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About Honeycomb Filefish
Yellow-tan body with distinctive dark hexagonal or honeycomb-pattern spots covering the head and body. Small mouth, compressed body shape typical of filefish, and a venomous dorsal spine.
Key facts
- Care Level
- Moderate
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Min tank size
- 75 gallons
- Difficulty Level
- Moderate - Requires some experience due to specific dietary water or tank requirements. Best suited for intermediate aquarists.
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Diet Details
- Primarily a benthic carnivore feeding on small crustaceans, nudibranchs, sponges, and copepods in the wild. In captivity, offer a varied diet of frozen mysis shrimp, small crustaceans, and quality prepared foods designed for small predatory fish.
- Reef safety
- Not Reef Safe
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific region from East Africa and the Red Sea through Southeast Asia to the Hawaiian Islands and French Polynesia.
- Appearance
- Yellow-tan body with distinctive dark hexagonal or honeycomb-pattern spots covering the head and body. Small mouth, compressed body shape typical of filefish, and a venomous dorsal spine.
- Care Requirements
- • 75+ gallon tank with plenty of swimming space • Stable water parameters: 72–78°F, pH 8.1–8.4, sg 1.020–1.025 • Varied diet: frozen and prepared foods; grazes on algae and small inverts • Peaceful temperament but may nip soft corals and small ornamental invertebrates • Requires hiding spots and live rock refuges
- Feeding Schedule
- 1-2 times daily
- Max Size
- 7
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