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Goliath Grouper Feeding Photo

Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes, Fishes, Groupers: Serranids: Serranidae, Marine Life, Puffers: Pufferfishes: Tetraodontidae, behavior, copyrighted, feeding, goliath grouper: Epinephelus itajara, marine, ocean, predation, underwater, underwater photo

Many fishermen believe the goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) feeds primarily on lobsters. But in my 20 years of diving, it has been on slow moving fish and crabs that I have observed them eat. A stalemate between this goliath grouper and this inflated pufferfish lasted two days.