Coral trout colour change
Submitted by crano on Thu, 2014-06-26 17:42
I was taking some photos of a trout just off the beach in the bay at coral bay.I noticed it was changing colour as it changed its surroundings.When it was over weed it would go blotchy and look completely different.I did not get any decent pics of it when really blotchy but these pics still show the difference
Hutch
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Thats pretty cool, if it
Thats pretty cool, if it wasnt two different fish
opsrey
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might have taken a likeing for you :)
Could have got the hots for you. :)
black gen
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Is this a joke?
Is this a joke?
hayden
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It's cause it seen your ugly
It's cause it seen your ugly mug crano haha
crano
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It is real and definately
It is real and definately the same fish.
Hayden ,it appears it was showing signs of arousal after seeing me.
How is the boat buying and selling going.
Adam Gallash
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absolutely
Absolutely change colour. They show fright colours and excitement as well. When I used to work in aquaculture we were trying to breed coral trout, when it came to feed time in our big tank the male would dominate and change colours and all the females would wait until he fed.
I haven't put the good video on youtube, but here's me feeding one of our runt tanks when they were all turned on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVhWad3g07w
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pale ale
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Cool vid mate :)
Cool vid mate :)
Adam Gallash
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Pic
Here ya go, this is one of the females we had that we were giving a fresh water bath to, to get the parasites off her. Can see the fright colours and how they can change when they feel like it.
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pricey10
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True! When I started
True! When I started spearing I was looking at what I thought was a cod after looking at for a minute it swam off and I realised it was a trout my mate shot it and it was a 73cm trout. Blue bone do the same thing
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Do us a favour pricey....put
Do us a favour pricey....put some clthes on mate!!