August photo of the month Category: Reef Safe Fish

[pnut]

Ok the August photo of the month is here. The category this month is Reef Safe Fish (for example: clowns, tangs, gobies ect...etc...)
Are you asking yourself are you eligible to enter? Well anyone can enter the contest.
RULES: Glance over this quickly for the rules http://www.reeflounge.com/showthread.php?t=21893

Get creative, have fun and post up them pics!!!!!!!!

[chessmanmark]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/chessmanmark/1-05-07011_edited-1.jpg

[Europa]

http://www.infowest.com/personal/m/mindi/731.jpg

[GSELLERS1245]

inspiration
panther grouper
http://k53.pbase.com/o4/35/576935/1/60458124.DPP_2258.jpg

[stevo4535]

Ausome pic Europa, it is composed very well. but wait, are you not allowed to enter bc you are a mod now
?

[Europa]

Ausome pic Europa, it is composed very well. but wait, are you not allowed to enter bc you are a mod now
?
Thanks. I'm not eligible to win, just posting my inspirational photo.

[jxb647]

too bad i'd vote for you;)...

[pnut]

Lets get some pics up there that can win!

[kjreiniger]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c255/kjreiniger/July13070.jpg

I could be wrong but I'm thinking he's hungry

[chessmanmark]

He must have the munchies. Just looking at his fins I feel stoned.

[GSELLERS1245]

beautiful lionfish man, he's coming out of the water for the picture :)

[pnut]

Not trying to be a stickler....but a lion is not a reef fish. Gorgeous pic though. I will be doing one for aggressive fish soon though.

[ibmgeek]

Heres the only picture i could get of my new tang, He see me coming and swims away into rocks.

http://pic30.picturetrail.com/VOL1557/7127623/15758434/269949312.jpg

[stevo4535]

nice pic, i love the sea fan.

[Mike O'Brien]

Reef safe fish, or reef fish ?

Here is a reef fish, but it's not considered reef safe. Same as the Lion.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/Mike0101/_1950207_shark1.jpg

[SATELLITE]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77/sonya24/100_3288.jpg
my clown tang. just have to get a better pict too he is still shy

[kjreiniger]

Doesn't it just have to be in a reef setting for it to be a reef fish.....And it is totally reef safe. Been with my torch, button polyps, crabs and snails for almost 8 months

[Mike O'Brien]

Sure, they don't eat coral. It's their habit of eating the other reef fish that puts them into the not reef safe group.

[kjreiniger]

Can a fish be considered a predator if, in its life span, never gets a chance to eat a fish? Where is the line drawn as far as the food chain. Clownfish, tangs, anemones, and so on all eat some sort of "fish-matter" within the reef at some point. The term Reef-Safe seems a bit broad. Slightly off topic but I think the subscribers to this thread would have the best input.

[GSELLERS1245]

this is also a very highly debatable topic too so nobody lose thier cool :)

[pnut]

Can a fish be considered a predator if, in its life span, never gets a chance to eat a fish? Where is the line drawn as far as the food chain. Clownfish, tangs, anemones, and so on all eat some sort of "fish-matter" within the reef at some point. The term Reef-Safe seems a bit broad. Slightly off topic but I think the subscribers to this thread would have the best input.

Lets not play symantics...this is supposed to be a fun category. I specified the guidelines for the contest. Do I really need to list all of the fish that are excluded from this category? I would certainley hope not.

To make it nice and clear for ever one: REEF SAFE FISH.

None of the following....
Triggers
Lions
Groupers
Sharks
Anglers
Non Reef Safe Wrasses
Eels
Large Angels
Most Butterflys
Rays
etc etc

[ibmgeek]

Hey pnut i havent received my activation email from reeflounge.net. I saw in the rules that you had to upload the pic onto there.

Thanks

[pnut]

Shoot Irisservice or Phistio a PM regarding this.

[ibmgeek]

ok thanks, if you want delete the other post and this one as well. thanks

[kjreiniger]

I think I may be misleading Pnut. The post was not to disrupt the "friendly competition", merely to be educated. I'm sure that many people reading this have been given faulty information (i.e. lionfish, eels, and triggers are reef safe) otherwise there would be no demand for educational sites such as RL. I personally own reef safe fish....just had the impulse of showing off a fish in a reef.

[Seros]

http://www.reeflounge.net/gallery/d/4629-1/100_0700.jpg

[miket]

I will submit my Rotten Tomato in his new GBTA. Just look at that mean old frown!

http://www.socaldivevideos.com/125reef/Tomato_Anemone_sm.jpg

- MikeT

[darktranquility]

here's my entry. This is my little maroon clown. he hates to sit still to have his picture take, but chased the royal gramma away every time he came into the shot.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i292/darktranqui1ity/maroon.jpg

[Mike O'Brien]

My inspirational photo.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/Mike0101/clowns2.jpg

[SATELLITE]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77/sonya24/100_3523.jpg
This is the one i would like to use. the other guy still to shy:)

[stevo4535]

I like that pic, it shows some character

[kjreiniger]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c255/kjreiniger/July13209.jpg

My Pacific Tang.....and his home boys

[pnut]

Nice Tang shot! They can be a huge pain to get good pics of.

LOL, I love the eel in the background!

[GSELLERS1245]

nice....keep em coming!!!!

[MaryLiz]

Still playing with all the features on my camera, but I guess I'll submit this one till I figure it all out.

[GSELLERS1245]

very nice mary...it looks like the focal point is right on the eyeball. Nice its like a shy clown..

[pnut]

Got about another week or so peeps so get 'em up there!

[stevo4535]

here is my clown.
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w312/stevo4535/Picture1054.jpg

[Mantis]

so fun to watch rarely hangs out for pics though http://www.reeflounge.net/gallery/v/Mantis/051.JPG.html

http://www.reeflounge.net/gallery/d/4669-2/051.JPG

(edited: inserted image ~ phistio)

[pnut]

Very nice!

[MaryLiz]

Your Blenny looks just like mine! Are they not the funniest fish ever? They remind me of little dogs. I named mine Toro, like the Lawnmower. I know... I'm a dork. Nice pic!

[GSELLERS1245]

Your Blenny looks just like mine! Are they not the funniest fish ever? They remind me of little dogs. I named mine Toro, like the Lawnmower. I know... I'm a dork. Nice pic!
if you are a dork for naming your fish then i'm a super dork?!

[MaryLiz]

if you are a dork for naming your fish then i'm a super dork?!

Super dork. LOL
I want another tang (Naso or Royal - haven't decided yet) so I can name him "Poon". Get it? Poon-tang? Ha! I kill me!

[GSELLERS1245]

i call my purple lineatus tang, pootie :)

[dragonwrasse81]

heres a pic of my hawk sitting on my toad stool, its his favorite spot.
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa228/draggonwrasse81/DSCF0194.jpg

[GSELLERS1245]

he's dark...

[pnut]

Ok, I will be closing this thread tonight @ midnight and I will create a new poll thread so we can all vote on the entries. If you haven't submitted one yet, you still have time.

[pnut]

Ok thread is now closed look for the poll thread to vote in!