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I'll have to try to get some updated shots uploaded. I know I have some but I can't find them in my photobucket. In the meantime here are some photos from when I first got him. I see he had the black stripe at least back then. I guess I'm not that observant!
    
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thanks! very impressive specimen
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03-28-2013, 07:20 PM
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heres some pics i got last night
how do i post them so that they are showed along with text?
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03-28-2013, 11:08 PM
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Whoa, he looks positively pink or purpleish. Now I'm not so sure what he is. It's freakin' gorgeous whatever he is.
Have you tried posting the pictures anywhere else? I'm almost tempted to suggest writing into the folks at webwebmedia.com and showing them the pictures to see what they suggest. If you do, please post back any reply you get. Here are some of their pages with info on eels.. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume.../eels/Eels.htm http://www.wetwebmedia.com/morays.htm
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1) Use a photo hosting site like photobucket.com. photobucket gives you the link for sharing on forums, you just copy and paste and away you go. 2) There is a photoforum on Canreef. I keep forgetting it's there but Titus would love it if more people used that feature. Go up to photopost gallery up there on the top bar and you should be able to upload pictures. As for inserting them inline, if you can copy the address of the file (in the form "http://somethingsomethingsomething.jpg" for example), paste that into your post and enclose it in "img" tags so it looks something like [ img ] http://somethingsomethingsomething.jpg [/ img] and then it should work. 3) Last but not least if you do an attach like you've done, you've already found the paperclip to upload photos. To insert the photos inline, click the paperclip a second time and it will load the image into the spot where your cursor is. It sounds worse than it is, do it a couple times and it gets easier...
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Hallelujah! this is the response i got from wet web media:
Let's see. It's a moray eel and no other type of eel. There are eight small and brown morays known to science to far. Visible on your pics we have a slightly darker rim around the eye and white pores on the jaw. This leaves three species. I think we can rule out G. panamensis, which should be larger after five years and has a slightly different head as well a dorsal fin origin more in direction to the head of the eel. There remain G. atolli (improbable, known only from Hawaii and Midway) and G. australicola (of which also the shape seems to be a perfect fit to your eel). I'd say you got yourself a Gymnothorax australicola (you are very lucky), a rather small moray eel, although I cannot completely outrule G. atolli. They can only be told apart by measuring their preanal length and counting their vertebrae. Nothing you'd like to do on a living specimen. WWM Crew= super awesome crew
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Very nifty. If it positively id's as an australicola, a rare specimen indeed. Only documented since 1992!
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