Dear Lord, I'm Going CRAZY!!!

[crimsontsavo]

I NEED to ID a fish.
I live in panama city florida.
There are these blue/black ribbony fish that swim at the surface of the water.They seem to get about 2 ft in length.They look like ribbons/snakes swimming through the water....well.....more like gliding.....please someone tell me what they are! I Am Going CRAZY!!!!!!! LOL. *ALL* *crazysmil

 

[bobrob]

Would it be some sort of water snake?

 

[crimsontsavo]

no, i dont think so.
I really think they are some sort of fish, not a snake.I've seen them in a book or online before....but i cant remember anything about them!
Ya know, they sort of look like those cleaner fish that hang onto sharks.

 

[wayne]

Go to the bookstore and browse books on fishing. We have similar but smaller fish called sand eels, but they're only 4 or 5 inches tops.

 

[1979camaro]

pipefish maybe? or trumpet fish (though i believe they are hawaii specific)

 

[crimsontsavo]

looking up pipefish now...........weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

 

[sugarbear001]

Ramora's?

 

[crimsontsavo]

checking ramoras now,lol.....THATS WHAT I WAS TRYING TO THINK OF SUGAR! (brb,buhahaha!)

 

[sugarbear001]

Your very Welcome I watch to much Discovery Channel sea shows shark week being the main Fav

 

[crimsontsavo]

sigh, i dont think they are Ramoras either, . Someday I'll figure it out,hehehe.

 

[sugarbear001]

ill help you figure it out

 

[crimsontsavo]

thanks.

 

[crimsontsavo]

k, closest ive found are blue ribbon eels...........but that's not them.

 

[sugarbear001]

well ill keep looking tomorrow as its past midnite here and I have school kids to get off to school in the morning

 

[crimsontsavo]

G`night ! and thanks!

 

[druxcyck]

what about a Goby of some sort... my LFS has a Goby that looks much liake an eel

 

[crimsontsavo]

Don't think they are Gobies, but thanks for trying to help.

 

[colesea]

Sharksucker - a memeber of the Echeneididae family of fish, which inclued remoras and suckerfish. I've seen them before too, although I was unsure of which exact speices. They're pretty cool. They look like a remora, with the sucker plate on their head, but they are smaller, with black and white stripes.

I use Peterson's Field Guides, Atlantic Coast Fishes, to ID native marine speices because this book has about everything! The drawings are pen and ink though, and sometimes not in color. Other field guides might help if they have photographs instead of drawing.
~~Colesea