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We just finished a vacation in the South Pacific out of Tahiti and during our dives we saw thousands of light blue iridescent fish schooling together. The were slender and reminded me of an anthias. They were not chromis (we saw those as well). Any idea what they could have been?
 

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I'm interested to look them up and see what you're talking about.
 
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There were 1000s of them. Assuming they max out at that size, I think they would make a great tank fish.
 

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There were 1000s of them. Assuming they max out at that size, I think they would make a great tank fish.
Did you try looking around Google to see if you could identify them?
 
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Yes, I google image searched everything I could think of and did not find a match.
 

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Do you remember if they had yellow tails or not?

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I got a picture from one of the guys that dove with us!!!!
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So what are these guys? Even though they look purple in the photo, they were blue in person.
 

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They look like psuedanthias tuka to me. Body structure and tail.
 
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Either tuka or pascalus. Not very easy to keep initially.
 
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Do they get big? All of the ones we saw were just a few inches long.
 

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Wingnut has one and it's gorgeous. I plan to get one the next time I see one.
 

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They are poor shipper and hard to start to eat. Baby brine shrimp is good start food. After 3-4 months can introduce pellets.
 
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Here is s better picture. It may have just been the lighting but when diving they looked blue without any other colors on them. Do you still think this is the same fish?
 

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Here is s better picture. It may have just been the lighting but when diving they looked blue without any other colors on them. Do you still think this is the same fish?

This is a good read.
Awesome Fish Spotlight: Who took a tuka and made it pascalus? Anthias, awesome fish spotlight, henry doorly zoo, Magazine, News, pseudanthias, Public Aquariums, Saltwater Fish Reef Builders | The Reef and Marine Aquarium Blog

I bought tuka/pascalus from 3 different LFS. They all have different patterns. They look slightly different depends on the region where they came from. And they do change once mature.
 
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