[4] This fish can tolerate a wide range of salinities and can be found in fresh, brackish, and marine waters.

[5] In experimental conditions, fat snook feed during the day, but during times of lower light, in the early morning and late afternoon.

[10] Because it is a euryhaline fish, living in marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats, it can be farmed in a wide range of salinities.

[11] This species is protandrous, the form of sequential hermaphroditism in which males change to the female sex as they grow.

Researchers have experimented with dosing tanks of fish with the female sex hormone estradiol to produce all-female stocks, with promising results.