Dennis & Sally Polack, Südafrika
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Plectorhinchus centurio Cuvier, 1830
This sweetlips is found from the east coast of Africa to the Seychelles in the western Indian Ocean, the animals can grow up to 100cm under optimal conditions.
Adult sweetlips occur as solitary animals or in small groups, while juvenile animals seek shelter in seagrass beds.
Diagramma centurio plays no role in aquaristics, but it is important for human consumption, as the large sweetlips are fished with lines.
The large sweetlips are no food despisers, they feed both herbivorously and carnivorously, but are also dependent on other sea creatures, such as the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus, which frees the fish from annoying skin parasites, a procedure that the cleaning customers endure with great patience, allowing the lively little wrasse to clean the mouth and gill area extensively.
This sweetlips is found from the east coast of Africa to the Seychelles in the western Indian Ocean, the animals can grow up to 100cm under optimal conditions.
Adult sweetlips occur as solitary animals or in small groups, while juvenile animals seek shelter in seagrass beds.
Diagramma centurio plays no role in aquaristics, but it is important for human consumption, as the large sweetlips are fished with lines.
The large sweetlips are no food despisers, they feed both herbivorously and carnivorously, but are also dependent on other sea creatures, such as the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus, which frees the fish from annoying skin parasites, a procedure that the cleaning customers endure with great patience, allowing the lively little wrasse to clean the mouth and gill area extensively.
