Common Name: Brown / Horned / Humphead Bannerfish
Species Name: Heniochus varius (Cuvier, 1829)
Range: Widespread in the Western Pacific
Size: up to 10 inches (25 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit areas near cave and occur in shallow depths of 6 to 50 feet (2 - 15 m)
General Husbandry: Require a temperature of 77 - 82°F (25 - 28°C) and their natural diet consists mainly of plankton. Will accept a wide variety of foodstuffs, including fortified brine shrimp, mysis, and chopped fish and shrimp flesh. Include some frozen herbivore foods in its diet. Should have two or three feedings per day. Not reef safe!
Aquarium Suitability: * *
Anemonefishes - Angelfishes - Anthias - Assessors - Bannerfish - Basslets (Dottybacks and Grammas) - Batfishes - Blennies - Boxfishes - Butterflyfishes - Cardinalfishes - Catfishes - Convict Blenny - Cuttlefish - Damselfishes - Dartfishes - Drums - Dragonets - Eels - Filefishes - Flashlight fishes - Flatheads - Frogfishes - Goatfishes - Gobies - Groupers - Hamlets - Hawkfishes - Helmut Gurnards - Jacks - Jawfishes - Lion fishes - Livebearing Brotula - Lizardfishes - Mollies - Moorish Idol - Parrotfishes - Pinecone fishes - Pipefishes - Porcupine fishes - Pufferfishes - Rabbitfishes - Rays - Sand Perches - Scats - Scorpionfishes - Seabasses - Seahorses - Sea Moths - Sharks - Shrimpfishes - Snappers - Soldierfishes - Spinecheeks - Squirrelfishes - Surgeonfishes (Tangs) - Sweetlips - Tilefishes - Triggerfishes - Trumpetfishes - Wrasses
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* - Suited for the reef aquarium;
** - Better suited for the fish-only aquarium;
*** - Better left in nature;
**** - Needing an aquarium larger than 125 gallons; and,
***** - Needing their own private environment/special tankmates.