Fish ID

[scbill]

Newbie Fish ID...
This should be pretty easy but I will post picks If I need to...
Picked up about 5 damsels when I started my tank 6 months ago. I thought I had all their names straight but there was one that slipped my mind. He is about the size of a blue damsel (1inch) all black with a yellow tail. I have googled black damsel, yellow tail damsel with no luck. Maybe it is not a damsel at all and the LFS just told me it was. Anyway, like I said I will post pics if needed....Bill

 

[Rhodes19]

Might be a jeweled damsel.

 

[scbill]

sorry for the blur...he alsmost never stands still.

 

[Ssullivan]

looks like a chromis does that ring a bell?

 

[scbill]

no..solid black.

 

[scbill]

another pic...snuck up from underneath him.

 

[jfourn]

Looks like a chromis

 

[scbill]

I was hoping a could google chromis and find one similar but no luck.
Maybe I will take the picture to the store.

 

[sambrinar]

does it look like this?? Just a guess, mind you.. dorsal fin doesn't look quite right

Saltwater Aquarium Fish for Marine Aquariums: Yellowtail Dascyllus

 

[scbill]

No..could you see my pics Brenda?
This was the first time I posted pics to this board, and was wondering if
they were able to be seen.
Bill

 

[sambrinar]

yea I can, but purdy blurry.. I was just going through LA to see if I could find a black and yellow fish that might have similar markings for ya.. the dorsal fin don't look right on the link I posted.. cant find a damsel or chromis that looks similar.. so IDK

 

[sambrinar]

There is a black and white chromis that looks close, but not yellow on their site

 

[jgsensor]

Try a search on Regal Damsel, I had one that looked like that.

 

[r2d2]

It is very nice looking by the way....

Greetings

 

[Rhodes19]

Nope, not a jewel damsel. maybe a Neopomacentrus azysron
Yellowtail damsel

Google Image Result for http://www.ultimatereef.net/iddb/images/fish/damsels/damsel16.jpg

 

[sneaks03]

Yeah my LFS just got a school of about 5 of them in. Very pretty fish.

 

[SiNiStEr NaTiOn]

scbill I was looking around last night on that damsel and with google I didn't have any luck, but with bing I had 1 result out of thousands and check it out. but there was no pics, but location. and from what I can see in those pics it looks close to what i read. That they are similiar to the yellowtail blue damsel, except they are black instead of blue, and they are located in the phillipines, from what i read they are called yellowtail black damsel.
But I also read somewhere that yellowtail blue they can change to black as sign of aggression, or because his enviroment had change and in due time return back to blue.

I wish i could provide links to what i read last night, but I was doing my search around 2am EST and was really tired, and using different word combo in the search on google and bling.

If you don't know what bling is, it's a new search engine by your truly M$. and it's good, but I still do all my searches on google and use bling as a backup engine.

 

[scbill]

Thanks to all..lol I thought I had a common damsel that lots of people start out with. Turns out I might have something that is actually hard to find. Will update the thread If I ever find definitive proof of what this guy is. Thanks again to all. Bill

 

[Boomer]

I be willing to bet it is not a Yellowtailed Damsel as the caudal peduncle ( the base of the tail not the fins on the tail) has no yellow. It looks more like a Neopomacentrus cyanomus, Regal damsel. So, credit think goes to jgsensor.

 

[codeh27]

pretty fish