FAMILY - Chactodontidae
SCIENTIFIC NAME - Chaetodon Kleinii
COMMON NAME - Klein's Butterflyfish (Brown Butterflyfish, Coralicola Butterflyfish, Blacklip Butterflyfish)
SIZE - 5.5" (14 cm)
RANGE - Indo Pacific
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 55 US Gal. (208 L)
FOODS AND FEEDING - Marine fish, crustacean flesh, mysid shrimp, frozen preparations. Feed min. 3 times a day.
AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - 10
REEF COMPATIBILITY - If well fed can be kept in reef aquarium, coral tankmates must be carefully chosen, best kept with the more noxious soft corals, will eat leather coral polyps.
CAPTIVE CARE - One of the most durable member of the butterfly family, great beginners butterflyfish, once acclimated will accept most any food offered, a varied diet is a must for health and coloration, can be kept with other butterflyfish and members of its own species if all are introduced at the same time, can be housed with moderately aggressive fish, aggessive tankmates must be introduced last.
SCIENTIFIC NAME - Chaetodon Kleinii
COMMON NAME - Klein's Butterflyfish (Brown Butterflyfish, Coralicola Butterflyfish, Blacklip Butterflyfish)
SIZE - 5.5" (14 cm)
RANGE - Indo Pacific
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 55 US Gal. (208 L)
FOODS AND FEEDING - Marine fish, crustacean flesh, mysid shrimp, frozen preparations. Feed min. 3 times a day.
AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - 10
REEF COMPATIBILITY - If well fed can be kept in reef aquarium, coral tankmates must be carefully chosen, best kept with the more noxious soft corals, will eat leather coral polyps.
CAPTIVE CARE - One of the most durable member of the butterfly family, great beginners butterflyfish, once acclimated will accept most any food offered, a varied diet is a must for health and coloration, can be kept with other butterflyfish and members of its own species if all are introduced at the same time, can be housed with moderately aggressive fish, aggessive tankmates must be introduced last.
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