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Fivelined cardinalfish

Name : Fivelined cardinalfish
Species : Cardinals
 

FAMILY - Perciformes

SCIENTIFIC NAME - Chellodipterus Quinquelineatus

COMMON NAME - Fivelined Cardinalfish

SIZE - 4.7" (12 cm)

RANGE - Indo Pacific

MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 30 US Gal. (114 L)

FOODS AND FEEDING - Small chopped marine fare, live baby buppies, grass shrimp, and frozen brine shrimp, frozen preparations for carnivores

AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - 8

REEF COMPATIBILITY - Will eat small snails, crabs, shrimps, and fish

CAPTIVE CARE - Keep only one per tank, introduce after more passive tankmates are acclimated, will feed day and night, spends most of its time in the open, provide hiding places, younger fish will spend time in the tentacles of sea anemones, or long spine urchins, keep only with fish its own size or larger and with passive tankmates.

Fivelined cardinalfish
 

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