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Juvenile beauties: Is there a juvenile fish that you wish wouldn't grow up?
Many marine fish enter the aquarium hobby as juveniles - these fish are not recently hatched fry nor sexually mature adults. Some of these have attractive coloration, patterning, and even behavior but often lose these qualities as they mature. For example, the blueface angelfish (Pomacanthus xanthometopon) with its juvenile coloration that fades with age, the Spanish hogfish (Bodianus rufus) acts as a cleaner fish as a juvenile, the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) can grow over 10 feet long but is sold at smaller sizes. Would you prefer fish that never grew up and retained their juvenile qualities? If so, tell us which juvenile fish you would want to try in the thread below and tell us why!
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A special thanks to @WheatToast for their suggestion and material for today’s question of the day. If you have recommendations that you would like to be considered for QOTDs in the future, please send me a PM. Thanks!
Many marine fish enter the aquarium hobby as juveniles - these fish are not recently hatched fry nor sexually mature adults. Some of these have attractive coloration, patterning, and even behavior but often lose these qualities as they mature. For example, the blueface angelfish (Pomacanthus xanthometopon) with its juvenile coloration that fades with age, the Spanish hogfish (Bodianus rufus) acts as a cleaner fish as a juvenile, the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) can grow over 10 feet long but is sold at smaller sizes. Would you prefer fish that never grew up and retained their juvenile qualities? If so, tell us which juvenile fish you would want to try in the thread below and tell us why!
Public domain image from Wikipedia
A special thanks to @WheatToast for their suggestion and material for today’s question of the day. If you have recommendations that you would like to be considered for QOTDs in the future, please send me a PM. Thanks!
they weren't lying when they said all fish are jumpers, i'll post some pics of all my boxfish later.
