Banner+Fish

The Longfin Bannerfish, biologically known as //Heniochus acuminatus// and also as the Pennant Coralfish, is white with two black stripes, has a long dorsal filament, and yellow caudle fins. The Longfin Bannerfish usually grow to about twenty-five cm in length, eating zooplankton and other invertebrates living along the bottom of the ocean, unless they are living in an aquarium in which they'll eat plants and animals as their main food source. They are found two to seventy-five meters underwater in sheltered bay areas and coral reef regions (like the Puget Sound). The Longfin Bannerfish are very social fish and are not known for being territorial. They range all over the oceans most oftenly found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans around Austrailia, in Northern Tropical Waters, and Southern New South Wales. Many people mistake the Schooling Bannerfish for the Longfin Bannerfish because of how closely related they are, but you can distinctivly distinguish the two by their stripes, profile, and fins. The Longfin Bannerfish have a less rounded profile unlike the Schooling Bannerfish, also the Longfin's second black stripe is located more closely to the anal fin and they dont have an additional dorsal fin spine like the closely related Schooling Banerfish. Bannerfish are very easy to care for when their in the right enviornment (a big enough tank, enough water, enough food, etc.), and are most commonly captured for their beauty instead of for meals (to be put in aquariums like the one's we saw at the zoo) and if you ever get the chance to see one up close you'll really understand the beauty of the fish alot better than you would by seeing a picture like the one shown here taken by Aundrea.



For more information check out this link to Wikipedia.org: [|Longfin Bannerfish: Wikipedia.org] Written by: Aundrea

Edited by Derrick Reid