Anyone ever seen an orange baldie??
Submitted by Grooveepants on Sun, 2011-09-25 12:39
Caught this south side of rotto in about 50m a few months back. Is this coloration normal?
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till
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Yeah, think its a sex change
Yeah, think its a sex change thing, look back thru the pics on the site and you see a few orange ones here and there.
millzee
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wouldn't know if he was bald
wouldn't know if he was bald till he took his hat off
Grooveepants
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LOLOLOL
Nice one, liked that.
alfred
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Have picked up a few over the
Have picked up a few over the years. That one is a great table size fish, the head would go down a treat in a fish head claypot dish - Yum!
Adam Gallash
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venus?
Venus tuskfish, pretty much the same but not.
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till
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Oh its a completely serparate
Oh its a completely serparate species? Wow, they look close too.
MattMiller
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Didn't know that one Adam
I've always thought it was a male/female sex change Hermaphrodite kind of thing?
Isn't this a Venus Tuskfish??
Adam Gallash
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yep
That could be it, I was told the venus's were the orange ones, but I'm not so sure now.
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andyh
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iv herd that the venus
iv herd that the venus tuskfish doesnt hav a white chin
Brody
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Definitely caught and seen
Definitely caught and seen Baldies that colour, normally smaller. Not sure about Venus Tuskfish.
carnarvonite
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Age?
Think they grow the orange colour as they get older/ bigger or as Till says due to sex change. Never seen a real big one down south that wasn't orange.
adam87
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I thought the smaller ones
I thought the smaller ones were orange like my profile pic
maybe habitat makes a difference?
Jamos Damokos
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Looks like a baldie to me,
Looks like a baldie to me, seen em that colour orange before also dark brown with bright blue lines on the anal fin and the standard pinky olive sorta colour of the larger models.
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Terry
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seen a few
Caught a few of that colour out from Gero but wont get into any debate re the sex etc etc, or species.
But I must say that I reckon that you should use some sun block on your face.......it's really red you know ...lolol
bod
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try this
Venus Tuskfish vary in colour from green to pale blue to pink and brick red on the upper back but usually all have bright red sides, especially around the pectoral fins, fading to a creamy belly. There are large bright blue spots distributed over the head and body.
Venus Tuskfish grow to 5kgs and 65cms in length.
They are considered very good eating.
Venus Tuskfish are endemic to Australia being found in tropical waters from southern Queensland to the central coast of New South Wales.
Baldchin Groper can vary in colour from yellowish/brown to pinkish/grey to greenish/blue for large males. They are identified by their prominent white chin. They have a short head with a blunt snout and eyes set well above the mouth, which contains protruding tusk-like teeth in both jaws. The pectoral fins are yellow.
Juveniles are orange in colour.
Baldchin Grouper grow to 7kgs and 70cms in length.
They are excellent eating.
Baldchin Groper are endemic to Western Australia, south from Geographe Bay (Dunsborough) north to Coral Bay.
Adam Gallash
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venus
I was always told these were venus tuskies, but more than likely wrong. Been a loooong time since I've seen a southern species... ;)
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bod
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venus tuskfish
Mapped occurrence records
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bod
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baldchin groper
http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/pub/FactSheets/Fisheries%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20Baldchin%20Groper.pdf
can't copy and paste it unfortunately.
quindieselbrad
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personally ive never caught a
personally ive never caught a large baldy that was orange, the biggest orange 1 ive caught was about 50cm and was lighter colour than some of the low to mid 40cm orange 1s ive got,
my opinion is that they loose that orange as they get bigger, some earlier than others possibly depending on depth and bottom type. up north ive landed a lot of small orange 1s 40-45cm off the flat coral bottom but the bigger 1s are all green or pale brown yellow so far...
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micktree
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coral
i herd it was from different ground that u fish. light colour coral light colour fish, weedy rocks darker colour, gravel light colour and so on