FAMILY - Cyprinodontiformes
SCIENTIFIC NAME - Labracinus Melanotaenia
COMMON NAME - Spotfin Dottyback
SIZE - 7.8" (20 cm)
RANGE - Western Pacific
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 30 US Gal (114 L)
FOODS AND FEEDING - Feed a varied diet of frozen and live marine meaty fare, fish, crustacean flesh, mysid shrimp. Feed daily.
AQUARIUM SUITABILITY -10
REEF COMPATIBILITY - Will eat smaller docile fishes and crustaceans, pestilent species in reef aquariums such as bristleworms, small mantis shrimps.
CAPTIVE CARE - A potentially destructive fish in the community tank, do not house with smaller passive fish or other dottybacks. Can be housed with eels, large squirrelfishes, groupers, snappers, larger angelfishes, large hawkfishes, triggerfishes. Keep singly or a proven mated pair in a larger aquarium.
SCIENTIFIC NAME - Labracinus Melanotaenia
COMMON NAME - Spotfin Dottyback
SIZE - 7.8" (20 cm)
RANGE - Western Pacific
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 30 US Gal (114 L)
FOODS AND FEEDING - Feed a varied diet of frozen and live marine meaty fare, fish, crustacean flesh, mysid shrimp. Feed daily.
AQUARIUM SUITABILITY -10
REEF COMPATIBILITY - Will eat smaller docile fishes and crustaceans, pestilent species in reef aquariums such as bristleworms, small mantis shrimps.
CAPTIVE CARE - A potentially destructive fish in the community tank, do not house with smaller passive fish or other dottybacks. Can be housed with eels, large squirrelfishes, groupers, snappers, larger angelfishes, large hawkfishes, triggerfishes. Keep singly or a proven mated pair in a larger aquarium.
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