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What's your go-to site or app to identify fish?
Main Post: What's your go-to site or app to identify fish?
Top Comment: I've messed around with a few - iNaturalist/seek, google lens, fishbrain. Google lens works really well for common North American gamefish and common aquarium fish. But for example, with this fish (which is a hybrid), it gets it wrong by calling it a bluegill. iNaturalist is the best because real people are able to confirm or dispute the ID and there are now lots of experts using it.
How do you learn to identify fish?
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The people in this sub blow me away with their skills - is there a good resource I can use to learn to identify many species myself?
Top Comment: I've always liked looking at fish so I do it as often as I can—at pet stores, public aquaria, snorkeling, on TV, you name it. After awhile I started noticing similarities with different species so (back in the pre-internet days) I got Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes and Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes to learn more about taxonomy. Just like I did with motorcycles, going over all the pages multiple times and remembering the different kinds (I have a good visual memory) it just stuck
Fish ID
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It's I believe a tetra from the Rio Negro based on the video I was watching. The fish was not identified by the narator.
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Okay I bullied my partner a bit and he tries to find out what fish this is. He is like a Sheldon when it comes to fish.
Do you remember the name of the documentary?
He believes it could be a tetra but he wants better pictures. Guess I just showed him for the first time a fish he can't 100% identify.
Fish identification?
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We found it beached next to jetty rocks, in a cove. Picked him up and he was alive and flapping. North San Diego County. I am stumped!! Look how the dorsal goes all the way to the tail.
We let it go and it swam away.
Top Comment: Pacific pompano
Fish identifying app?
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Anyone use anything to identify fish they see or a checklist to play a "see them all" type game? Seems like it's just regional books mainly...
Top Comment: I go to cozumel all the time and have been carrying this laminated card in my dive log (about half of letter sized sheet) with the marine life, it’s this one or very similar to it: https://www.amazon.com/Cozumel-Creatures-Guide-Franko-Laminated/dp/1601904231/ref=nodl _ I think I can recognize most of the more common and the more special ones on sight but it’s still handy and makes for good conversation at lunch breaks between dives.
Fish ID?
Main Post: Fish ID?
Top Comment: Where did you see them? That could help narrow it down. It’s definitely a carp or sucker species. If I had to guess, they’re black carp, but the coloring on the sides makes me think Northern Hog Sucker
needing fish ID
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wanting an ID on this baby fish. Located Victoria Australia. Has a black bar along his tail. Found in the plant tank at work (pet store) where no fish are kept, so assuming it hatched from an egg. Presuming possibly something they use in the plant farms to control mosquitos?
Top Comment: It looks like a common comet goldfish, but just haven't changed colors yet.