Description

Also known as Banded Reef Cod, Banded Rock Cod, Blacktip Cod, Blacktip Rockcod, Blacktip Sea Bass, Black-tipped Cod, Black-tipped Grouper, Black-tipped Rockcod, Black-tipped Sea Bass, Cod, Football Cod, Golden Grouper, Hind, Red-banded Cod, Red-banded Grouper, Red-banded Rockcod, Red-banded Sea Bass, Red-barred Cod, Red-barred Rockcod, Reef Cod, Rockcod, Rock Grouper, Scarlet Rockcod, Stone Bass, Striped Grouper, Trout, Weathered Rockcod.

Found singly or in small schools, over protected shallow bays and lagoons, as well as deeper outer reef slopes. Colour varies from place to place.
They feed on crustaceans, small fish, and octopus.
Length - 35cm
Depth - 4-160m
Widespread Indo-Pacific

Groupers are solitary carnivores that hunt near the bottom usually at dusk. Food is drawn into their mouths by a powerful suction when they open their overly large mouths and then swallowed whole.
Spawning is seasonal and controlled by the moons phase. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/5348