Butterflyfish ID Help!
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Rmckoy
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I was originally thinking Klein’s butterflyfish .
but found another one
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu
but found another one
Reef Butterflyfish
Chaetodon sedentarius This is the more rectangular shaped of the butterfly fish that inhabit the Western Atlantic. It has a black bar down its face and another down the posterior of its body and fins, with yellow on its fins and a yellow tail. Like other butterfly fish, it lives around the coral
ScottR
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Beat me to it hahaI was originally thinking Klein’s butterflyfish .
but found another one
Reef Butterflyfish
Chaetodon sedentarius This is the more rectangular shaped of the butterfly fish that inhabit the Western Atlantic. It has a black bar down its face and another down the posterior of its body and fins, with yellow on its fins and a yellow tail. Like other butterfly fish, it lives around the coral
Rmckoy
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As we all have experienced before .
not many butterflyfish are reef safe and if they are now , they have potential to turn to coral munchers eventually .
a lot of lfs will order any butterflyfish as they are beautiful fish and will sell ,
But their mortality rate is high
not many butterflyfish are reef safe and if they are now , they have potential to turn to coral munchers eventually .
a lot of lfs will order any butterflyfish as they are beautiful fish and will sell ,
But their mortality rate is high
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arice22
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Hopefully she will be okay, it’s been a few weeks now. Her and my coral beauty have been great. As for eating coral they did eat a small micromussa but they haven’t touched anything else so I’m okay with that.
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arice22
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Spot on, the pictures look exactly like her!
