Marble Mouth Angler

[thepanfish]

Looks like a zombie, how creepy is that!

[larryandlaura]

Dang thats creepy!

[thepanfish]

Originally Posted by larryandlaura

Dang thats creepy!

Hopefully creepy enough to win!

[MonsterTankMan]

Now that's a face only a mother or father could love lol

[iyachtuxivm]

Originally Posted by MonsterTankMan

Now that's a face only a mother or father could love lol

I am not a mother or a father. He's ultra cute! Hey panfish do you own him?

[thepanfish]

Originally Posted by iyachtuxivm

I am not a mother or a father. He's ultra cute! Hey panfish do you own him?

I would have to in order to enter the contest
Or rather I did, died of bloat a couple weeks after I got him
Nothing much I could do....
You find him cute

[iyachtuxivm]

Originally Posted by thepanfish

I would have to in order to enter the contest
Or rather I did, died of bloat a couple weeks after I got him
Nothing much I could do....
You find him cute

Yes very cute!
Sorry to hear he died. I had one for about a year and he ingested air and also died from bloat.With all the reading I did never came across that info until it happened. I guess its all how you do your research and who you ask. Mine was a typical Antennarius maculatus. Yours looked like a nummifer but hard to tell for sure but with all the frilly camo looks like it.

[thepanfish]

Originally Posted by iyachtuxivm

Yes very cute!
Sorry to hear he died. I had one for about a year and he ingested air and also died from bloat.With all the reading I did never came across that info until it happened. I guess its all how you do your research and who you ask. Mine was a typical Antennarius maculatus. Yours looked like a nummifer but hard to tell for sure but with all the frilly camo looks like it.

Yah, seems to happen quite a bit... What I wanted was an A. pictus but you can't really choose can you...
I've ID'ed mine as a Lophiocharon lithinostomus. It does look like a nummifer and it did have a basidorsal spot but lacked having the second dorsal spine as long as the illicium.
It could also be an Antennarius coccineus, that is more likely.
The Lophiocharon trisignatus looks almost exactly the same but the esca is much more complex.