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Red-tailed ButterflyfishPakistani Butterflyfish Family: Chaetodontidae
The Red-tailed Butterflyfish or Pakistani Butterflyfish is a beautiful butterfly fish!Though you can often find the Red-tailed Butterflyfish or Pakistani Butterflyfish available for your marine aquarium, it can be a difficult fish to keep. It likes to eat coral polyps which are a difficult food to provide unless you keep a reef, and if you keep a reef, you probably don't want your corals eaten. For more Information on keeping marine fish see:
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| Geographic Distribution Chaetodon collare |
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Maintenance difficulty:
The Red-tailed Butterflyfish or Pakistani Butterflyfish is
generally difficult to keep. This is probably because their natural diet
consists mainly of coral polyps.
Maintenance:
Try feeding a good angel or spirulina formula. They may eat
live brine shrimp but will not thrive on that diet alone.
Foods:
Mainly coral polyps.
Social Behaviors:
Found singly, in pairs, and groups. Can be aggressive towards
other members of its own or other species.
Sex: Sexual differences:
Unknown.
Light: Recommended light levels:
No special requirements.
Breeding/Reproduction:
Not accomplished in captivity. See Breeding
Marine Fish page for a description of how they reproduce in the wild.
Temperature:
No special requirements.
Length/Diameter of fish:
Red-tailed Butterflyfish or Pakistani Butterflyfish adults
can grow to 16 cm ( 6.4 inches).
Minimum Tank Length/Size:
A minimum 40 gallon aquarium is recommended.
Water Movement: Weak, Moderate, Strong
No special requirements.
Water Region: Top, Middle, Bottom
No special requirements.
Availability:
This fish is generally readily available.
Comments from people who have kept this fish:
I think, instead of buying large butterfly and angelfish, it will be wise to buy small and make them grow in our aquarium. Large fishes are more delicate and get stressed easily. However I may be wrong. But according to me 'Always buy small fishes'.....
i think people should buy butterflyfish at an adult size such as copperband falculas, collareds, and raccoons. at that size they will be easyer to keep due to their being darker in colour, fatter, tuffer, easier to feed, and bigger to look at.
i think people should buy emperor angelfish and koran angelfish as adults 8 inches. they will be very dark in colour since they have come from the wild at that size. growing juveniles will never be nice in colour but still worth the dear money-£100 to £125 to £200
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Author: David Brough. CFS.
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