New frogfish

[Gordonious]

I'm trying to get a positive ID to species of my new frog fish and I was hoping you could help. I tried to get images that showed it's overall body structure and esca well.

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I noticed a contradition to what you said on the use of copper on wet web media here.
"Know that you can NOT use copper in any way, shape, or form with frogfishes. " I don't see any reason to use copper at the moment, but it would be nice to know in the future.

It is in qt now, but the tank I am setting up for it will be a standard 30g plumbed to my reef system with close to 200g total in it. I am going to try to get lots of peices of colorfull LR. I'm debating on using the substrate you see it on now, or Fiji Pink Aragalive. It should be ok if I added some zoos, leathers, and other hardy soft corals with it later right? I wouldn't add anything that would be bothered by it resting on them, or anything that is known for a lot of chemical warfair or stinging.

 

[loohunter]

no idea but he is super cool

 

[Gordonious]

Thank you. I've been hunting for one that really matches LR for a while. I got him/her from Fraggle Rock. I think I am going to call it Seager, pronounced "Seger".

 

[Reefreak]

From the picture I would say its one of the many variations of Antennarius Pictus

Don't use copper with Frogfish. However, they are quite disease resistant.

Cool looking fish good luck with it.

 

[angelfish]

agree with Reefreak,
it's Variant frogfish (Antennarius Pictus)

 

[brady816]

love the fish man reminds me of my leaf scorpion fish

 

[Anthony Calfo]

no way to ID from pics reliably... at all. You need to study your specimen and compare it to the notes in a proper scientific ID like fishbase.org (plug in the supposed genera for starters and you will see species to compare to)

 

[rjarnold]

That is Lophiocharon trisignatus - guaranteed.

 

[rjarnold]

Oop, don't mean to sound snobbish. I'm trained to ID these guys though - of course that doesn't mean I can ID all of them by picture, as the A.pictus group definitely needs fin-ray counts. However, this is how I know it's Lophiocharon trisignatus:

Morphology (over-all shape - this is hard if you haven't studied all the genera)
Long illicium with small esca (long lure with small bait)
Most importantly, and the easiest way for any hobbyist to ID a Lophiocharon - the clear spots on the tail fin. Only the genus Lophiocharon has clear spots like that, and only L. trisignatus has a long lure with esca.

 

[sihaya]

What a cool fish! I love these guys (frogfish). I like how each one is unique and how they appear to "walk." They're just so tripy it's awesome.

 

[rjarnold]

Better pic of the tail of Lophiocharon.