They are primarily a schooling fish when younger, traveling in groups of 10 or more.
In on the whole presence, the permit is a brightly silver fish with gloom fins and a dim or radiant blue to greenish or faded back. The midsection is regularly yellowish, and frequently the pelvic fins and the front projection of the butt-centric fin have an orange tint. Numerous people have a dim, round dark domain on the sides antiquated of the pectoral fins, but also some have a gloomy midbody smudge.