Sunfish

About Sunfish

Sunfish are some of the strangest looking fish species in the world. They have flattened bodies with a very strange tail fin. The sun fish is also called the common mola or the mola and is one of the heaviest bony fishes in the world. An adult sunfish can weigh 247 – 1000 kg. The biggest sun fish ever caught a weighted 1600kg and was caught in 1910.
The chances that you saw one of these fish species is pretty slim since they are not held in too many aquariums because they do require lots of special care. They can live up to 10 years in captivity and they can grow rapidly if they eat the right foods.

Sunfish, any of numerous species of North American freshwater fishes placed with the crappies and black basses in the family Centrarchidae (order Perciformes).

*** In this application, we try to answer some questions about "", including:
1. What does ocean sunfish look like?
2. How big is a sunfish?
3. How do we store the sunfish?
4. What do sunfish eat?
5. What do green sunfish eat in the wild?
6. What do sunfish eat in captivity?
7. How to feed sunfish
8. What do baby freshwater sunfish Eat?
9. Do humans eat sunfish?
10. Do sunfish bite?


*** Fun facts about ocean sunfish
1. Ocean sunfish are generally solitary, unless while being cleaned in a group.
2. Ocean sunfish use their dorsal and anal fins as a primary means to move.
3. Sometimes ocean sunfish swim along the ocean surface.
4. Female ocean sunfish can produce over 300,000,000 eggs at a time.
5. Ocean sunfish have laterally flattened bodies.