Snook

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Several members have asked me about this fish but I know almost nothing about it.
It is a very easy fish to keep. Eats freeze dried krill, pellets and frozen. Fast grower and great tank mate. If anything his is the one being punked. It's currently at approx 16"-17" and still growing.
Wes, how big does it get? What and where is this thing from? Seeing that I got it from you. I'm surprise there isn't more of them around.

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wow, that is amazing! looks to be a black snook, which gets pretty big, about 50" or so I believe. When they're small they're hard to tell apart, but I've had some common snooks, fat snooks, black snooks, and swordspine snooks, the last one is the smallest one. Those pictures are great!
 
grrr.... i had some swordspines before, and they grew soooooo sloooooooooooooow and they were so skittish and shy -___- now I want to find one like this that actually grows! along with some bumblebee groupers, berda, lutjanus, flatheads, caranx etc etc and that would be a killer sw-LOOKING fw tank! interesting though, I have yet to see a snook while I'm here in HK while I've seen almost everything else ^^ Wes , perhaps you can trade some hk vendors snooks for some lateolabrax xD

*on a side note: i found psmmoperca weigensis ! they look quite like a snook though and they call em "sai cho" ( west perch? ) ...... that was a 20" specimen..... at a sw food fish market though >_< I'll investigate more in depth (eating it xD ) on monday if they still have it xD
 
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pupumole said:
grrr.... i had some swordspines before, and they grew soooooo sloooooooooooooow and they were so skittish and shy -___- now I want to find one like this that actually grows! along with some bumblebee groupers, berda, lutjanus, flatheads, caranx etc etc and that would be a killer sw-LOOKING fw tank! interesting though, I have yet to see a snook while I'm here in HK while I've seen almost everything else ^^ Wes , perhaps you can trade some hk vendors snooks for some lateolabrax xD

*on a side note: i found psmmoperca weigensis ! they look quite like a snook though and they call em "sai cho" ( west perch? ) ...... that was a 20" specimen..... at a sw food fish market though >_< I'll investigate more in depth (eating it xD ) on monday if they still have it xD
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Yeah, "sai cho" are expensive to eat, since they're all wild caught, no farm raised ones. probably around 50 usd per pound or more.

Yeah, they don't have snooks, since they have no supplier.
 
Very nice!! :drool:
 
That actually looks like a common snook (Centropomus undecimalis). Its a fantastic sportfish sought after by many fisherman here in Florida. It has regulations on it for size 28-33 inches in Florida. I am not sure about other states. Its a estuarine fish that lives both in salt water and brackish but is often found in lakes and canals that are straight freshwater. They probably get in there during floods.

Right now they are protected as their population was hurt very badly by the cold winter temperatures we have had in the past few years. Tens of thousands washed up in the surf, dead or so cold that their motabolism had almost stopped. Youve got an awesome fish right there! Enjoy it!
 
hurricane_redbone said:
That actually looks like a common snook (Centropomus undecimalis). Its a fantastic sportfish sought after by many fisherman here in Florida. It has regulations on it for size 28-33 inches in Florida. I am not sure about other states. Its a estuarine fish that lives both in salt water and brackish but is often found in lakes and canals that are straight freshwater. They probably get in there during floods.

Right now they are protected as their population was hurt very badly by the cold winter temperatures we have had in the past few years. Tens of thousands washed up in the surf, dead or so cold that their motabolism had almost stopped. Youve got an awesome fish right there! Enjoy it!
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That snook could be a number of species depending on collection point and a simple id factor. If it was caught on the Gulf/Atlantic side, which is where the swordspines were collected, then it could be C. mexicanus, C. undecimalis, C. parallelus, or C. poeyi. If collected on the west coast in the Pacific, then it could be C. nigrescens, or C. viridis. The latter are easily distinguished by the number of dorsal spines before the large spine of the dorsal...if only one spine then it's black snook, if two, then it's a white snook. Both of those grow quite large. As far as the east coast snooks, identification is a bit more confusing. C. poeyi has only one spine, but it is attached to the main dorsal with a membrane and almost appears to be be no spine at all at first glance, it's also shorter bodied than the common snook C. undecimalis making it's appearance close to that of the fat snook C. parallelus...but C. parallelus has 2 clearly defined dorsal spines. C. undecimalis is the last choice for ID but even the backwater darkly colored snook don't have doark colored fins like the one pictured. My guess is that if Pacific collection point, check the anal spines, and if Atlantic, it's between C. poeyi and C. mexicanus but I would lean towards C. poeyi because of the coloration. I'd be interested in finding out what the dorsal spine count is and where the fish was collected.
 
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