Interesting Facts About Butterfly Fish

Interesting Facts About Butterfly Fish

1. Butterfly Fish feed on live coral polyps.

2. The Butterfly Fish eat algae and zooplankton. Other types of Butterfly Fishes eat meaty fares. Shrimp and copepods. Copepods - small crustaceans

3. Sharks, moray eels, and other large reef fishes eat Butterfly fish.

4. Butterfly Fishes are so colorful and so they live in the Coral Reef.

5. They live around the shallow areas.  The Butterfly Fishes sleep at night because they have many predators that come around at the time.

6. Females reproduce 3000 to 4000 eggs and these eggs hatch in a day. Butterfly Fish grow to about 6 inches.

7. Butterfly Fish have short snouts.

8. A common name for a Butterfly Fish is Butterbum, school mistress, and banded butterfly fish. 

9. There are 114 species of Butterfly Fish!

10. Travel in small groups known as small schools.

11. At night, Butterfly fish settle into dark crevices.

12. Brilliant colors and markings fade and blend in with the reef background. 

13. They develop plates on their body to protect themselves during reproduction period. The plates disappear as the fish grows. 

14. Longnose butterfly fish often swim upside-down inside reef caves close to the top of the cave.