In need of an artist help

sweet dude! I've always wanted to do the same! But it's been years since I've had a tattoo. I've been making the decision to buy more aquarium stuff rather than tats! lol Tough call!
I would get a blue ring octopus, melenurus wrasse, rhinopias scorpion fish. I also love sw game fish, I would get a dolphin fish (mahi), marlin/sail/wahoo (some type of mackerel). Or I would love to have a sleeve of a New England rocky shore community at low tide, where theres like rocks and a pisaster star eating the clusters of mussels and ulva sea weed and barnacles! Or you could do an ironic one where you have an orange shoulder tang on your shoulder! lol Flying gurnards or grayling are really cool. I also love salmonids, I would have a bull trout or a steel head. Or like a muskie! Big ol bastards with teeth! Man IDK.....I just like all fish....you could do a flounder or a halibut. I would probably do a whole fishing schooner with gear deployed on my left shoulder blade. This is tough decision where to start! .....A miniatus grouper!
Good luck man!

 

Flamboyant Cuttlefish, seahorses, and pipefish are pretty cool too. If you really wanted some cool examples, you should pick up Discovery Channel's "Planet Earth" and watch "The Blue Planet". There's some really cool stuff on there.

http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Earth-Blue-Special-Collectors/dp/B000TEUSQ8

It might be cheaper somewhere else, I just wanted to show you the DVD set I was talking about, it was on Animal Planet last night!

 

i would say that if your looking for some real looking fish and stuff i would say you might want to check out a guy named Dave Conners from mid air and ink downtown Des Moines i have seen him do some African animal sleeves on a arm and leg of a husband and wife that are unreal! Dave's link with some of the animal tattoo's http://midairandink.com/Dave/page/2/

 

wartskin angler, painted angler google them very neat fish and imo would be a neat tat different color varieties

 

Sweet and I hope you have an awesome birthday Monday!! Although not uncommon, a harlequin tusk and harlequin shrimp/sexy shrimp are way cool! Cuttlefish and anglers are cool too! Good luck and post up a pic after you get the tat!

 

My right forearm is Mr. Krabs and Ernie and Bernie the jellies from Shark Tale. My right leg, shin to calf is a Rock Beauty. Keep this in mind, unless the artist is REALLY good or your happen to have the right skin, yellows and white(especially white) seem to be notorious for getting pushed out. I can only seem to keep white in if its not the base color.

 

I see alot of people with nautical stars on their elbows, I think an awesome look would be some kind of star(marine) instead. Perhaps a General Star since they are blood red or perhaps some sort of fromia species or even a crown of thorns. I would say brittle/bristle but not on a point of articulation of the body because of the length of arms and smaller round body size might look goofy.

Just to put another bug in your brain, ribbon eels...