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SWEETLIPS - HAEMULIDAE
The Haemulidae family spends the day on coastal reefs, or underneath jetties or wrecks and are sometimes observed in very big schools. They become active at night and start patrolling the reef in a solitary fashion looking for benthic invertebrates like shells and worms and also small fish. They are very easy to recognize because of their attractive pattern, color and thick lips. Sweetlip juveniles swim and look unlike adults when swimming alone. This is a way of camouflaging themselves. Some look like a poisonous nudibranch or swimming flatworms. There is not much known about the mating behavior, but the spawning happens around sunset as with many other fish, so there is less chance of the eggs being eaten by plankton feeders.
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