Monday, February 25, 2008

Stoplight Parrot Fish

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Trying to paint this guy two inches long. Below, he's upside down biting some algae or something to eat off the coral rock. Parrot fish are named that because their two front teeth, upper and lower, are fused together, and look rather like a beak. Vegetarians, they 'graze' the coral reef.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 2, 2008 at 8:48 PM

    What a lovely fish. How big in real life?

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  2. AnonymousMarch 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM

    "The book says," a maximum of two feet, but in my twenty years in the Caribbean I've never seen one nearly that big. I'd say most of them are a foot to fifteen inches. They're really pretty, but so big and common that the photographers don't much bother with them!

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  3. AnonymousApril 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM

    Nice paintings !!! Keep it up.

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