Common Name: Darkstriped Dottyback
Species Name: Labracinus melanotaenia (Bleeker, 1852)
Range: Western Pacific Ocean
Size: up to 8 inches (20 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit small caves and crevices in shallow reefs
General Husbandry: Prefer a temperature range of 72 - 79° F (22 - 26°C) and natural diet consist mainly of zooplankton and benthic crustaceans. Feed enriched meaty/freeze-dried foodstuffs and one to two feeding per week should suffice. They far too aggressive to be kept with fish its own size or smaller. In fact, it's a 'terror' and can not be trusted in with anything less dominating than eels, groupers and triggerfishes!
Aquarium Suitability: * * * * *
Anemonefishes - Angelfishes - Anthias - Assessors - Bannerfish - Basslets (Dottybacks and Grammas) - Batfishes - Blennies - Boxfishes - Brotulas - Butterflyfishes - Cardinalfishes - Catfishes - Cuttlefish - Damselfishes - Dartfishes - Dragonets - Drums - 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.