Jewfish is a different species of grouper and not the same as the Queensland grouper. The pricey ones quoted above are for "freshwater" collected BB groupers. Marine BB groupers are alot less expensive in that they are more common.Rass said:
bumbble bee grouper
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Actually several of the larger groupers are often called jewfish, just another common name that doesn't mean any thing.
Fishbase has 27 different species listed as jewfish including these two croakers from Australia.
vince I thought a bumblebee grouper was a bumblebee grouper? Not a Marine one and a FW one?
I thought it was simply that they could be kept in fresh when juveniles?
I thought it was simply that they could be kept in fresh when juveniles?
You are right. It is just a bumblebee grouper, but some are collected in freshwater, and they seem to be OK to stay in freshwater for as long as they stay alive, and then the ones collected in marine, which is pretty much their home.rumblesushi said:
Guppy, the Jewfish that I am only familiar with are the ones caught off the coast of Florida. I didn't know there are different fish also commonly named as Jewfish.
http://www.thejump.net/fishing/1-fish-7/jewfish.jpg
That I think is the Ephinephelus itajara and is also the one that I think of when I hear the name, the mutton grouper, the E. nigritis, and the California Giant grouper (Steriolepis gigas), as well as the Glaucosoma hebraicum are all also given that common name.
Confusing, eh?
Confusing, eh?
here are some pics of my bumble bee grouper at around 4" two months ago. He is now about 7" in a freshwater tank with some pbass, he is a cool dude to watch when feeding, he comes out of his cave and beg you to throw some feeders for him. 
