Behavior of Grouper Fish Habitat Natural
Area
When it comes for the grouper fish habitat, the habitat is spreading in
all oceans all over the world. However, usually each species has their own
living area that they choose to stay in that is why each species may have
different habitat that they choose. However, when the grouper is still in
juvenile stage, they would live in habitat that is near the shore area. Since
they will need to hide in the sea grass bed as well as tidal pool for protection
until they are more mature. They will also need to eat small microorganism
inside the sea water such as microalgae, plankton, and even crustaceans.
Then for adult grouper
fish habitat, they will choose to live in the bottom area of the sea. They
usually live in subtropical or tropical area and most of the grouper species
are living at the coral reef. Furthermore, most of the time the grouper fish
would not form any school thus you may not be able to find a lot of them at
once. But they will be gathering when the time for reproduction period. In
their natural habitat they are able to find various fish that they feed on such
as wrasse, parrotfish, snapper and damselfish. Besides those fishes the adult
grouper will also eat various other sea creatures such as crustaceans, octopus,
lobster, and crab.
When it comes to their habitat, the grouper
fish will stay in the same place for a long time. Especially since they do not
like to swim for long distance as they are not very fast either. They will lie
hidden in a place where they will wait so they can ambush their prey that comes
near into their hiding spot since their jaws are fast and powerful to do this
method. Several grouper fish species has unique behavior. This grouper fish has
form a habit to follow down an ell when they go foraging in the reef. Then the
grouper fish will catch and eat the smaller fishes as well as crustacean which
coming out from their hiding place as they are all afraid to the ell that
forage and destroy their hiding place.
Sadly in the same grouper
fish habitat predators also live in the same area. Those predators that
are quite dangerous for the grouper fish are king mackerel, barracuda, moray
eels, hammerhead shark, and sandbar shark. That is why; they will hide so they
can avoid those predators. Besides hiding, turns out grouper fish also have unique
ability that allows them to change their body coloration which will give them a
lot of advantage. They can quickly change their body coloration and make it
suitable with the environment that they currently in. Their mood is also
helping them to change their body coloration so they can move inside a hole
that cannot be reach by the predators and use their body coloration change as
camouflage.
Another unique thing that also happens
inside the grouper fish habitat is when
their reproduction period arrive which usually in the full moon of winter
season. As you know that most of the time the grouper fish will live in their
private hideout. However, during their reproduction period, then they will form
very large school which may even consist of 100,000 grouper fish at once. The
reason why they gather in large number like this is because they want to
increase the probability for their mating to be successful. Furthermore when
large amount of grouper fish spawn in the same time, then they will also have
higher chance for survive. Especially since the female grouper fish is only
able to spawn once in one year period while the male may spawn more than once
in one year period.
Turns out another grouper fish behavior is
able to cope with this problem as this fish is actually protogynous
hermaphrodite. This means that when they are still in the juvenile stage, then
most of them are actually female. But when they grow larger they will later
transform into male. Actually during one or even two years they will be in
female form so they can spawn more eggs, then later they can transform into
male. The transformation also happens to the large size female when there is
not enough large size male in the group. But once the female grouper transform
into male grouper, and then they cannot transform back to become female fish.
Inside the grouper
fish habitat, this fish as unique role especially on the reef ecosystem
where they stay in. This grouper fish is able to prevent other sea creature
from behaving uncontrollably. This grouper fish is also able to control the
population of other sea creature inside their habitat so it would not
overpopulate the area where they live in. This is why; it is important to
maintain the grouper fish population in that area and also to protect their
habitat so there is no bad thing happens that can damage the entire ecosystem.
As you can see, grouper fish itself has
very unique behavior as they like to stay in their hideout for most of the
time. But then they will also form large school during the reproduction period.
The amount of grouper fish in the area will also highly affect the health of grouper fish habitat which we should maintain and
take care for the future.
