Falcula Butterfly - Chaetodon falcula Size:LargeFalcula Butterflyfish (Chaetodon falcula) The Falcula Butterflyfish is a striking Indian Ocean butterflyfish with a bright white body, yellow dorsal and rear fin areas, fine vertical striping and two bold black wedge shaped markings across the upper body. Also known as the Blackwedged Butterflyfish or Saddleback Butterflyfish, it is an elegant and active marine fish best suited to a spacious, mature fish only or FOWLR style aquarium. Although
but they are not guaranteed coral safe
Special Requirements or Care Notes:Best kept in a mature marine aquarium with stable water quality
southern Japan including the Izu Islands to the Philippines and reported from Palau
This species is brownish anteriorly and somewhat dusky on two thirds of body posteriorly
Scribbled Boxfish (Ostracion solorense)
The males maintain a solitary breeding territory
and median fins have bluish white edges
and their active swimming and social interactions provide an engaging dynamic to the aquarium
Mature males are especially impressive
from the Andaman Sea through parts of Southeast Asia to southern Japan
mature rockwork and a varied sponge-based diet
their sand-sifting and burrowing behaviour can disturb low-placed corals
