Schleich Coral Fish set :-)

I just can't resist these little sets with sand and plants and fish swimming round , so I am happy to show you a few deatils from the set 42327 which was launched now in 2016  

A very pleasing looking box :
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The parts are safely placed in a plastic "drawer". A very good thing, because the fish are very small and can easily get lost when packed a way.
I just wished they had used a little bit better plastic, and much better cardboard.
When you have taken the contents out two or three times, the cardboard box begins to crumble, and the plastic is not very sturdy either...after all children treat suff quite roughly...
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At long last I got the grass/seeweed  
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Isn't this a neat, little sea-diorama ?  
It just struck me that I will have to try combining this set with the eel-set , and see how they work together...I'll do that tomorrow
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The stars are the fish, of course.
I am not completely sure what species they are. Schleich ought to write it on the box  

A surgeon fish :
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A butterflyfish :
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And the cutest, little Nemoo-fish  
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You can see the other three sets here :

Moray eel : [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Purple octupus : [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Wobbegong : [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Oh that's cool. :)  Thanks again for a lovely walk around, Susanne. :)

That's another nice set from Schleich. I also need help to identify them, I identified these on TAi as common clownfish, regal tang and the butterflyfish I was not even able of trying to guess. If anyone knows better what they are, it is appreciated.
Thanks for your great pictures, Susanne!

Roger wrote:

That's another nice set from Schleich. I also need help to identify them, I identified these on TAi as common clownfish, regal tang and the butterflyfish I was not even able of trying to guess. If anyone knows better what they are, it is appreciated.
Thanks for your great pictures, Susanne!

It looks like a Foxface Rabbitfish Siganus vulpinus [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Lovely set Susanne, I do really like their little sets as well, its an opportunity for them to make smaller models they probably wouldn't release by theirselves anyways.

Thankyou, friends

sbell wrote:

It looks like a Foxface Rabbitfish Siganus vulpinus [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

YES ! That's it

sbell wrote:

Roger wrote:

That's another nice set from Schleich. I also need help to identify them, I identified these on TAi as common clownfish, regal tang and the butterflyfish I was not even able of trying to guess. If anyone knows better what they are, it is appreciated.
Thanks for your great pictures, Susanne!

It looks like a Foxface Rabbitfish Siganus vulpinus [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Perfect Sean! Thanks! so one more species was added to TAi. I find the English names very funny actually, I tried to find a badgerface butterflyfish instead but naturally it hasn't worked. By the way, it doesn't even belong to the family Chaetodontidae, usually known as butterflyfish so I could spend my time checking more than 100 species that I could never find it. However, I noticed that some rabbitfish are also called butterflyfish, what a strange world.

Fantastic photos, Susanne! This is a cute little set. I think I'm going to go try finding a set for myself now!

I like this set :)

No problem Roger. Something stuck out for me about what it was. The funny thing is that I thought the name was foxface butterfly fish! Didn't even realize they were different families!

Can I also point out that Schleich really needs to work on their fish textures? Why are these so bumpy? They would have scales, but these kinds of fish tend to be, essentially, smooth! Not as bad as the eel...

Roger wrote:

sbell wrote:

Roger wrote:

That's another nice set from Schleich. I also need help to identify them, I identified these on TAi as common clownfish, regal tang and the butterflyfish I was not even able of trying to guess. If anyone knows better what they are, it is appreciated.
Thanks for your great pictures, Susanne!

It looks like a Foxface Rabbitfish Siganus vulpinus [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Perfect Sean! Thanks! so one more species was added to TAi. I find the English names very funny actually, I tried to find a badgerface butterflyfish instead but naturally it hasn't worked. By the way, it doesn't even belong to the family Chaetodontidae, usually known as butterflyfish so I could spend my time checking more than 100 species that I could never find it. However, I noticed that some rabbitfish are also called butterflyfish, what a strange world.

At the moment i look also for butterflyfishes for the specielist.

Congraatz on this one i like it very much nice photo :)

yep - list is definitely on my purchase list now :-) Thanks for the great walkaround!