Species photo: Gregor Bailar, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist
Pogonoperca punctata
$120.00
A medium clown grouper: a white-spotted soapfish with dark saddles and a beard-like chin flap.
Only 2 left in our tanks
From our species guide
In plain words: The clown grouper is a gray-brown fish covered in little white dots, like snowflakes. It has a black stripe through each eye and four dark patches on its back. A small flap of skin hangs from its chin, a bit like a beard.
The clown grouper is really a soapfish, a brown to gray predator covered in white spots, with a black eye bar, dark saddles along its back and a small flap of skin on its chin. This listing is a medium-size fish. Its toxic skin slime can be released in large amounts if the fish is badly stressed or dies, so keep it in a calm, well-filtered tank of 125 gallons or more and remove it at once if it dies. It eats small fish and crustaceans.
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