Lethal wrote: yellow banded perch are supposed be common at the Poor Knights? Maybe, I haven't seen one there but only dived there about 10 times or so. have those grouper Peter become tame at all or still shying away from humans? Was at Raoul in 2009 I think. They weren't afraid of us but you couldn't get close enough to hug them - like in that classic picture (Wade Doak?) -stayed about 1m away. We fed them Weetbix - which was the only thing the old man would let us use from the provisions - they ate it but didn't look overly impressed. The Queensland Grouper in Rakiraki was definitely not scared of us. Just swam up to the dive group in the open. I remember trying to get the scale of it at the time- had to be a 6-7 foot. Remember thinking it looked like a goldfish scaled up to massive size! |
Steps wrote: And yes, the second fish is our standard NZ goatfish (Upeneichthys lineatus) it is just a coloured up dominate male. yep that sounds right.. the intensity of the purple stripe across the nose could be explained along those lines, thu the over all colouring is a little different to other goat fish have caught The other is not a granddaddy..have caught and eaten enough... granddaddy doesnt have the brown patches....so would put in the same type of fish as granddaddy/ scorpion type species..... Have been told its a red rock cod.... and matches the pic was shown |
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