BrackishSaltwater
Emperor red snapper
Lutjanus sebae
Lutjanidae, Lutjaninae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 116 cm
- Body shape
- Deep-bodied
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 32,799 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
Native
Lives wild in Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, and 35 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Adults occur in the vicinity of coral or rocky reefs, often over adjacent sand flats and gravel patches. Also trawled in deeper water on relatively flat bottoms. Juveniles are frequently commensal with sea urchins. Juveniles less than 20 cm long are common in near shore, turbid waters, in mangrove areas, or among both coastal and deeper water offshore reefs. Juveniles can also be found swimming amongst the spines of urchins in shallow coastal bays. They move to deeper waters as they grow larger, with large fish often moving into shallower water during the winter months. They form schools of similar-sized individuals or are solitary. Feed on fishes, crabs, stomatopods, other benthic crustaceans and cephalopods. Marketed fresh, dried-salted and frozen. Commercially important but in certain regions of the Indian Ocean, large individuals are known to cause ciguatera poisoning.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Diacope civis
- Diacope sebae
- Diacope siamensis
- Genyoroge regia
- Lutianus sebae
In other languages
- Kejsarsnapper
- Kejsersnapper
- Emperor bream, Emperor snapper, Emperor's red-snapper, Government bream, King snapper, Queenfish, Red emperor, Red emperor snapper, Red kelp, Red snapper, Redfish, Seba's snapper, Snapper
Articles
All articles
Fish that get along4 min read
Temperament, fin nippers, fish that eat other fish, and fish that need the same water. And what the Harmony mark in the app means.
How to add new fish4 min read
From the store to the tank: how to get the fish used to your water, why you should add only a few at a time, and what to watch for in the first few days.
Quarantine for new fish3 min read
Why new fish should live in a tank of their own for a few weeks before they move in, what you need, and what to look for.
From freshwater to saltwater3 min read
What is different in a saltwater aquarium: salt, refractometer, live rock and corals. An introduction for anyone thinking of giving it a try.