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Beche De Mer
(Sea Cucumber)

Silver Batfish are also known as Butter Bream and Mono, Diamondfish, Fingerfish, Malayan Angelfish, Silver Mono, Silver Moonfish, Silver Moony

A deep-bodies fish which enters fresh water, but prefers salt water.  They are a popular aquarium fish because of the wide colour variations they pass through as they grow.

They are found in New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Distribution: west Africa, Indo-Pacific. Chiefly marine and brackish; occasionally entering freshwater.

Description:  Body deep and highly compressed. Pelvic fins present in juveniles, lacking or vestigial in adults in Monodactylus. Dorsal fin with the base long and scaly; 5-8 short and graduated spines. Anal fin base long; 3 spines. Scales cycloid or ctenoid. Often silvery. Feed on small fish and invertebrates. Assumed to be nonguarders (RF). In large schools in river mouths. Common freshwater aquarium fish.

Butter Bream are omnivorous.  They eat sea vegetables, small fish, crustaceans, shrimp.

Fishing for Silver Batfish, Mono or Butter Bream:

Best caught on light spinning tackle, a standard running rig, 1 to 1/0 hook baited with peeled or live prawn.

Cooking Butter Bream:

They are a good eating fish.

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