Guess these fish!

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I follow a number of foreign fish suppliers on Facebook. One, EZMarine Taiwan, posts pictures of newly acquired fish, but the text is in Chinese. I run it through a translator with interesting results. Can you ID these fish from their translated names? The first line is a major clue.

American artificial fish species
Yellow Triangle Hanging upside down 3-4
Golden wire fox
American Strawberry
Cuban strawberries

Jay

 

[Troylee]

Bat fish
Fox face
Anthias
Kole tang
Lol.. no idea.. just what pops in my head when I read the names and think of the colors

 

[Gtinnel]

The first thing that came to mind for the first one was pyramid butterfly and the second one was foxface. The other two I had no guess.
I went and looked at their Facebook post and saw that I am wrong on both.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Bat fish
Fox face
Anthias
Kole tang
Lol.. no idea.. just what pops in my head when I read the names and think of the colors

Foxface is close, same family. The other three were a swing and a miss (grin).

Jay

 

[i cant think]

I follow a number of foreign fish suppliers on Facebook. One, EZMarine Taiwan, posts pictures of newly acquired fish, but the text is in Chinese. I run it through a translator with interesting results. Can you ID these fish from their translated names? The first line is a major clue.

American artificial fish species
Yellow Triangle Hanging upside down 3-4
Golden wire fox
American Strawberry
Cuban strawberries

Jay

I want to say butterfly for the first one but if it’s not right as above said then my next vote goes to a yellow tang.
Some species of Siganus (Possibly S. guttatus from the gold remark)
Possibly a link to the origin so a species of basslet, maybe the Brazilian Basslet (Gramma braziliensis) as I think red from strawberries so maybe a hint to the purple colouring.
Again a potential link to an origin so maybe the Cuban Basslet (Gramma dejongi) as I don’t think anything else has a name with Cuban at the start.

 

[Mschmidt]

nope. never would have gotten those from the translated names. even looking at them I dont know what the Golden wire fox is.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I want to say butterfly for the first one but if it’s not right as above said then my next vote goes to a yellow tang.
Some species of Siganus (Possibly S. guttatus from the gold remark)
Possibly a link to the origin so a species of basslet, maybe the Brazilian Basslet (Gramma braziliensis) as I think red from strawberries so maybe a hint to the purple colouring.
Again a potential link to an origin so maybe the Cuban Basslet (Gramma dejongi) as I don’t think anything else has a name with Cuban at the start.

Yep - yellow tang, rabbitfish, royal gramma and Cuban gramma - they apparently just got a shipment in from Biota

Jay