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Originally Posted by TheOldSalt @ 3/14/2005, 11:39 am
I'm also leaning toward Stegastes, or maybe Microspathodon.
I can't find any fish which match this one which is supposed to be in the area. Did this fish look different when it was younger?
Is it a common species in your aea, or was it an unusual find?
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I'm suspecting it was a gulf stream hitchhiker -- we get quite a few 'tropicals' that end up in southern new england.
Scubakid - are you snorkeling around Newport\tiverton, or maybe along the coast between Weekapaug and Point Judith ?
I usually collect my native stuff around Cape Cod - I get little choggies (1 inch and less) in the grass beds and patches of sea lettuce, or bigger ones along the rocks of the canal. I've got a 55g tank I use for my natives. This year I'm hoping to collect a juvie sea robin. When my brother and I go seining we see all kinds of fishes - seabasses, tautog, lots of flouder species, tons of killies, silversides, pipefish, puffers, baby eels, you name it !
Here's an article I wrote for the Boston Aqurium Society newsletter:
http://www.ichthyophilia.com/columns/gc2.html
I've been thinking of trying a few spots in RI soon.