rhino blennies and hog chokers

[pupeluv]

I was just on a website that listed rhino blennies and hog chokers. I have searched several sites looking for descriptions but have not found any. Does anyone have any idea what these might be? There's no picture either. Thanks.

 

[olgakurt]

Here a "hog choker" (Trinectes maculatus) is a small temperate flounder (the ones we netted in grad school were all 4-6"). As you can guess they were bycatch from netters and in the late 1800/early 1900s, people used to use them as food for their pigs. The story is that the fish could fold up in a ball and could choke the pigs.

[ October 02, 2001: Message edited by: olgakurt ]
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[pupeluv]

Very interesting. Thanks a lot. Now I just have to find out what a rhino blenny is. Just curious, I haven't ordered them.

 

[olgakurt]

I haven't heard of the rhino blenny they might be referring to what I have heard as the "marbled blenny" (Paraclinus marmoratus).

I beleive both the fish you are asking about are temperate/sub-tropical and can both be collected off of Florida (as well as occuring more seperately in other areas). Do you recall the website and if that is where it originates?
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[Chucker]

http://www.floridacollector.com/rhino.htm

Amazing what you can find on Google

 

[pupeluv]

That would be the place, Mr. smarty-pants (g). Seems the lfs's are having a super hard time getting seahorses in my area, and rumor has it OR had some kind of a crash in their breeding stock. The local lfs's don't have any kind of time frame for shipment from OR. So even though I'm a captive breeding supporter, I'm looking at the floridacollector site. He's got a very good rep at seahorse.org. Even though I will feel really guilty if I buy wild caught. Anyway, he's got some really good prices on "package" deals, and I just want to make sure it's stuff I can handle before I buy it.

 

[jamesw]

Wow, that looks an aweful lot like the Kelpfish, which is found in southern california. They are really cool fish, I collected and kept some when I was a kid. Very ornate fish...

J