Grunion The Gulf grunion, with its smaller eggs, is unique in that it spawn during both night- and daytime. Although some other fish species leave their eggs in locations that dry out (a few, such as plainfin midshipman, may even remain on land with the eggs during low tide) or on plants above the water (splash tetras), jumping onto land "en masse" to spawn is unique to the grunion, capelin and grass puffer. Grunion feeding habits are not well known. They have no teeth and feed on very small organisms such as plankton. In a laboratory setting, grunion eat live brine
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