Austrailian Dottyback

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Reef enthusiast
FAMILY - Cyprinodontiformes

SCIENTIFIC NAME - Ogilbyina Novaehollandia

COMMON NAME - Australian Dottyback

SIZE - 3.9" (10 cm)

RANGE - Southern Great Barrier Reef

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

FOODS AND FEEDING - Varied diet of marine meaty fare live and frozen, fish chopped up, crustacean flesh, mysid shrimp, feed daily.

AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - 10

REEF COMPATIBILITY - Will eat smaller docile tankmates, crustaceans, bristleworms, small mantis shrimps.

CAPTIVE CARE - Will attack most anything that enters its domain, do not house with docile species or other dottybacks. With caution can be kept with squirrelfishes, soldierfishes, larger angelfishes, hawkfishes, surgeonfishes, triggerfishes. Keep only one per tank.

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