yes sir ,a common snapper , before anyone goes and gets all kinds of alligator snapper sideways about it in our aquarium .
sure has what is quite common in them with a real bad boy attitude and a strike that will outpace lightning it seems .
about the size of a chicken egg and around 1 year old , not a this year hatchling .
our "pancake" turtle (aka softshell turtle ) that was in there grew up from hatchling to pancake size and got replaced with this one .
it is amazing to see how large of a food item a tiny snapper can engulf in a single strike
we are currently on a chicken innards diet supplemented with mosquito minnows and some crappie trimmings too ....
it is totally deadly in the dark and reduces a live minnow population FAST .
it managed to ketch the last rosey red in the aquarium that was about a year old and very turtle wise the first night !