Common Name: Orangetail Dottyback
Species Name: Pseudochromis coccinicauda (Tickell, 1888)
Range: Western Pacific Ocean: Laccadine Islands to Indonesia
Size: up to 2.5 inches (6 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit small caves and crevices at depths of 3 to over 60 feet (1 - 20 m)
General Husbandry: Prefer a temperature range of 72 - 83° F (22 - 28°C) and their natural diet consists mainly of zooplankton and benthic crustaceans. May eat small shrimps or attack small fishes. Probably better kept with larger fish as it can be quite aggressive to fishes its size and smaller.
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.