Fish ID

[sgt.ruedas]

can anyone ID this fish the pictures are not very good but he is really difficult to take a picture of the first 2 are the best pictures I could take after standing in front of the tank for 30min the last is a picture I found online that looks very similar to mine only mine is Brown/gray.

 

[Rainblood]

spotted grouper?

 

[sgt.ruedas]

Yea I guess thats it i got him a while back at petsmart but I guess they had him listed wrong cause they didn't call it a grouper thanks for the ID

 

[Rainblood]

Oh I have no idea lol maybe wait in a second opinion

 

[Dmitri]

Looks like a grouper some sort, definitely a predator! Will eat any fish that fits in its mouth.
What size is your tank, any other fish in there? Very cool!

 

[joeyprice]

Its a Miniatus Grouper. Will eat whatever it can fit in its mouth

They do have several names, so PetSmart didn't necessarily have it mis-labeled. Had one in a predator tank with lions and triggers a zillion years ago. They're beautiful, but don't play well with fish that are small enough to be eaten. Will likely eat come inverts as well.

 

[sgt.ruedas]

I was able to take a good picture of him and yea i looked it up and it does look like a grouper. I went thru 2 pairs of clowns before I realized it was him that was eating them as soon as they hit the water in the tank. Ill be buying a fish trap and once I catch him ill find a good owner.

 

[ichthyoid]

They will eat anything they can swallow & can grow quite large (~2 feet) rapidly outgrowing an aquarium, if well fed. They stay hungry.

Cephalopholis argus - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[joeyprice]

That is an Areolate Grouper, the Miniatus was the pink and blue one you posted originally. Doesn't really matter though, it belongs in a very large tank with other large, predatory fish.

 

[ichthyoid]

Missed that last picture