In the species S. nigricans, females usually mate with a single male each morning during spawning seasons.
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Female size is significantly correlated with ovary weight, and males intensify their courtship rituals for the more fecund females.
The visibility is well up to 30 meters which a favourite World War II wreckage of US Catalina seaplane is preserved with anglefish, lionfish, damselfish and other smaller fish swim around the wreckage.
The one-spot puller (in New Zealand) or brown puller (in Australia), Chromis hypsilepis, is a damselfish of the genus Chromis, found off south-east Australia and between North Cape and East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand to depths of about 60 metres, off rocky coasts.
It earns its name from the black-striped tail and sides, which are reminiscent of the insignia of a military Sergeant, being similar to those of the Sergeant Major damselfish.