Common names: Other names used in various geographical locations to identify each species. Description: To properly identify your catch these commonly observed attributes can be used.
Where found: Though fish often know no bounds, there are general locations where they most commonly may be found. Similar Gulf of Maine species: Here are listed other fish that resemble this species and may cause identification problems. Remarks: This includes life history, behavior, feeding habits and angling information. Some of the links below are PDF files, which may require the free Adobe Reader download here to view or print. Before catching fish, anglers must locate them. Much of North America is within a day's drive of the oceans, an estuary, or some other marine environment.
You can find fish nearly anywhere there is food, oxygen, and cover. If you have a boat, your choice of fishing locations gets even larger. Not all fish can live in the same kinds of waters. Different species need different sets of environmental conditions, including:. Some species and some venues may also have times of the year when it is illegal to fish. Many states have closed seasons when various species are spawning.
Successful anglers understand how all the factors affect their chances of catching a particular species. Skip to content. Many fish species such as striped bass and grouper live or hold near structure. Structure refers to changes in the shape of the bottom caused by rocks, reefs, manmade objects, humps, ledges, and drop-offs. Structure causes fish to concentrate in certain areas.
Estuaries and river mouths may have shoreline structures such as docks, logs, stump fields, brush, rock piles, grass beds, and downed trees that provide shelter, shade, and protection for fish. Islands, sand bars, rock piles, and jetties are also good places to fish. Fish inhabit certain types of cover because it provides them with protection and puts them in the best possible position to catch a meal.
Some fish species like brook trout cannot live with much salt in the water, other fish, such as tuna, need salt, and some, such as striped bass, can live in salt or freshwater.
Fish also need a certain amount of oxygen in the water. Which is fun and sometimes that means clownfish babies! You can learn about clownfish breeding here. I think people tend to either love or hate the Banggai Cardinalfish, but clearly, enough people love them to make them one of the most popular saltwater fish. This fish is relatively easy to spawn in a reef tank by saltwater fish standards and they will pair up.
Use caution, they seem friendly towards each other as juveniles, but when the adults grow up and pair-off, they can get down-right nasty. Still, aquacultured Banggai Cardinalfish is one of my very favorite reef fish. The issue is complex and beyond the scope of this article here—but please take my recommendation and get this cool saltwater fish from an aquaculture facility , not from the ocean. They are a great reef fish. Most importantly, they are readily available at your local fish store.
The Royal Gramma, Gramma loreto , is a great beginner fish for the new saltwater aquarium. The reasons I love them so much are because they are perfectly sized, beautifully colored, hardy, tolerant of the conditions within a saltwater tank and spend their time out in the open, rather than in crevices, hiding.
They are very hardy and relatively inexpensive, which is a combination that makes the Royal Gramma a great saltwater fish. Royal Grammas are cave-spawning saltwater fish that reproduce in harems. That means a single male tends to spawn with more than one female. The male makes a nest out of macroalgae, which is where the eggs are laid night after night. The Pajama Cardinalfish is the fishy cousin to the Banggai Cardinalfish.
You can keep them in groups, which is cool. They have giant eyes and are peaceful and are available through aquaculture. Shop around for the aquacultured variety, because most of the stores I see have wild-caught fish because they are cheap and abundant. If you can afford it, I recommend you spend a little more to get the aquacultured variety. Firefish are a great fish, stunning to look at—but they are jumpers.
Make sure you have a tight-fitting lid. I left the lid open one night by accident got distracted, walked away , and found it on the floor in the morning. For whatever reason, these fish love to check out the floor. If you love the look of the firefish and want an even cooler saltwater fish, check out the purple firefish. There are a few different species of clownfish within the tomato clownfish complex.
Many of these can be a good choice for your own aquarium, as long as you have space. They are larger fish, compared with the common clownfish, yet are equally easily cared for. They are beautiful fish with a reddish-orange color that will turn to a darker brown color in more mature females.
As juveniles, they have 3 white stripes, just like the common clownfish—but A. The iconic juvenile-to-adult has a single large white band just behind the eye, like in the images above. Being very hardy, they will eat live, frozen, and prepared foods with gusto.
Maroon clownfish are very cool looking—and I would even consider them to be extremely cute, as juveniles, which may influence your purchasing decision. However, they are also one of the most aggressive and territorial species of clownfish. They are notoriously territorial and should be the last fishes you add to the tank, if possible.
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