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About Purple Tilefish
The Purple Tilefish displays a striking violet-purple coloration on its head and body, with distinctive orange-red coloring on the gill plates and edges of fins. The body is elongated and laterally compressed, with a characteristic upturned mouth adapted for picking food from the substrate.
Key facts
- Appearance
- The Purple Tilefish displays a striking violet-purple coloration on its head and body, with distinctive orange-red coloring on the gill plates and edges of fins. The body is elongated and laterally compressed, with a characteristic upturned mouth adapted for picking food from the substrate.
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 72-78°F pH: 8-8.3 Salinity: 1.023-1.025
- Family
- Malacanthidae
- Difficulty Level
- Moderate - Requires some experience due to specific dietary water or tank requirements. Best suited for intermediate aquarists.
- Reef safety
- Reef Safe
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Diet
- carnivore
- Diet Details
- Feed small meaty foods including finely chopped preparations of shrimp, fish, and zooplankton. Offer mysis shrimp and small pieces of frozen seafood 2-3 times daily. These fish are micropredators and require frequent small meals rather than large feedings.
- Max Size
- 6
- Min tank size
- 75 gallons
- Care Level
- Expert
- Care Requirements
- • 75+ gallon tank with open sand bed for burrowing • Stable water: 72–78°F, pH 8.1–8.3, low nitrate • Provide fine sand substrate and rubble for shelter • Feed high-quality frozen foods (mysis, copepods) • Nocturnal; minimizes predation risk in peaceful tanks
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