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Showing posts with label Saltwater Fish. Show all posts

French Angel Fish

The French angelfish is common in shallow reefs, usually in pairs, often near sea fans. It feeds on sponges, algae, bryozoans, zoantharians, gorgonians and tunicates. Juveniles tend cleaning stations where they service a broad range of clients, including jacks, snappers, morays, grunts, surgeonfishes, and wrasses. At the station the cleaner displays a fluttering swimming and when cleaning it touches the clients with its pelvic fins.

Coloration in adults is black, the scales of the body, except those at the front from nape to abdomen, being rimmed with golden yellow; a broad orange-yellow bar at pectoral absent; dorsal filament yellow; chin whitish; outer part of iris yellow; eye narrowly rimmed below with blue. Juveniles are black with vertical yellow bands.

Reproduction is oviparous and these species are monogamous. Spawning pairs are strongly territorial, with usually both members vigorously defending their areas against neighboring pairs.

Its flesh is considered good quality and it is marketed fresh. It has been reared in captivity.
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Fiji Blue Devil Fish

Aquarists are fascinated by the South Sea Demoiselle's brilliant, gorgeous colors. Under the sun the blue reflects neon-like colors of bright greenish-blue.This species will keep its brilliant blue in the aquarium, but it may become darker or deep blue on occasion, depending on conditions.

Many of the Chrysiptera damsels are lavishly colored and eye-catching, but some are called “Devils”, because of their extraordinary aggressiveness and quarrelsome behavior. These scrappy fish cannot be housed with colorful butterflyfish, small angelfishes, and often others of their own species.
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Clown Trigger

The Clown Trigger fish has a dramatic coloration, making this species a most sought after addition to the home aquarium. The Clown Trigger fish is found along the inner and outer portions of a reef in the wild, wherever shellfish and other invertebrates are found.

Among the most colorful, the Clown Trigger fish is also one of the most aggressive commonly kept inhabitants of an aquarium. Care should be taken in selecting its tank mates, choosing other aggressive, large fish. The tank decor should also be chosen based on the propensity of the Clown Trigger fish to rearrange it.

The Clown Trigger fish needs a varied diet of meaty foods including; squid, krill, clams, small fish and hard shelled shrimp to help wear down their ever growing teeth.

Pasific Blue Tang

The Blue Tang is also known as the Regal Tang, Blue Surgeonfish, and Indo-Pacific Blue Tang. This gorgeous fish is readily available, easy to keep, and is very interesting to watch. We knew of one that would spend time everyday in play, chasing bubbles from the bottom of the aquarium to the top!

Moray Eel

Moray eels Moray eels generally hide under coral heads or in holes during the daylight. They are curious by nature and can often be lured from their holes enough for the divers to get good looks or even "pet".

They look threatening, but this is undeserved reputation, which must constantly move their jaws open and closed to aid the flow of water over their gills. Moray eel skin is smooth as silk and viscose to the touch - if you're lucky enough to find one that tolerates touch.

Hawkfish

This colorful hawkfish nano (also known as hawkfish Falco, in this case about 2 inches long) is perched on a spur Coral Reef Monitoring of the dam.

Hawkfish seem to follow divers around, darting from perch to perch, keeping their distance just out of reach. When the occasion, like a piece of rock fragments invested, the dart hawkfish before looking ahead beyond the area disturbed by a fast-food.

Mandarin Fish

A fish is legendary among divers and aquarists, this beautiful mandarin fish, dragonet or Mandarin, is a member of the family dragonet (Callionymidae), which consists of about 125 species.

The name is derived from Mandarin mandarin fish color silk robes of the 19th century. Resemble blennies and gobies, and are often called mandarines governments, for this reason, even if blennies and gobies are not in the same family of fish. Although quite common, slow, difficult to detect because they are small, timid, and bottom-dwelling.

Mandarin fish are large, brightly colored wings, and are usually in search of small crustaceans and other invertebrates messy at the bottom or on the reef heads. They can grow to about 2.4 inches (6 cm), and are found in most parts of the Indo-West Pacific, including Indonesia, Australia and New Guinea.

Leaf Fish

Have a piece of colorful fish that make the patterns look like a sponge covered with algae. Such poisonous fish to be seen in a wide range of colors, including pink, yellow, white (or white) and black, just to name a few I've seen.

As with other scorpionfish, leaf fish reef cruise like other fish - move suddenly, and only long enough to find a perch from which to observe the potential victims. Waiting patiently, gently dominates one side of the current, perhaps simulating a light piece of debris on coral reefs. Smaller than most of the reef scorpionfish is 3 1 / 2 inches in length, nearly the maximum length of 100 cm (four inches). Leaf fish are also known as "fish."

Lion Fish

The lion fish belongs to the family of the scorpion fish. This colorful fish is usually found in coral reefs, particularly in waters hovering in caves or in the vicinity of cracks. Lion-fish are venomous fin spines that can produce painful puncture wounds.

The fish have elongated dorsal fin spines and enlarged pectoral fins, and each species has a particular model as zebra stripes. A person who aims to be one of the strong spine immediately felt sharp pain. Rapid swelling of the affected body area develops along the possibility of movement of the limbs very difficult. Lion-fish stings can cause nausea, difficulty breathing, paralysis, seizures and collapse.

Even death can occur in exceptional circumstances. Most of the people to survive despite the great pain. The poison in the spines remains active for days, so even discarded spines should be treated with caution. It may take several months for a full recovery and, if the sting is left untreated, can develop gangrene.

Puffer Fish

The Tetraodontidae is primarily a family of marine and estuarine fish. The family includes many different species that are known called puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, Globefish, swellfish, toadfish and Toadies.

They are morphologically similar to porcupinefish closely related, which have large conspicuous spines (unlike the small, almost like sandpaper Tetraodontidae-bones).

The scientific name, Tetraodontidae, refers to the four large teeth, fused in a flat top and bottom, which are used to crush the shells of crustaceans and mollusks, their natural prey.

Dorado Fish

Dorado means gold in Spanish. Is a name for a fish that can turn a bright gold along the sides, but they are generally bright greenish blue along the back and have liberal amounts of blue spots and the pectoral fins are very bright Electric blue.


Dorado is one of the most successful and fish are found in tropical waters worldwide. In Australia and most of the Atlantic, the species is named Dolphin (not be confused with a family of marine mammals of the same name). In Hawaii they are called Mahi Mahi. Dorados are the major fly fishing rod for a variety of reasons. They are very strong and acrobatic.

Bicolor Blenny

The bicolor blenny (Ecsenius bicolor) is a bit interesting seafloor-dwelling fish.

This fish is called the bicolor blenny because his face is blue half brown on the back and half is yellow or orange.

It belongs to the family Blenniidae. All members of this family have cut projections protruding from their heads called cirri.

Bicolor blennies are from the Indo-Pacific, where they feed on seaweed.

These are small fish, reaching only about 3.5-4 inches (9-10 cm) in length. They are generally peaceful, but did not get along with other bottom-dwelling fish or the other members of their species because these can be territorial blennies. However, consistent with a male-female couple can usually be successfully maintained.
 

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