Mom, I found a stray and brought it home!
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, 07-11-2011 at 12:58 AM (2263 Views)
So I went today for a nice walk down to the reef to get some snails and a few shells with my 4 and 5 year olds. I was more going out there because the kids were driving me batty inside the house and they love going for a walk down onto the reef at low tide and checking out all the crabs and the fish fry that are in the small tidal pools. I normally take a bucket along to collect some snails to add to my cleanup crew that normally go and either crawl out of my tank or they just seem to disappear. As we were about to head back I looked into one of the pools and noticed something moving close to the top of the water as it swam along. I at first thought it was a crab moving over some rocks until I got closer and noticed that the pool was probably about a foot deep and as much as we would like to think, crabs can not walk on water. It was a fish and one that I had not normally seen caught in one of the tide pools. It was a baby tang of only an inch in length! Having the bucket at the ready I dipped it in the pool and was able to easily scoop him/her up. Here are some pics as I could use some help identifying it. I am thinking it is a ringtail of some sort but all of the pics that I can find on the net are deceiving and I can not quite figure out exactly which species I found.