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About Eastern Triangular Butterflyfish
Chaetodon baronessa displays the distinctive triangular body shape characteristic of butterflyfish, with a yellow-gold coloration across the head, dorsal fin, and anal fin. A prominent black diagonal stripe runs from the nape through the eye, and the rear body and tail are marked with dark vertical bars and a dark posterior margin, creating a striking high-contrast pattern.
Key facts
- Difficulty Level
- Moderate difficulty. The Eastern Triangular Butterflyfish requires stable water conditions, a varied diet, and careful acclimation, but is more hardy than some other butterflyfish species when properly established in a mature reef system.
- Diet Details
- In captivity, offer a varied diet including high-quality marine flakes, small pellets, frozen mysid shrimp, and finely chopped seafood. Supplement with vegetable matter such as spirulina or nori sheets. Feed twice daily in appropriate portion sizes.
- Reef safety
- Reef Safe with Caution
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Care Requirements
- • Minimum 70-gallon aquarium; 100+ gallons preferred • Temp 72-78°F, pH 8.1-8.3, SG 1.020-1.025 • Requires coral-rich reef with plenty of hiding spots • Feed varied diet: small crustaceans, copepods, mysis, spirulina • Can be aggressive toward similar butterflyfish; keep singly or as mated pair
- Care Level
- Moderate
- Diet
- omnivore
- Common Health Issues
- Marine velvet, ich, parasitic infections, fin rot
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific region from the Great Barrier Reef and Indonesia eastward to the Line Islands and Marshall Islands, primarily in tropical coral reef environments.
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 72-78°F pH: 8.1-8.3 Salinity: 1.02-1.025
- Min tank size
- 75 gallons
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