【Sea Pig Fish】There are many kinds of sea pig fish, colorful colors, gorgeous and colorful, very beautiful. Sea pig fish generally live in 1 to 30 meters of sea areas, prefer to inhabit independent reefs or reef sand mixed areas, and sleep in the sand at night. It has high ornamental value and edible value, and is deeply loved by local people.
Morphological characteristics
The body length is generally 100 to 150 mm. The body color is gorgeous. Flattened body sides. Juveniles are pale grey with uneven dark transverse bands in the center of the body and tail stalk, and eye-like spots in the center of the dorsal fin. After growth, the female gradually turns white on the side of the body, and the head, tail fin and white spots turn bright yellow; the male fish has a bluish brown body, the eye spots disappear, and the head, dorsal fin and tail fin all appear orange red spots or stripes. The caudal fin is truncated.
Characteristics of life
It inhabits coastal reefs and coral seas in the Indo-Pacific seas and is carnivorous, feeding on small animals ( especially small benthic invertebrates ) and sleeping in the sand at night.
delicacies
There are many species of sea pig fish, colorful, both as ornamental fish, in some production areas can also be used as edible fish, because the meat is delicious and tender, rich in nutrition, deeply loved by the local people.