Sergeant Major from galveston (2 Viewers)

[Guest]

I went to Galveston yesterday and caught about 20 small fish around the jetties. They are about an inch long with white/yellow bodies, with black vertical stripes. My first guess was that they were baby sheepshead or baby atlantic spadefish. They look just like a sergeant major (in comparing them with my Audubon Society Feild Guide). I wasn't completly sure if they lived around here though. They look really cool in the tank though. They give it much more of a tropical look now than the other Galveston fish in there.


-chris

 

[RobertR]

Small Fish

Your description of the small fish you caught yesterday in Galveston sounds kind of like a piggy perch.

 

[Guest]

sergeant major

I'd agree with your indentification of sergeant major (damsel)

 

[Guest]

It's definately not a piggy perch. I've fished all my life and caught plenty of piggy perch. I caught a few juvenile piggy perch in the cast net yesterday too, and these are nothing like them. These fish look exactly like a sergeant major. My only concern or question was if they even lived around here. I'll try and get a picture and get it up on here soon.


-chris

 

[Guest]

they are sergeant majors

 

[Guest]

Yes, we dont have them around here. If you post a picture we can get a more accurate i.d. of it.

 

[Guest]

pictures of fish

These pictures are pretty bad, and the lighting is horrible(hence my other post about lighting). These are all about 3/4 inches long to one inch.


http://www.teamsouthbound.com/pictureprocessor/galleries/viewlargephoto.asp?uid=16993&gallery=250

http://www.teamsouthbound.com/pictureprocessor/galleries/viewlargephoto.asp?uid=16992&gallery=250

 

[FireEater]

We caught some of them on the last collecting trip.

I have one on my tank and he is an eating machine. I went down to the end of the seawall today and collected a bunch of Sargassum Shrimp. He gobbled one down as soon as I threw it in the tank.

He is not growing fast and changes from silver/black to yellow/black periodically.

Mark

 

[Guest]

So are these sergeant majors? So far there have been mixed responses.


-chris

 

[FireEater]

I'm not sure on what they are.

Was waiting on Josh to make on ID on them when we first caught them.

Mark

 

[Guest]

Color says sgt major but the body looks a tad off to me for some reason...

 

[Guest]

Yes, we dont have them around here. If you post a picture we can get a more accurate i.d. of it.

Doh!! I mean we do have them around here.
Yes those are sargeant majors.

Mark, those are different fish then the other ones. I'm gonna ask one of my prof's this week and see what he thinks those other ones were.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for clearing that up. It sounded a little confusing in the first message.

 

[Guest]

Hmm, those don't really look like sargent major's to me. Something does see off about the body shape.

 

[Guest]

I have seen a few 35 miles out at the rigs.....

 

[ebayes11]

well, i'll look for them then when i'm out there tomorrow night

 

[Guest]

This was the only group of them that we found, but we didn't really do much searching. We found them on the only jetty we looked on. It was the first one south of the flagship hotel in Galveston. It was the middle of the day, there was quite a bit of seaweed, and the surf was pretty rough.

Good luck finding some.

Sorry for it sounding so choppy, but my dinner just got ready.

-chris

 

[Guest]

Couldn't find any peppermints tonight.

 

[landfish]

I went down there on Monday and went to the jetty that Josh show us but I did not see any peppermints…… Darn…. I would like to get a few. I did catch some thing that look like a lawn mower blenny. I think he is a sea weed blenny. If so what do they like to eat? Algae I guess? Are they reef tank safe? I will try and post a pic. He is really cool.

 

[Guest]

Where did you catch the blenny at? I've been hoping to find one, but no luck. Was he on the rocks? In the seaweed? How did you catch him, scooping up rocks? At night or day?

Sorry for all the questions, just trying to get a few more fish for my tank.

-chris