Quoyi Parrotfish - Scarus quoyiQuoyi Parrotfish (Scarus quoyi) The Quoyi Parrotfish, Scarus quoyi, is a colourful and unusual marine herbivore with a streamlined body, green to blue markings, orange facial tones and the beak like mouth typical of parrotfish. Also known as Quoys Parrotfish, Greenblotch Parrotfish or Green blotched Parrotfish, this Indo West Pacific species is one of the more aquarium suitable parrotfish when kept in a very large, mature system. It is generally

this Eastern Indian Ocean species is an inquisitive marine fish with plenty of personality

This species naturally lives in monogamous pairs within a size-based social hierarchy

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spirulina-based foods and algae sheets

outer reef slopes and rubble or sandy areas close to coral structure

from narrow crevices and branching corals

Elongated adults are thought to be males

Not often seen usually solitary

Scientific Name (Latin):Platax pinnatus

Southeast Asia

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