-+Banner+Fish

The Longfin Banner fish, biologically known as //Heniochus acuminatus// and also as the Pennant Coral fish, is white with two black stripes, has a long dorsal filament, and yellow caudle fins. The Longfin Banner fish 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 Banner fish are very social fish and are not known for being territorial. They range all over the oceans most often found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans around Australia, in Northern Tropical Waters, and Southern New South Wales. Many people mistake the Schooling Banner fish for the Longfin Banner fish because of how closely related they are, but you can distinctively distinguish the two by their stripes, profile, and fins. The Longfin Banner fish have a less rounded profile unlike the Schooling Banner fish, also the Longfin's second black stripe is located more closely to the anal fin and they don't have an additional dorsal fin spine like the closely related Schooling Baner fish. Banner fish are very easy to care for when their in the right environment; 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 ones 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 a lot better than you would by seeing a picture like the one shown here taken by Aundrea.


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

Edited by Derrick Reid