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As opportunistic eaters, gray snappers aren't picky about their food. They feed mainly on crustaceans like shrimp and crabs, but will also eat smaller fishes, octopus, worms and mollusks. Occurring in ...

Throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and western Atlantic Ocean, giant hermit crabs inhabit inshore reefs, beds of turtle grass, muddy, sandy and shelly bottom areas. Giant hermit crabs have ...

Adult Caribbean spiny lobsters eat snails, crabs and clams. Young lobsters feed on plankton floating by in the water column. Throughout the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, these ...

Reef butterflyfish have small, compressed bodies making them quick swimmers and great hiders. Throughout the western Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, reef butterflyfish inhabit coral ...

Crustaceans like, shrimp, peracarids and amphipods are the main course on a potbelly seahorse's menu. With dorsal and pectoral fins, the potbellied seahorse can steer, propel and stabilize itself ...

Gag groupers can grow to be 58 inches (1.57 meters) long and weight up to 81 pounds (36.7 kilograms). Widely distributed, the gag grouper can be found anywhere from the coasts of North Carolina down ...

Throughout the western Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, white grunts can be found in shallow coastal waters. They inhabit coral reefs and sandy bottoms. White grunts are a shiny ...

The average size of a moray eel is 6 feet (1.8 meters), weighing in at 30 pounds (13.3 kilograms). In the Gulf of Mexico, western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the green moray eel lives along ...

These fish usually live in pairs. If one gets separated from its partner, they will attempt to find and rejoin them. In the western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, foureye butterflyfish ...

Florida manatees are native to the United States, as seen in both the fossil records and in Native American sites. Depending on the time of year they can be frequently found in Florida, Alabama, and ...

Green turtles eat a wide variety of vegetation including algae and seagrasses. They'll also snack on insects, worms, sponges, dead fish and smaller invertebrates. As green turtles reach adulthood, ...