The Spotted Scat (Scatophagus argus) is known to tropical fish keeping enthusiasts as the Common Scat, Green Scat, Argus Fish,Butter fish, Spotted Butt, Spotted
Show MoreThe Spotted Scat (Scatophagus argus) is known to tropical fish keeping enthusiasts as the Common Scat, Green Scat, Argus Fish,Butter fish, Spotted Butt, Spotted Butterfish, Spotted Scad, Spadefish, or Leopard Scat.
Although it is distributed throughout the Indo Pacific, most aquarium specimens are collected from the fresh and brackish waters in and around Vietnam.
The Spotted Scat normally inhabits brackish estuaries, freshwater streams, mangroves, and natural embankments. They start their lives out in freshwater and as they mature, move into a brackish, and eventually a totally marine environment.
The Spotted Scat has a compressed, squarish body with a steeply slanted head profile. The body is colored a shiny silver with a light greenish cast and is covered with black spots all across the body extending onto the fins.
The spotted scat (Scatophagus argus, Vietnamese: cá nâu) is a species of fish in the scat family Scatophagidae. In Vietnam, this scat fish is distributed in all sea waters from North to South, from offshore to coastal estuaries. The fish lives in rock crevices, coral reefs, sluice gates, in brackish regions where there are many seaweeds which it feeds on.
The scat fish can be used in so many ways: deep-fried, braised (slow-cooked), roasted in leaves… Braising is probably the most common cooking practice. Some common ingredients to be paired with the scat: fermented rice, daikon radish, star fruits, and bush grapes…
This dish, braised spotted scat fish with bush grapes (Cá nâu kho trái giác), is part of southwestern Vietnamese cuisine.
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