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Animal Crossing: New Horizons suckerfish

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Creature Information

Inactive until June

Activity

All day
12 AM
12 PM
12 AM
Jun - Sep
January
December
Animal Crossing bell icon Nook's Price 1,500 Bells
Animal Crossing bell icon Drop Box 1,200 Bells
Animal Crossing bell icon C.J. Price 2,250 Bells
Shadow Size X-Large w/Fin
Location Sea
Difficulty Very Easy
Vision Very Wide
Spawn Rates 2
Unlocked After 20 Catches
Furniture Item for suckerfish

Furniture Details

Happy Home Academy

Category Pet
Base Points 71
Size 1x1

Phrases

Catchphrases

I caught a suckerfish! I thought it was a shark! Oh, wait - now I get it. "Sucker"...

Blathers Information

The suckerfish is a curious fish that likes to attach itself with its sucker mouth to larger marine animals. The benefit to the suckerfish is that it gets to eat smaller parasites and dead skin off the host's body. Amusingly, some people have used suckerfish on cords to catch large turtles with the fish's own suction! I imagine this practice is the cause of some awkward conversations between fish and turtle, eh wot