Oceanphotography.net

[glen]

Hi everyone,



I have been putting up a photo gallery on my oceanphotography.net website and I am pretty happy with the way it is coming together. Still a bit of tweaking to do. I might install a similar setup on squidfish to replace the current photo gallery.



Would be happy to hear any suggestions/comments. Bear in mind I have been only working on this for one day (and night) so there will still be some bugs to iron out I expect.



If anyone can help me to double check if I have identified the fish correctly that would be a great help.



Cheers, Glen <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/xyxthumbs.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



[url="http://www.oceanphotography.net/gallery/index.php"]http://www.oceanphotography.net/gallery/index.php[/url]

[Jazman]

Hi Glen, it looks good. Not bad for one day's work!! All the photos I tried opened up fine.

I am reasonably confident that the first unknown fish is a Johnston's Weedfish (fish #553 in 'Sea Fishes of Southern Australia' by Hutchins and Swainston). I think the stripey fish facing the camera is a juvenile moonlighter (#354). Not sure of the juvenile leatherjacket species, they are hard to identify at that size since they change so much between juvenile and adult. The fish you have labelled 'Southern goatfish' is a Blue-spotted goatfish (#326). The sweep is a sea sweep (#351). The fish in the bucket from charter fishing around philip island look like common gurnard perch (#173). The winged fish is a red gurnard (#185) also known as a red butterfly gurnard.

[glen]

cool thanks for your help jason. i will update it tonight.



i had some trouble setting up the videos but hopefully i will figure that out soon enough.



cheers mate,



glen <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/xyxthumbs.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Jazman]

Hi Glen,

I just had a look at your 'zoomed in' pics on oceanphotgraphy.net, and I agree about the unknown fish, it doesn't quite look enough like a Johnstons weedfish. The underside of the fish is a prominent white colour. The feathery 'horns' should be a useful diagnostic feature. I also can't make out the seven eyespots below the dorsal fin, although my reference says 'dark spots USUALLY on back below dorsal fin, becoming smaller with increased body size'. Can you remember what size this fish was? The odd thing about this fish that distinguishes it from the blennies, and most of the other weedfishes is that it has quite a prominent snout forward of the eyes, compared to blennies which have eyes basically right on the front of their head. I am starting to think that this fish is a cryptic/rare species, and might not be in 'Sea fishes of southern australia'. I haven't given up though and hope to find out some more information about this fish.



I can help with better identifying the stripey fish - I initially thought it was a moonlighter, but your zoomed in image shows enough features to confirm that it is a magpie perch (#122) - look particularly at the lips and placement of the eye. The stripe down the middle of the head isn't shown in the illustration in 'sea fishes', but I've speared these fish before and they definately have it. Check out this pic of a magpie perch:



[url="http://wandaba2.cool.ne.jp/kasai/1c_pacific2/1c04_s-australia/comment/magpie.htm"]http://wandaba2.cool.ne.jp/kasai/1c_pacifi...ment/magpie.htm[/url]

[glen]

thanks a lot jazman!



i updated the magpie perch description. This fish seems a little darker than the other examples of magpie perch I have found of the web this evening but all the anatomical features look correct.



as a side issue, you might use it already, but I really like the Google Images search function. Makes it very easy to find photos of fish. Expecially if you use the scientific name.



[url="http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Cheilodactylus+nigripes%22&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images"]Example Image Search for Magpie Perch[/url]



Here are 2 other good photos of a magpie perch -



[url="http://page.freett.com/jinbei/HP_WA/waf02_600.jpg"]http://page.freett.com/jinbei/HP_WA/waf02_600.jpg[/url]

[url="http://www.underwater.com.au/images/nodes/gallery/1924/gallery_main.jpg"]http://www.underwater.com.au/images/nodes/...allery_main.jpg[/url]



thanks again,



cheers, glen <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/xyxthumbs.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Jazman]

Hi Glen, I use google image search a lot for finding fish pictures, but have never used the scientific name in the search - it's a good idea.



Still trying to ID that fish, the body shape is a lot like a goby, but it's not in any reference books that I have...still looking........

:blink:

[rohan]

Hey Glen, when are you going to get the photos back up on the site? I'm pretty keen to see them.

[glen]

thanks rohan...should have it up and running in about 3 weeks <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />