Red Fish, Blue Fish Trivia Quiz

Answer: Gold

Goldfish are the most common types of aquarium dwellers. Although goldfish can be a golden color, they are not always this way. They can range in color anywhere from white to black. Black moors are also called telescope fish, so-called for the protruding eyes. Bubble-eyes also have protruding eyes; sacs filled with liquid! They can pop, so you need to be careful if you have some in your tank.

Other goldfish include: comet, fantail, pompom, and veiltail.

Answer: Blackfish

The blackfish is not always black, like the name suggests. The Alaska blackfish, genus Dallia, as mentioned, is a brownish color with reddish brown spots on its body and fins. The river blackfish, genus Gadopsis, can range in color from yellows and greens with dark green spots to very dark purple, or black, thus the name.

The Sacramento blackfish starts out silver in color, but gets darker as it ages.

Answer: Grayfish

Grayfish are also known as dogfish. Dogfish are a type a shark in the order Sqauliformes. Sharks from this order include bramble, kitefin, gulper, lantern, rough, sleeper, and dogfish sharks. A dogfish can also be, oddly enough, a type of catshark, and can also be an alternate name for a nurse shark.

Answer: Rainbowfish

Rainbowfish come in a variety of colors, with often many different colors on a single fish; thus the name "rainbow" fish. There have been over 70 species of rainbowfish discovered, and it is believed that there are many more scientists have yet to find.

Some rainbowfish have bands of black on them, running lengthwise, which is why they have been given the genus name Melanotaenia (black-banded).

Answer: Salmon

Salmon is from the family Salmonidae. The most common salmon eaten in the United States is Alaskan salmon. Commonly known salmon species are the sockeye, chum, and chinook species. Salmon are most known for swimming upstream in rivers to spawn, dying in the process from their lack of eating. The coho salmon is also known as the silver salmon in the United States. Rainbow trout and steelhead trout are classified as true salmon.

When salmon, used for food, is cut, it has a deep pinkish-orange color to it. The word "salmon" was then used to describe this color.

Answer: Bluefish

The bluefish is the only species in the Pomatomidae family. The fish is blue in color (who would have thought), with grayish blue-green fins and a white underbelly. The fish can range from seven inches long, known as snappers, to nearly forty pounds! The bluefish is unique because it can be found in any climate.

Did you get my clue? I said it was a "title" fish. This should have made your color choice much easier, because only "redfish" and "bluefish" are mentioned in the quiz title. :-)

Answer: Whitefish

Whitefish are freshwater fish from three families: Stenodus, Coregonus, and Prosopium. The common whitefish is found in Russian lakes, and the lake whitefish is found in American lakes. The inconnu is found in America, Europe and Asia. It is also known as the coney, nelma, sheefish, and belorybitsa. Most whitefish are silvery-white in color, with brown, green, or blue on the backside.

Answer: Rubyfish

Rubyfish are actually very light pink, almost rosy, in color, though the name would suggest they are much brighter red. The rubyfish is found in southern waters, around South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as other southwestern parts of the Pacific ocean. The scientific name of the rubyfish is Plagiogeneion rubiginosum.

Answer: Rosefish

The rose fish, though often called a haddock or a perch, is not either of the species. Rather, it is from the Scorpaeniformes order, along with scorpionfish, skillfish, sablefish, velvetfish, firefish, greenlings, and flatheads. The rose fish starts out brown in color, as a baby, and matures into a bright red fish, almost ruby in color.

What a coincidence, the rubyfish is rose in color, and the rose fish is ruby in color. ;-)

Answer: Pearlfish

Pearlfish can grow up to twenty inches long, and are normally found over a mile below the ocean's surface. They are normally commensal, which means they do not harm the host in which they live. Others, however, are parasitic. The free-living species of pearlfish include the Echiodon and Snyderidia families, the commensal species include the Carapus and Onuxodon families, and the parasitic species includes the Encheliophis family.