Parrot Fish
Posted on June 17th, 2008
Found largely on shallow reefs and flow of the tides in Atlantic, the Red Sea, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the tropical marine parrotfish are surprisingly beautiful and categorised in a tropical marine life from the family Scaridae. The smallest species can reach the longest 20 cm in length. The always ride along the shallow waters of which depth is less than 70 meters.
Parrotfish are named for their oral dentition thanks to their interesting characters with many large teeth resembling a parrot’s beak and are used to rub algae from corals. They have bright colours of green, red, blue and yellow with long bodies and big heads. However, the male, female and juvenile parrotfish are hugely different in the bright coloration and coloration patterns. The fish are not very popular in an aquarium.
One of the fish’s unique characteristics is they sleep at the bottom of the reef at night while they like to shelter in shallow waters. Also, some species will defend themselves from the predators by burrowing into the sandy storm and stay still till morning. Other species have a special capability to cover themselves in a form of cocoon to hide from moray ell at night desert that cocoon when morning comes.