Juvenile French Angel collected locally

[bjgf15]

Here is a picture I took of a juvenile French angel cleaning a rockhind grouper

[allan]

its almost like its dancing

My wife would tell you that I dance much in the same fashion as this fish does...

[Marlin]

I've seen many juvenile French angels while diving in Cozumel and they swim like that all the time.

Rick

[msmith619]

If you have another trip lined up and happen to collect another juvenile French angel, I would love to put one in my 125 tank. They are my favorite angelfish. I can donate to offset the collection expenses.

[bjgf15]

If you have another trip lined up and happen to collect another juvenile French angel, I would love to put one in my 125 tank. They are my favorite angelfish. I can donate to offset the collection expenses.

I'm not sure that I'll be out again this year since winds are starting to pick up already this fall and the Gulf is no fun when there is 4-7ft chop. If I do go, I will collect some more fish before the water temperature drops too low and kills them off.

[Squiers007]

Very cool, when will you be finishing? I would love to come watch your dissertation defense. I just started the Ph.D. program at TAMUCC in Marine Biology so I've got a couple years to go, but its always nice to meet others in the area that share my interests in aquaria as well as marine biology.

No problem,
I am finishing my PhD at UT's Marine Science Institute and I work on Predator/prey interactions among reef fish and planktonic prey.

[dmweise]

After watching that video I think I know how you caught him. He seems to need some sort of physical therapy to show him how to swim properly.

Has he always swam like that? My dwarf angels do not move a lot like that when swimming.

[bjgf15]

After watching that video I think I know how you caught him. He seems to need some sort of physical therapy to show him how to swim properly.

Has he always swam like that? My dwarf angels do not move a lot like that when swimming.

Yes, the fish has always swam like that, as have all the other juvenile french angels I have ever seen. I did not target a handicapped fish (which by the way would have been eaten long before becoming a juvenile) ;)
And trust me, they are no easier to catch than any other fish on the rig. They can move very fast when they want to. Your pygmy angel is in a completely different genus than the French angelfish so no surprise that they would swim differently

I actually eluded to their unusual swimming pattern in a earlier post on this thread.

[dmweise]

Yes, the fish has always swam like that, as have all the other juvenile french angels I have ever seen. I did not target a handicapped fish (which by the way would have been eaten long before becoming a juvenile) ;)
And trust me, they are no easier to catch than any other fish on the rig. They can move very fast when they want to. Your pygmy angel is in a completely different genus than the French angelfish so no surprise that they would swim differently

I actually eluded to their unusual swimming pattern in a earlier post on this thread.

I found the following video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvyA9x6Nb7I

Your angel swims a lot like one of the ones here. Seems like it may be a natural swim pattern for some of them at a certain age.

[Crazyeyes]

That is very cool what you do, surprised that you haven't found a toad fish or a stone fish there at port a.