Common Name: Magenta Dottyback
Species Name: Pictichromis porphyreus Lubbock & Goldman, 1974
Range: West Pacific Ocean: Philippines to Samoa, Ryukyu Islands, Moluccas and Admiralty Islands, and Palau and the Caroline Islands in Micronesia
Size: up to 2 inches (5 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit small caves and crevices at depths between 20 to 200 feet (5 - 60 m)
General Husbandry: Prefer a temperature range of 75 - 79° F (24 - 26°C) and natural diet consist mainly of zooplankton and benthic crustaceans. May eat small shrimp. Feed meaty/freeze-dried foodstuffs. A pretty fish, but can be very aggressive, even to larger fishes. One to aquarium, even in large aquariums! Probably not a good addition to aquariums containing gobies, wrasses, and other somewhat small and peaceful fishes.
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.