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Rare Fish Gallery

Contents 1 Rare Fish Gallery 1.1 Description 1.2 Gallery configuration file 1.3 Gallery information 1.4 Fish images and descriptions 1.4.1 Snakehead fish 1.4.2 Red Lion Fish 1.4.3 Angler Fish 1.4.4 Fangtooth Fish 1.4.5 Coffinfish 1.4.6 Frogfish 1.4.7 Toadfish 1.4.8 Viperfish 1.4.9 Bobbit Worm 1.4.10 Giant Sturgeon 1.4.11 Oar Fish 1.4.12 Lamprey 1.4.13 Portugese Man-of-War 1.4.14 Wolffish 1.4.15 Stonefish 1.4.16 Crown-of-Thorns Starfish 1.4.17 Barreleye Fish 2 References

Description

The file gallery.swf is a flash-based photo slider that contains images of a variety of rare fish. Each image in the slider has a description of the fish and a link to the photo source.

Gallery configuration file

Decompiling the Flash file^[1] reveals that it acquires information about what pictures/information to display from http://www.hooklineandminker.com/config.xml?nocache=x, where "x" is a number between 0 and 100000000 randomly selected by the Flash client. (The inclusion of the "nocache" parameter within the URL is used to make sure that the XML file is never loaded from the browser's cache. This is a common technique and should not be interpreted as being significant.)

Gallery information

Title:	PHOTO SLIDER
Subtitle:	HERE ARE SOME COOL AQUARIUM AND NON-AQUARIUM FISH!

Fish images and descriptions

Snakehead fish

	Title:	SNAKEHEAD FISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/snakehead.jpg
	Description:	When food is scarce they are known to venture out of the water in search of prey.
	Credit:	photo credit: Stephen Messenger

Red Lion Fish

	Title:	RED LION FISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/redlion.jpg
	Description:	Every spine of the lionfish is venomous, and their venom is extremely painful.
	Credit:	photo credit: Lala live2

Angler Fish

	Title:	ANGLER FISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/anglerfish.jpg
	Description:	This fish has a special lighted fin that acts as a 'fishing rod' to lure in prey to get eaten.
	Credit:	photo credit: Bruce Robison, National Geographic

Fangtooth Fish

	Title:	FANGTOOTH FISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/fangtooth.jpg
	Description:	The fangtooth has the largest teeth in proportion to its body size of any other ocean fish.
	Credit:	photo credit: photo credit: Phil Livelsberger

Coffinfish

	Title:	COFFINFISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/coffinfish.jpg
	Description:	The coolest thing about the coffinfish is the fact that they walk along the ocean floor.
	Credit:	photo credit: Words Without

Frogfish

	Title:	FROGFISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/frogfish.jpg
	Description:	This is one sly fish they use mimicry and camouflage to either hide from predators or look like a potential meal for their prey.
	Credit:	photo credit: FPTravels

Toadfish

	Title:	TOADFISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/toadfish.jpg
	Description:	The Oyster toadfish has a distinctive "foghorn" sound that is used to attract females in the mating season.
	Credit:	photo credit: Clay Coleman

• The clue "Bring the Foghorn and the unexpected title." refers to this fish and the foghorn sound it makes.

Viperfish

	Title:	VIPERFISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/viperfish.jpg
	Description:	These guys have sharp fangs and large mouths so there's no need to chase food, they can just catch it.
	Credit:	photo credit: Widder/HBOI

Bobbit Worm

	Title:	BOBBIT WORM
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/bobbitworm.jpg
	Description:	The Bobbit worms sharp teeth and speed can sometimes cut it’s prey in half. It grows up to 9.8 ft.,the length of an Anaconda.
	Credit:	photo credit: Max Gibbs

Giant Sturgeon

	Title:	GIANT STURGEON
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/sturgeon.jpg
	Description:	The Sturgeon is the largest fresh water fish, it’s been known to weigh up to 4,400 lbs.
	Credit:	photo credit: Three Gorges Probe

Oar Fish

	Title:	OAR FISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/oarfish.jpg
	Description:	These fish can grow up to 50 ft. long and are often mistaken for sea monsters.
	Credit:	photo credit: Alan Thompson

Lamprey

	Title:	LAMPREY
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/lamprey.jpg
	Description:	The Lamprey is sort of like a vampire but with a lot more teeth. It’s equipped with a mouth shaped like a funnel and sucks the blood of other fish.
	Credit:	photo credit: Steve Davies

Portugese Man-of-War

	Title:	PORTUGESE MAN-OF-WAR
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/manofwar.jpg
	Description:	These sea creatures are infamous for their very painful, powerful sting.
	Credit:	photo credit: Adam Laverty

Wolffish

	Title:	WOLFFISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/wolffish.jpg
	Description:	Also known as the Seawolf, has tons of teeth, up to six fang-like teeth in front, rows of crushing teeth in back and don't forget the throat which is scattered with serrated teeth!
	Credit:	photo credit: Florin Nedelcu

Stonefish

	Title:	STONEFISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/stonefish.jpg
	Description:	The body is equipped with venom glands that produce the most deadly fish venom, it can kill any human unlucky enough to tread on the spines.
	Credit:	photo credit: SeanMack

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

	Title:	CROWN-OF-THORNS STARFISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/starfish.jpg
	Description:	This is the most dangerous species in the coral reef Eco-System, if it does not kill you, you will have a bad case of nausea and vomiting.
	Credit:	photo credit: Jon Hanson

Barreleye Fish

	Title:	BARRELEYE FISH
	File:	http://www.hooklineandminker.com/images/barreleye.jpg
	Description:	The barreleye has a see-through head and tunnel vision.
	Credit:	photo credit: 2004 MBARI

References

1. ? Thanks to AzureWolf for decompiling the Flash and explaining "nocache".