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Photo: Richard Ling www.rling.com Creative Commons
A dark brownish-green coloured fish with narrow darker vertical bands. Slow growing.
- Scientific Name
- Girella tricuspidata
- Habitat
- Found inshore, in habours and estuaries. Fry can be caught early summer around weedy rocks and wharves
- Temperament
- A peaceful fish in a mixed tank. Can be aggressive to its own species as they grow.
- Tank Age/Maturity
- 100 litres but these guys ultimately will need 1,000 litres plus.
- Diet
- In the wild they are primarily a plant eater but will readily adapt to eat everything from flake to mussel flesh, even scraping algae off the rocks in the tank.
- Threatened Species
- N/A
- Special Requirements
- Need room to swim, but these guys as they grow can become quite territorial with new fish.
- Endemic
- N/A
- Size
- 60cm