FRENCH ANGELFISH (Pomacanthus paru)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacanthidae
Genus: Pomacanthus
Species: Pomacanthus paru
The French Angelfish (Pomacanthus paru) is a species of angelfish belongs to the family Pomacanthidae. This fish can be easily found in western Atlantic to eastern Atlantic. French angelfish is omnivore. Their diet includes marine algae, sponges, corals, etc.
French angelfish grows up to 41 cm. Their face is pale, dusky-blue with eyes rimmed in yellow and white. The body is a dark, dusky blue with yellow scale margins across their structure as they become adult. Their body structure is tall, narrow, and thin. They can turn quickly and maneuver down into narrow cracks between the corals and hunt their prey while avoiding predator. They swim by rowing their pectoral fins.
French angelfish tends to live on the shallow reefs environments. They are usually seen together with pairs and believed to stay together until death. They are also known to be very territorial; the couples will seek food on the day and come back to the same spot every evening.
French angelfish can be easily kept at home aquarium. They can adapt well into the life of aquariums. 250 gallon or larger tank should be provided and include large amounts of live rock for hiding. They also tend to dominates the tank.
By: Diemas Ekakarina Prihandini
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacanthidae
Genus: Pomacanthus
Species: Pomacanthus paru
The French Angelfish (Pomacanthus paru) is a species of angelfish belongs to the family Pomacanthidae. This fish can be easily found in western Atlantic to eastern Atlantic. French angelfish is omnivore. Their diet includes marine algae, sponges, corals, etc.
French angelfish grows up to 41 cm. Their face is pale, dusky-blue with eyes rimmed in yellow and white. The body is a dark, dusky blue with yellow scale margins across their structure as they become adult. Their body structure is tall, narrow, and thin. They can turn quickly and maneuver down into narrow cracks between the corals and hunt their prey while avoiding predator. They swim by rowing their pectoral fins.
French angelfish tends to live on the shallow reefs environments. They are usually seen together with pairs and believed to stay together until death. They are also known to be very territorial; the couples will seek food on the day and come back to the same spot every evening.
French angelfish can be easily kept at home aquarium. They can adapt well into the life of aquariums. 250 gallon or larger tank should be provided and include large amounts of live rock for hiding. They also tend to dominates the tank.
By: Diemas Ekakarina Prihandini
PORCUPINE FISH // Diodon hystrix
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetradontiformes
Family: Diodontidae
Genus: Diodon
Species: D. hystrix
Spot-fin porcupinefish is a fish with large eyes, mouth that are flattened and large rounded fins. Their color is dull brown to green at the back. The mouth and belly are pale. The skin is also covered with small spots. Porcupine fish have long sharp spines. They superpower/ ability is to inflate themselves. By inflating their body, it will protect them from predators. If the predator ate them, they will blow up in the throat of the predator. D. hystrix can grow up to 91 cm long but the average is between 20 to 50 cm and can live at least 10 years. It can be found in tropical seas, especially in shallow reef. Since they live in reef zone are, whether it is in the back reef or fore reef, they prefer complex reef that has many holes because they are able to hide. Porcupine fish eats hard-shelled animals such as shrimp, sea urchins and crabs. Although they’re poisonous and not edible, it it’s famous for marine aquarium trade. They uniqueness attracts humans eyes and interest.
DANGER!!!
Porcupine fish and humans are not friends. Human cannot eat porcupines fish, it is poisonous. They produce a poison or toxin called TETRODOTOXIN, most toxic substances known to science. If human swallow their toxin, the toxin will shut down the nervous system that can cause death within hours.
BY: VICKY KIRKPATRICK
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetradontiformes
Family: Diodontidae
Genus: Diodon
Species: D. hystrix
Spot-fin porcupinefish is a fish with large eyes, mouth that are flattened and large rounded fins. Their color is dull brown to green at the back. The mouth and belly are pale. The skin is also covered with small spots. Porcupine fish have long sharp spines. They superpower/ ability is to inflate themselves. By inflating their body, it will protect them from predators. If the predator ate them, they will blow up in the throat of the predator. D. hystrix can grow up to 91 cm long but the average is between 20 to 50 cm and can live at least 10 years. It can be found in tropical seas, especially in shallow reef. Since they live in reef zone are, whether it is in the back reef or fore reef, they prefer complex reef that has many holes because they are able to hide. Porcupine fish eats hard-shelled animals such as shrimp, sea urchins and crabs. Although they’re poisonous and not edible, it it’s famous for marine aquarium trade. They uniqueness attracts humans eyes and interest.
DANGER!!!
Porcupine fish and humans are not friends. Human cannot eat porcupines fish, it is poisonous. They produce a poison or toxin called TETRODOTOXIN, most toxic substances known to science. If human swallow their toxin, the toxin will shut down the nervous system that can cause death within hours.
BY: VICKY KIRKPATRICK
Queen Angelfish
This fish is called queen angelfish is because there’s a blue ringed black spot in their heads, and it is looks like a crown for a queen so it is called queen angelfish. Angelfish is the type of this fish. The colors of the body if this fish is electric blue with purple and orang highlights and has a yellow on a tails, this fish is so colorful. They have rounded heads and small beak-like mouths, and, like other angelfish. This fish is ashy fish because there usually found either alone or often in pairs in in the warm waters of the Caribbean and western Atlantic. Their diets is consist almost entirely of sponge and algae, but they also can eat soft corals and some jelly fish.
The pairs reproduce by rising up in the water, bringing their bellies close together, and release a sperm and eggs. The female of this queen angelfish is usually release 25 to 75 thousand eggs. The eggs are transparent and it eggs is floating in the water, and after the eggs is touch by sperm usually it will become and larve in 15 to 20 hours.
Taxonmy of queen angelfish:
· Kingdom : animalia
· Phylum : chordata
· Class : actinopterygii
· Order : perciformes
· Family : pomacanthidae
· Genus : holacanthus
· Species : holacanthus ciliaris
By Fabian Erlanda
The pairs reproduce by rising up in the water, bringing their bellies close together, and release a sperm and eggs. The female of this queen angelfish is usually release 25 to 75 thousand eggs. The eggs are transparent and it eggs is floating in the water, and after the eggs is touch by sperm usually it will become and larve in 15 to 20 hours.
Taxonmy of queen angelfish:
· Kingdom : animalia
· Phylum : chordata
· Class : actinopterygii
· Order : perciformes
· Family : pomacanthidae
· Genus : holacanthus
· Species : holacanthus ciliaris
By Fabian Erlanda