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About Longsnout Butterflyfish
A small, slender butterflyfish with a distinctive elongated snout used for picking food from crevices. Body coloration is pale yellow to white with thin vertical dark bars; the snout and anterior head are bright yellow.
Key facts
- Difficulty Level
- Moderate - Requires some experience due to specific dietary water or tank requirements. Best suited for intermediate aquarists.
- Diet Details
- Feed a varied diet of high-quality marine flakes, small pellets, and frequent live or frozen foods including mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, and small crustaceans. Target feeding with small portions at multiple times daily may be necessary to ensure adequate intake.
- Reef safety
- Reef Safe with Caution
- Care Requirements
- • 75+ gallon tank for a mated pair; 55g minimum for single fish • Stable water: pH 8.1–8.3, SG 1.023–1.025, 74–78°F • Plenty of live rock caves and overhangs for shelter and feeding territories • Feed varied diet: small crustaceans, frozen mysis, quality flake foods 2–3× daily • May nip at soft corals and LPS; best with hardier corals and small polyps
- Temperament
- Semi Aggressive
- Care Level
- Moderate
- Diet
- omnivore
- Common Health Issues
- Marine ich, Fin Rot, Swim Bladder Disorder, Bacterial Infections, Fungal Diseases
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific region, including the Red Sea and throughout tropical coral reef systems from East Africa to the central Pacific.
- Min tank size
- 70 gallons
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 72-82°F pH: 8.1-8.3 Salinity: 1.02-1.025
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
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