Fishy Friday

Fish Facts or just gossip
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a fish that is swimming in some water
Did You Know..... The word "grouper" is most widely believed to be from the Portuguese name, garoupa. The origin of this name in Portuguese is believed to be from an indigenous South American language.
a large fish with its mouth open on the bottom of a coral reef in blue water
Did You Know..... Dusky Grouper normally have one cave considered as home and several other caves as temporary refuges. Its home has a minimum of two exits, and a size slightly bigger than the grouper, so no bigger animal can enter in. AquaVentureMalta's photo.
a fish that is sitting on the ground
Did You Know..... The Dusky Grouper, or Merou is the best known grouper of the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa coast.
a purple sea horse in an aquarium
Purple Seahorse ocean sea purple fish seahorse underworld
an octopus with orange eyes and purple tentacles is shown in the dark, looking up at something
HAWAIIAN OCTOPUS, ocean pictures - Dump A Day
Amazingly Colorful Hawaiian Octopus ~ Ocean Pictures
an orange and white sea slug crawling on the ocean floor with its head turned to the side
Did You Know..... Bearded Fireworms have a group of venomous white bristles on each side, which are flared out when the worm is disturbed.
two people are kissing in the water with an ocean background that says, you don't devour being happy in your relationship
Atlantic Aloha
When seahorses find a mate, they wrap their tails around each other so the tide doesn’t drift them apart. They have that one mate for the rest of their lives. When the mate dies, they do too.
a blue and orange starfish laying on the sand near the ocean water's edge
20 Bizarre and Beautiful Starfish Species
Beautiful sea creature: starfish! #animals4life www.spice4life.co.za
a white shark swimming in the ocean on a foggy day
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a fish that is swimming in the water
Did You Know..... Grouper's mouths and gills form a powerful sucking system that sucks their prey in from a distance. They also use their mouths to dig into sand to form their shelters under big rocks, jetting it out through their gills.
a large fish swimming in the ocean next to an old shipwrapped with seaweed and other marine life
Did You Know..... Grouper are called Cerna in Maltese
a purple sea horse in an aquarium
Sea horse
an orange and white caterpillar crawling on the ground
Did You Know..... The Bearded Fireworms bristles, when flared, can penetrate human skin, injecting a powerful neurotoxin and producing intense irritation and a painful burning sensation around the area of contact.