Identify my fish

[seashinesunshine]

[/ATTACH][/ATTACH][/ATTACH]This might be a long shot since I took the pictures off a video and they aren't very good, but I have been curious as to what kind of fish this is. Found off the coast of St Lucia between the port and the Pitons. The fish was the size of a tang, bright blue with dots all over it. The dots are different colors inside and all ringed by white.

[seashinesunshine]

Ok, the pictures turned out much smaller than I thought they would. I will try getting zoomed in on the fish more then reposting them.

[mefinephotoman]

I think it might be a midnight damsel fish. Google it and check out images. I don't think I have seen one quite as large as a tang but close. Juvenile will have a yellow tail which turns more transparent with age.

[seashinesunshine]

I think it might be a midnight damsel fish. Google it and check out images. I don't think I have seen one quite as large as a tang but close. Juvenile will have a yellow tail which turns more transparent with age.

 

YES! Thank You! I have done some asking around, and no one has seemed to believe me that the spots are different colors and that it can be bright royal blue, but the other pictures I saw when I Googled Damsel Fish showed the same! Yay! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

[WonderingWanderer]

I think it might be a midnight damsel fish. Google it and check out images. I don't think I have seen one quite as large as a tang but close. Juvenile will have a yellow tail which turns more transparent with age.

 

Yes. BTW, this is my favorite online guide: http://reefguide.org/carib/index3.html

[seashinesunshine]

Yes. BTW, this is my favorite online guide: http://reefguide.org/carib/index3.html

 

Thanks!

[perfect match]

Yes. BTW, this is my favorite online guide: http://reefguide.org/carib/index3.html

 

Thanks for posting the link to your favorite guide. Seems like it will be pretty easy to navigate, and I'm always finding fish I haven't seen before.

[mitsugirly]

The pictures are very hard to see since they are so small. But it's definitely a damselfish (as someone has already said). I have taken several pictures of a fish like this, but it has a yellow tail fin and it was a yellow tail damselfish. :D I believe I read once that the ones without the yellow tail might be the juvenille ones? I may be wrong.

 

There was a thread I started awhile back and it has tons of fish that I have found while snorkeling in it and their names. It might help you out if you have others you are looking for.

 

Click HERE

[ososlocos]

Thanks for the reefguide link. Awesome site for identification.

[sparkinator]

 

They also call them Jewel fish because of obvious reasons. I took this pic in the Keys, and was fascinated by it. They really are beautiful fish. When they mature, the yellowtail damsel fish will sometimes still have the spots around the eyes and the dorsal fin, but isn't nearly as beautiful as when they were a juvenile.