While it may be snowing in your country right around this time of the year, the snow basslet for sure didn’t get its name from the same frozen rain that many have come to love. Or hate, especially if you live in the frozen tundras of Duluth or Buffalo. Today’s Awesome Fish Spotlight features the diminutive snow basslet, and yes likeS. luciopercanusposted recently, it too is a basslet coming out of the waters of库拉索.
Serranus chionaraiais a chocolate brown little basslet adorned with white striae and a white belly patch. LikeS. phoebe和S. luciopercanus, it too leads a rather solitary cryptic life in the deep waters of Curacao. They are often caught by the curasub at depths of up to 300ft, but sometimes shallower.
AlthoughS. chionaraiais not a colourful fish by any standards, the chocolate brown and snow white patterns make for a rather comforting and dare I say delicious pairing. Looking much like a cake or a decadent dessert, the snow basslet may not appeal to the masses, but for die hard lovers of such fishes it makes for a valuable target.
喜欢many members in Serranidae,S. chionaraiais asynchronous hermaphroditewhich means an individual can produce male and female gametes simultaneously. This also means that any two individuals can pair up and take turns spawning amongst themselves in a process known as egg-trading. For more information on egg-trading,本文on hermaphrodites touches very briefly on the process using hamlets from the genusHypoplectrus举个例子。
在同名属中，雪bass是耐寒的，很容易保留。喜欢S. luciopercanusin the previous Awesome Fish Spotlight, the snow basslet is another Dynasty Marine speciality and this was also offered to Iwarna Aquafarm of Singapore.
