.

[spilo]

maybe a frogfish.... cool fish

[CJJ]

Dads been working on an occy boat and apparently heaps of wierd fish come up... its not very wide like a common stonefish, more of a thinner body... but it changes colour and sits around pretending to be a rock, like a stone fish.. its amazing how much it changes, it can go from a smooth white skin with black dots to a lumpy brown colour!

[Bowdy]

Get a better pic if you can mate. Very interesting.

[CJJ]

http://www.australia...pcus-maculatus/

Thats the one....!
24 hours of searching later
Its skin had gone flaky and started to fall off, i freaked out and googled 'fish shedding skin'... Turns out these guys actually shed their skin like a snake, amazing!

[Riggers]

Dude that's sick!! Great ID it had us all fooled so it seems